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New Horizons Spacecraft ‘Stays the Course’ for Pluto System Encounter
Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its…
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Spectacular Billion Pixel Panorama from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover
This is a cropped, reduced version of panorama from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution…
Did a Piece of Mir Really Land in Massachusetts?
We love a good space debris mystery. Hey, who doesn't, right? Regular readers of Universe Today know that it’s a…
Say Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth
Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn…
NASA Names First Astronaut Class for Deep Space Exploration
On Monday, NASA introduced eight new astronaut candidates – four women and four men – who will “help the agency…
Black Hole Bonanza! Dozens (Potentially) Found In Andromeda As Another Study Probes X-Rays
More than two DOZEN potential black holes have been found in the nearest galaxy to our own. As if that…
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Curiosity Gets Set for Epic Drive after Laser Blasting Mars Watery Secrets
Ten months after her breathtaking touchdown on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover is nearly set to embark on an…
Navy Researchers Put Dark Lightning to the SWORD
Discovered "by accident" by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful -- yet invisible…
An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds
The season for noctilucent "night-shining" clouds is arriving in the northern hemisphere, when wispy, glowing tendrils of high-altitude ice crystals…
10 Years & Top 10 Discoveries from Marvelous Mars Express
This week marks the 10th anniversary since the launch of the European Space Agencies’ (ESA) Mars Express orbiter from the…