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This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover’s activities included scuffing into … More

This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover’s activities included scuffing into … More

What’s going on with our robotic planetary missions? In February I count more than 20 planetary spacecraft exploring six targets … More

Independence Plaza, a new exhibit at Space Center Houston, lets visitors walk inside the aircraft that ferried the space shuttle … More

Everyone has started to call this new proposed planet X: "Planet nine" as in the original announcement. Even Wikipedia has … More

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratary has created an enhanced color animation of Ceres that highlights the differences in surface material. NASA’s … More

Martin Bojowald, a professor of phycics at Penn State University, presents his fascinating ideas about “Loop Quantum Cosmology” in Once … More

NASA Television will broadcast live coverage of a 5.5-hour spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station beginning … More

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately … More