Solar System
‘Explore Mars’ Group Wants To Build Instrument Seeking Subsurface Red Planet Life
Not-for-profit group Explore Mars has a new IndieGoGo campaign that could see an instrument, ExoLance, head to the Red Planet…
Rosetta’s Comet Is Too Hot For Complete Ice Surface, Spacecraft En Route Reveals
Anyone eager for a comet countdown? It's just a few days now until the Rosetta spacecraft arrives near Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko…
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NASA Announces Science Instruments for Mars 2020 Rover Expedition to the Red Planet
NASA announced the winners of the high stakes science instrument competition to fly aboard the Mars 2020 rover at a…
New Image of Rosetta’s Comet Reveals So Much More
WOW! We're really getting to the good stuff now! This is no computer-generated shape model, this is the real deal:…
If You Mine An Asteroid, Who Does The Property Belong To?
There have been several proposals in recent months to visit asteroids -- NASA is talking about sending astronauts to an…
Scientists Discover 101 Geysers Erupting at Saturn’s Intriguing Icy Moon Enceladus
Scientists analyzing the reams of data from NASA’s Cassini orbiter at Saturn have discovered 101 geysers erupting from the intriguing…
Venus Express Survives Close Encounter With Hellish Atmosphere
It was a daring maneuver, but the plan to put Venus Express lower in the planet's thick atmosphere has worked.…
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Book Review: Neil Armstrong – A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
“Neil Armstrong - A Life of Flight” is a thoroughly enjoyable new biography about the first human to set foot…
NASA Spacecraft Is Now Buzzing Mercury 62 Miles Above The Surface
Look out below! NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is at its lowest altitude of any spacecraft above Mercury, and over the next…
Cool Infographic Compares the Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres
Here on Earth we enjoy the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere we've all come to know and love with each of the approximately 24,000…