The ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 Moons All
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 released a probe that impacted close to the lunar south pole on November 14.
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A Rocky Snap From ISS
This astronaut photograph was acquired on October 28 with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera that was fitted with an 180-mm lens and was taken by the Expedition 18 crew. The photo highlights a portion of the Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains approximately 31 kilometers due west of Boulder, Colorado.
Read MoreThe Frigid Clutch Of Glaciers… On Mars?
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
Read MoreMagnetar Musings, Thanks To ESA’s XMM-Newton + Integral Studies
X-ray and gamma-ray data from ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral orbiting observatories has been used to test, for the first time, the physical processes that make magnetars, an atypical class of neutron stars, shine in X-rays.
Read MoreNASA’s 20 Million Mile, Super Long Distance Internet Connection
An amazing feat that took 10 years between NASA and Google resulted in a successful test of the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet from a NASA spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
Read MoreHubble Shoots First Bright Light of New Planet Perhaps Complete With Rings
The story doesn't begin here, but this is what was announced. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshots of a planet orbiting another star.
Read MoreNASA’s Got The Spirit, But Must Save It
After assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks.
Read More“It’s Alive, It’s Alive” — Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Has More Spirit!
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today, right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Read MoreHubble Discovers Planet While Dusting — Fomalhaut The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Say hello to the new kid on the block, as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b,
Read MoreOCO Moved to Vandenberg AFB To Meet Up With Taurus
NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final launch preparations.
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