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Year: 2015
Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories,…
NASA’s DAWN Spacecraft spots mysterious lights on CERES
As the Dawn spacecraft approaches the dwarf planet CERES it takes ever clearer images. In this image taken from 29,000 miles…
RIP Leonard Nimoy, Spock.
Like so many of us I grew up with Star Trek and Mr. Spock. I cannot begin to tell you how…
Hubble finds dust forming young planet around new star
(NASA) – Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery…
Bright Fireball seen over New York, Ohio area
(NASA) – A very bright fireball seen over New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania at 4:45:17 EST this morning, February 17th.…
Visualization of the Protoplanetary Disk Around HL Tau
(Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo) – Here we show a test of a simple code to analyze and visualize…
Second bite of Martian mountain taken by NASA Rover
(NASA) – The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of…
