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The Pale Blue Dot: Now New and Improved
Thirty years have now passed since the Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped one of the most iconic and memorable pictures in…
If We’re Searching for Earth 2.0, Would We Know It When We Find It?
In a new paper, two professors consider what we have learned from studying Earth from space, and how this might…
New Horizons Just Took a Record Breaking Image. No Camera Has Ever Taken a Picture From This Far From Earth
This past December, the New Horizons probe took a series of pictures from the Kuiper Belt, thus breaking the record…
Perhaps the Best Part of Electron’s Successful Launch was its Payload: the Humanity Star
Rocket Lab's second successful launch of the Electron rocket carried with it a special piece of cargo - the Humanity…
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25 Years Since Voyager’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Images
A quarter of a century has passed since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped the iconic image of Earth known as…
New Research Suggests Better Ways To Seek Out Pale Blue Dots
The search for worlds beyond our own is one of humankind's greatest quests. Scientists have found thousands of exoplanets orbiting…
Cassini’s View of Another Pale Blue Dot
When you hear the words "pale blue dot" you're probably reminded of the famous quote by Carl Sagan inspired by…
10 Historic Moments in Voyager’s Journey to Interstellar Space
Yesterday, NASA announced that as of August 2012, Voyager 1 is in a new frontier to humanity: interstellar space. Our…
What the Earth and Moon Look Like From Saturn
Did you smile and wave at Saturn on Friday? If you did (and even if you didn't) here's how you…
Say Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth
Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn…