Space Exploration

ISEE-3 Completes Lunar Flyby, Begins a Citizen Science Program

The journey began on August 12, 1978 from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II launch vehicle. Now after 36 years…

10 years ago

Curiosity Celebrates Two Years on Mars Approaching Bedrock of Mountain Climbing Destination

2 Years on Mars! Curiosity treks to Mount Sharp, her primary science destination, in this photo mosaic view captured on…

10 years ago

Watch This Prototype Mars Spacecraft Spin During A Supersonic Test

Feeling dizzy? This is what the view looked like from NASA's next-generation Mars spacecraft as the flying saucer-shaped vehicle did…

10 years ago

Amazing Telescopic Pictures Of The Space Station And A Cargo Ship Heading That Way

Here's your morning photographic space delight: the International Space Station and the last European automated transfer vehicle (ATV), Georges Lemaître,…

10 years ago

What’s Ahead for Rosetta – ‘Finding a Landing Strip’ on Bizarre Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Where would you land here? Newly released NAVCAM image taken by Rosetta on 5 August 2014 from a distance of…

10 years ago

Robot Spacecraft Swarm Among Group Tapped For More NASA Funding

How do crazy but neat ideas such as the Mars crane make it to space? It's through years, sometimes decades,…

10 years ago

The Latest Pictures From Mars Make Us Feel Spoiled

Don't you love it when close-up pictures come beaming to your computer from another planet? Below are some of the…

10 years ago

These Mercury Crater Pictures Look Like Amazing Abstract Art

We're lucky to have a spacecraft looking at Mercury and sending back information like this. NASA's MESSENGER satellite just beamed…

10 years ago