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10 Telescopes That Changed Our View of the Universe [Slide Show]
Historic telescopes through the ages, from Galileo to the 21st century
"spacecraft"
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10 Views of Earth from the Moon, Mars and Beyond [Slide Show]
For more than 40 years, missions throughout the solar system have sent back stunning images of our home planet
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Above It All: A Satellite's-Eye View of Pres. Obama's Inauguration [Slide Show]
GeoEye 1 puts an historic event in perspective
الحرب في الفضاء قد تكون أقرب من أي وقت مضى
تعمل الصين وروسيا والولايات المتحدة على تطوير واختبار قدرات جديدة مثيرة للجدل لشن حرب في الفضاء، بالرغم من إنكارهم لذلك
Voyager Has Entered The Interstellar Medium
After many claims and statements over the past few years that Voyager 1, our most distant operating spacecraft, has ‘left the solar system’ (it hasn’t, as I explain here), it does now seem that as of August 2012 this extraordinary vehicle has entered the interstellar medium...
To Jupiter
On October 9th, 2013, NASA’s Juno mission completed an Earth ‘flyby’ to gain a little extra velocity (a gravitational slingshot maneuver that steals a tiny bit of Earth’s momentum) to get it to Jupiter in 2016...
The Jupiter Vault
King Jove is one hell of a planet. It's also hell for a spacecraft
How the Ansari X Prize Altered the Trajectory of Human Spaceflight
Looking up into the bright Mojave sky in 2004, I strained to keep my eyes on the tiny spaceship 50,000 feet up. "Three, two, one... release, release, release!" came the call over the loudspeakers...
Astrónomos avistan penachos ensombrecidos alrededor de la luna Europa
Si se confirman, las erupciones de este helado satélite de Júpiter podrían ofrecer nuevas vías para explorar el océano que yace bajo su superficie.
El plan de la NASA de visitar un asteroide carece de norte fijo
La principal misión para la próxima década del programa de vuelos espaciales humanos de Estados Unidos puede terminar antes de siquiera comenzar.
New Horizons nos muestra un primer 'primer plano' de Plutón y Caronte
Imágenes de alta resolución de los mundos helados revelan altas montañas, inmensos cañones, y –tal vez– indicios de un océano bajo la superficie...
Astronomers Spy Shadowy Plumes around Europa
If confirmed, the icy Jovian moon’s eruptions could offer new pathways for exploring its subsurface ocean
How Juno Will Peer Deep below Jupiter's Roiling Clouds
A microwave radiometer onboard the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter could soon reveal where and how the giant planet formed
Human Missions to Mars Will Look Completely Different from The Martian
The blockbuster film’s futuristic vision of interplanetary exploration could soon be out of date
Pluto, Ready for Your Close-Up!
At just before 7:50 A.M. today, July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto. After a 9.5-year, three-billion-mile voyage, the ship got within about 7,750 miles from the surface...
Spacecraft Glitch Won't Affect Pluto Flyby, NASA Says
New Horizons went into “safe mode” on Saturday but the probe should be back to normal science operations by Tuesday, exactly one week before it performs the flyby
SpaceX Faces the Hard Truth about Soft Landings—They’re Tough to Do
With two partially successful landing attempts of its Falcon 9 booster, the private company inches closer to its goal of making a fully reusable rocket
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DNA Can Survive Reentry from Space
Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions
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Artist Josh Simpson Makes Giant, Fiery Glass Planets, Coronas and Meteorites [Slide Show]
Science and a furnace turn glass and metallic oxides into fantastic worlds
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Comet-Chasing Rosetta Spacecraft Gets an Up-Close Look at Asteroid Lutetia [Slide Show]
The Rosetta spacecraft got a good look at the large, main-belt asteroid during a July flyby
