Search for Two Mars Landers to Continue
As our closest neighbor in the solar system, Mars is the planet which has been most closely studied. Over the years a number of spacecraft and landing craft have been…
NASA's WISE Telescope Aims to Identify New Asteroids
A number of objects can be seen in the night sky using only the naked eye and many more can be identified using a simple telescope. Observing the night sky…
New Planet Discovered Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star
The array of technical equipment that has been employed in recent years to study the universe includes many great innovations such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Sunrise Telescope.…
NASA's New Horizons Probe Is Approaching the Outer Solar System
NASA’s New Horizons probe is en route for the outer solar system. After scoring a spectacular flyby of Jupiter and its moons in 2007, the craft is now heading for…
Dawn Probe Approaches the Asteroid Belt
NASA’s Dawn mission is en route to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, the most massive of the protoplanets. It will go into orbit around Vesta first, gathering data on that…
Huge Aurora Identified above Saturn
Many people have been astounded by the beauty of the aurora borealis and aurora australis light displays which occur over the North and South Poles of Earth. These light shows…
Evidence Grows for an Ocean Inside Saturn's Moon, Enceladus
As the Cassini space probe continues to study Saturn and its system of moons, the evidence is mounting that one of those moons, Enceladus, may have liquid water beneath its…
IceBite Project Begins Drill Testing in Antarctica
When NASA’s Phoenix Lander touched down on the northern surface of Mars in May 2008, it landed on the very thing it had been sent to find: ice. Enough ice,…
Mercury Probe Performs Third Flyby
NASA’s MESSENGER space probe has just had its third and closest flyby of Mercury, and has sent back pictures and data that will help to fill in our understanding of…
The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Hits the High Seas
Life on earth began in the ocean, so it just stands to reason that if life exists on other planets it may be found not on the land but in…
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