(NASA) – Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it…
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Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
(NASA) – Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake…
Satellite View Colorful and Plankton-full Patagonian Waters
(NASA) – Late spring and summer weather brings blooms of color to the Atlantic Ocean off of South America, at…
NASA Orion Scrubbed for launch 12/4/14 7:05am EST
UPDATE – The launch of Orion’s flight test has been scrubbed for today because of an issue related to fill…
NASA’s Newest Manned Spacecraft Orion Set for December 4th Launch
Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle there has been no U.S. based manned launch capability The Orion capsule along…
Young Galaxies found dying a premature death
(NASA) – Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered young, massive, compact galaxies whose raucous…
Rosetta makes first ever landing on a Comet
Mission controllers at ESA’s mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched…
ESA Rosetta Probe to Land on Comet 11/12/14
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will deploy its harpoon laden comet lander, “Philae.” for a landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko…
