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How an Ancient Angled Impact Created Vesta’s Groovy Belt
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Vesta in July 2011, two features immediately jumped out at planetary scientists who had been so…
Antares Explosion Investigation Focuses on First Stage Propulsion Failure
NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA - Investigators probing the Antares launch disaster are focusing on clues pointing to a failure…
Welcome to Mars! – Hi-SEAS and Mars Society Kick Off New Season of Missions
The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (aka. Hi-SEAS) - a human spaceflight analog for Mars located on the slopes of…
Launch Pad Damage Discernible in Aftermath of Catastrophic Antares Launch Failure – Exclusive Photos
Damage is visible to Launch Pad 0A following catastrophic failure of Orbital Sciences Antares rocket moments after liftoff from NASA’s…
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 31, 2014: Bad Week in Space
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Ken Kremer (kenkremer.com /…
A History of Launch Failures: “Not Because They are Easy, but Because They are Hard”
Over the 50-plus years since President John F. Kennedy’s Rice University speech, spaceflight has proven to be hard. It doesn't…
Antares Launch Calamity Unfolds – Dramatic Photo Sequence
Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket explodes violently and is consumed in a gigantic aerial fireball seconds after blastoff from NASA’s Wallops…
Cassini Probe Spots Methane Ice Crystals In Titan’s Atmosphere
During its 2006 flyby of Titan, the Cassini Space Probe captured some of the most detailed images of Saturn's largest…
Catastrophic Failure Dooms Antares Launch to Space Station – Gallery
NASA WALLOPS FLIGHT FACILITY, VA - Moments after a seemingly glorious liftoff, an Orbital Sciences Corp. commercial Antares rocket suffered…
100,000 Ice Blocks Mapped Out at the South Pole … of Enceladus
Ever since the Cassini space probe conducted its first flyby of Enceladus in 2005, the strange Saturnian moon has provided…