Mars Rovers Survive Dust Storms
Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA’s Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity’s…
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Life and Work on the Moon
A new NASA contest encourages university art and design students to partner with science and engineering departments to create art representative of living and working on…
Read the article →Mars Approaching Earth
By the time you finish reading this sentence, you’ll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars. Earth and Mars are converging, and right now the…
Read the article →Lunar Eclipse: August 28 2007
Close your eyes, breath deeply, let your mind wander to a distant seashore: It’s late in the day, and the western sun is sinking into the…
Read the article →Star Ware Book Review
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Read the article →Piranha Black Holes
Deep in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy lurks an extraordinary black hole. Astronomers call it “supermassive.” It has been feeding on the core of…
Read the article →Robots Practice Moon Survey
Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could…
Read the article →Mars Rovers Braving Sever Dust Storms
Having explored Mars for three-and-a-half years in what were missions originally designed for three months, NASA’s Mars rovers are facing perhaps their biggest challenge. For nearly…
Read the article →New View of Venus
NASA’s Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, known as Messenger, and the European Space Agency’s Venus Express recently provided the most detailed multi-point images…
Read the article →NASA Announces New Spacecraft Assignments
Two NASA spacecraft now have new assignments after successfully completing their missions. The duo will make new observations of comets and characterize extrasolar planets. Stardust and…
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