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Exciting News soon from Mars Rover said to be Historic….Evidence of Life?

Mars SAM instrument may have discovered "Something for the History Books." (Update 11/26/12 - KnowledgeOrb has learned that the announcement from NASA…

12 years ago

NASA Reacts to European Discovery of Earth Size Planet, Embarrassment?

NASA issues a statement about the Alpha Centuri Exoplanet Discovery, are they a little embarrassed? As reported by KnowledgeOrb earlier…

12 years ago

Kepler Failure Interrupts Science Data Collection

Kepler Hardware Failure causes it to temporarily stop observations The Kepler Satellite, known for many discoveries of planets outside of…

13 years ago

Mars Science Lab Curiosity Worth the Cost?

The fact that we are about to land the largest most complex and powerful rovers ever to land on mars…

13 years ago

Cassini Spacecraft Changes Orbit for New View of Saturn’s Rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has recently resumed the kind of orbits that allow for spectacular views of Saturn's rings. This view,…

13 years ago

Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes In An Exoplanet Atmosphere

WASHINGTON -- An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting…

13 years ago

Transit of Venus

Today, June 5th, 2012, At 22:09 UTC, we will be able to see the planet Venus as a small dark…

13 years ago

Light of Alien “Super Earth” seen by Spitzer

  WASHINGTON -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for…

13 years ago