After 17 years away, NASA’s sun-studying spacecraft will visit Earth on Aug. 12
A groundbreaking NASA spacecraft will return to Earth on Saturday (Aug. 12) after 17 years away from home. One-half of ...
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Alien’s-eye view of the Milky Way: Our galaxy is unusual but not unique
Astronomers have now deduced what alien scientists might see when they gaze at the Milky Way from afar. The new ...
Viral YouTube video explains NASA’s search for alien life
A new viral video details the efforts that NASA is making to find out whether we are alone in the ...
“End of an Era” – NASA Shuts Down Mineral Mapping Instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
One of six instruments aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CRISM produced global maps of minerals on the Red Planet’s ...
Venus grade: NASA seeks a lander battery tough enough to survive Earth’s evil twin
A new NASA video makes the case that Venus is Earth's "evil twin." The nefarious moniker is revealed to be, ...
NASA rover snaps photos of ancient ‘waves’ carved into Mars mountainside
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has photographed rocks imprinted with tiny ripples from an ancient lake. And these tiny ripples are ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has established a historic Mars sample depot
In a recent breakthrough by NASA, ten sample tubes, each containing a unique piece of Martian geology, have been left ...
NASA’s Fermi detects first gamma-ray eclipses from ‘spider’ star systems
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA's Fermi ...
A Bear Face was spotted on Mars. Here’s how that happened
Social media is abuzz with a picture of a bear taken not on Earth but on our neighborly planet Mars. ...
NASA Moon mission ‘exceeding’ expectaions
On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "exceeding performance expectations," ...