Space Exploration
NASA SoundCloud Sounds Aim To Bring Music To The Final Frontier
Fancy having a shuttle launch play as your ringtone? NASA is trying to make that possible through offering several dozen…
Shortly After Mars Comet, NASA’s New Red Planet Spacecraft Officially Starts Mission
NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is "go" for at least a year -- and potentially longer. After taking a time-out from…
No ‘Rubber Duckie’! Rosetta’s Comet Looks Weird In Decade-Old Hubble Model
Okay, let's take a deep breath about Rosetta and remember just how far we've come since the mission arrived at…
OSIRIS-REx: The Audacious Plan To Scoop An Asteroid And Fly Back To Earth
We've been super-excited about the Philae landing recently, the first soft landing on a comet. But imagine if the spacecraft…
Smart Robots Could Build ‘Snow Forts’ On The Moon One Day
The Moon is so close to us, and yet so far. Just last year the Chang'e-3 spacecraft and Yutu rover…
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NASA’s RapidScat Ocean Wind Watcher Starts Earth Science Operations at Space Station
Barely two months after being launched to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA’s first science payload aimed at conducting Earth…
Philae’s Incredible Comet-Landing Sequence Shows Up In Fresh Rosetta Images
Wow! New images released from the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko show the spacecraft coming in for its (first) landing…
Infographic: The Rosetta Comet-Probing Mission Cost As Much As Four Jetliners
What price do you put on scientific discovery? From the way Twitter lit up last week when the Philae spacecraft…
Comet-Bouncing Philae Spacecraft Caught On Camera In Newly Enhanced Images
When the Philae lander arrived at its target comet last week, the little spacecraft landed three times in two hours…
Alone and Confused, Philae Breaks our Hearts
I was twelve years old when Columbia disintegrated. Space exploration was not even a particular interest of mine at the time,…