The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the winners of an international public contest called Hubble’s Hidden Treasures. Budding amateur astronomers were invited to create beautiful…
Read the articleNASA is helping pigs and birds explore the Martian terrain and shed light on the agency’s missions to the Red Planet in the latest update to…
Read the articleNASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author Ray Bradbury1. Making its…
Read the articleA simulated mission to an asteroid is under way at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Research and Technology Studies (RATS) test, a 10-day asteroid…
Read the articleThirty-five years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 467 Nova Monocerotis 2012 = PNV J06393874+0553520 August 21, 2012 Discovered by: Shigehisa Fujikawa (Kanonji City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, reported by Mitsuru Soma,…
Read the articleSome 135 years after its discovery, Mars’ largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail – and in 3D – in an image taken by ESA’s…
Read the articleOn August 19th, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a…
Read the articleA new NASA video shows the cloud of dust that rose from the surface of the Red Planet after the Curiosity rover’s heat shield hit the…
Read the articleThe scientists and engineers of NASA’s Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The target area, named…
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