Missions
Curiosity Rover Acting as Stunt Double for Humans
En route to the Red Planet, Mars rover Curiosity has experienced the strongest solar radiation storm since 2005. No need…
Phoenix Lander Still Visible in New HiRISE Images from Mars
[/caption] I spy Phoenix! said the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter! This new image acquired on January…
A Bouncing Moon Boulder
[/caption] One solitary boulder on the Moon apparently decided to take a little journey. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured…
Incredible 3-D View Inside a Martian Crater
[/caption] This is why I always keep a pair of 3-D glasses by my computer. This well-preserved crater on Mars…
Can We Land On a Comet?
The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way…
GRAIL Sends Back First Video of the Moon’s Far Side
A first look from GRAIL, showing the lunar far side! A camera aboard ‘Ebb’ -- one of NASA's twin Gravity…
Casting Swords into Space Observatories
[/caption] Editor’s note – Bruce Dorminey is a science journalist and author of Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond…
IBEX Captures ‘Alien’ Material From Beyond Our Solar System
[/caption] If we could board the starship Enterprise-D and were able to look through Giordi LaForge's visor we might be…
Phobos-Grunt Failure Due to Computer Problems, Cosmic Rays
[/caption] Roscosmos said today that a computer malfunction caused by cosmic rays was the reason for the failure of the…
NASA’s New Eyes in the Sky
[/caption] On March 14, NASA will launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR. This is the first time a…