Images from comet Hartley 2 flyby
The Deep Impact spacecraft successfully completed its second cometary encounter earlier today, this time a close flyby of comet Hartley 2, and has returned some …
The Deep Impact spacecraft successfully completed its second cometary encounter earlier today, this time a close flyby of comet Hartley 2, and has returned some …
Two more pieces of the water-on-Mars puzzle in the last few days… the Mars rover Spirit has found new evidence of liquid water having trickled …
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A new NASA survey indicates that Earth-sized planets are now thought to be common in the galaxy, and thus, probably the universe. As many as …
The next Mars rover, Curiosity, is being built right now in the clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and you can …
As more exoplanets are found on virtually a weekly basis, it is becoming apparent how diverse they are, sometimes with peculiar characteristics not seen before. …