Space Exploration
The Perfect Holiday Gift: The Year In Space Calendar 2015!
Here's our most-recommended holiday gift every year: The Year In Space Calendar! And for 2015 it's back, it's big and…
Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Takes A Small Step To Seek Habitable Worlds
It takes years of painstaking work to get a spacecraft off the ground. So when you have a spacecraft like…
Dawn Spacecraft Will Take Pictures Of Its Target Dwarf Planet Today
The year 2015 is going to be a big one for far-off spacecraft. Among them is the long-running Dawn mission,…
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Probing Pluto’s Paltry Atmosphere Using A Solar Eclipse And Spacecraft
Pluto is so far away from us and so tiny that it's hard to glean even basic facts about it.…
Delaying Death: Mercury Spacecraft Firing Engines To Stay Up Until 2015
Don't take these spectacular Mercury images (below the jump) for granted. Three weeks ago, NASA's orbiting Mercury spacecraft did an…
Beam Me Up, Mars! Uwingu Will Send 90,000 Radio Messages There Today
Maybe you can't climb on a rocketship to Mars, at least yet, but at the least you can get your…
Rocket Remains? Video Shows ‘Pieces Of Whatever’ Flaming High Above Belgrade
Just before dawn on Wednesday (Nov. 26), a pilot in Belgrade caught this stunning video of a "huge number of…
‘Meteoric Smoke’: Comet Siding Spring Could Alter Mars Chemistry Permanently
Feeling lucky? Events such as the Comet Siding Spring approach by Mars in October only happen about once every eight…
Venus Express Spacecraft, Low On Fuel, Does Delicate Dance Above Doom Below
It's been an interesting year for Venus Express. A few months ago, controllers deliberately dipped the spacecraft into the atmosphere…
How Do Astronauts Celebrate Thanksgiving On The Space Station?
As Americans get ready for turkey feasts and other Thanksgiving goodies today, let's take a few moments to think about…