Space Exploration
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…
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,…
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Rosetta Arrives at ‘Scientific Disneyland’ for Ambitious Study of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after 10 Year Voyage
The image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August 2014 from a distance of…
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…
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…
Where Exactly Is Pluto? Pinpoint Precision Needed For New Horizons Mission
When you have a spacecraft that takes the better part of a decade to get to its destination, it's really,…
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Rosetta on Final Approach to Historic Comet Rendezvous – Watch Live Here
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft on final approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in early August 2014. This collage of navcam imagery from Rosetta…
Rosetta Probe Swoops Closer to Comet Destination than ISS is to Earth and Reveals Exquisite Views
Europe’s Rosetta comet hunter achieved another milestone today, Aug 4, swooping in closer to its long sought destination than the…
Rosetta Orbiter less than 500 Kilometers from Comet 67P Following Penultimate Trajectory Burn
The Rosetta comet chaser is currently less than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from its target destination, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko following today’s…
Ranger 7 Takes 1st Image of the Moon by a US Spacecraft 50 Years Ago – July 31, 1964
As we remember the 45th anniversary of Earth’s historic 1st manned lunar landing last week by America’s Apollo 11 crew…