MESSENGER Mercury Flyby
On Monday, Jan. 14, a pioneering NASA spacecraft was the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years when it soared over the planet to explore…
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Mars Spirit Rover Stationery on Mars for Good
Jan. 26, 2010: After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot.…
Read the article →Mars Close Encounter
It rises in the east at sunset, pumpkin-orange and brighter than a first magnitude star. You stare at it, unblinking. Unblinking, it stares right back. It…
Read the article →Annular Solar Eclipse Coming Up on Jan 15th
The Moon is about to pass directly in front of the sun, producing an annular solar eclipse on Jan. 15th between 05:00 and 09:00 GMT. The…
Read the article →James Webb Telescope Planet Search
An artist’s concept of an exoplanet. Image credit: ESO. January 14, 2010: The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope, will launch…
Read the article →Curious Asteroid Flyby on Jan 13th
A curious object is about to fly past Earth only one-third the distance to the Moon. Cataloged as a 10m-class asteroid, 2010 AL30 has an orbital…
Read the article →Frozen Britain and Not So Frozen Ireland
This striking image taken by NASA’s Terra satellite on 7 January shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current cold snap. While the UK…
Read the article →Kepler Space Telecope Discovers Five Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond…
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