NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) probe successfully…
Have you seen this photo, supposedly showing the last image captured by the Cassini space probe before it crashed into…
If we don’t pump the brakes on climate change, all of Greenland could eventually melt, adding about 24 feet to global…
The Odyssey orbiter has been hovering above Mars, photographing its surface and taking data for 16 years now. There’s…
Yesterday morning, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slammed into the day side of Saturn, the brief flash of its vaporization…
Oh Florence, we really needed you this month. There’s a petulant species of brainy monkeys apes that just can’t seem to…
Back in June, after installing a new lithium-ion battery into its ape-inspired RoboSimian and plugging it into charge,…
The Dawn spacecraft has been hard at work orbiting Ceres, and over the last week, it’s sent back some stunning images…
It’s not often you see the United States Geological Survey and Jet Propulsion Laboratories get into a smackdown over…
We’ve reached the point of no return.
Right now, here’s how close we are to the events of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian actually happening: Not very. NASA…
In 2004, NASA landed its Opportunity rover on Mars. Initially intended to run for 90 days, it’s now spent 11 years…
Taking a spacecraft to the surface of an alien planet is hard enough, but it can be even more difficult to reach the…
During Microsoft's demo of its fascinating holographic headset HoloLens today, the company barely mentioned the coolest…
The Cassini Orbiter captures a different view of Saturn, in which the planet and its rings seem to vanish into…
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Europa, Jupiter's sixth-closest moon, has long been a source of fascination and wonder for astronomers. Not only is…
Put a man on the Moon? Sure. Establish a continuously orbiting zero-gravity laboratory? Easy. Parachute a rover onto…
With Rosetta hanging out so closely with an asteroid, we're getting better views than ever before of what the surface…
NASA's Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission…
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