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Mars Express Took Photos Of Mars With a Giant Crater Packed With Ice
By Marksman on December 21, 2018
Flying over the frigid northern limits of Mars, the circling Mars Express satellite took images of the 50-mile wide Korolev crater packed with ice. Korolev...
Hubble’s Latest Capture of Globular Star Cluster NGC 1898
By Marksman on December 20, 2018
This sparkly orb of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies near the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of our nearest...
Virgin Galactic’s Spaceplane Makes it to Space for the First Time
By Marksman on December 15, 2018
At long last, space tourism enterprise Virgin Galactic has sent a vehicle into space. Thursday morning, the company’s passenger spaceplane, the VSS Unity, burned its rocket engine...
41 Years Later, Voyager 2 Has Just Entered Interstellar Space
By Marksman on December 10, 2018
Voyager 2 has met its fate to leave the heliosphere and become the second interstellar spacecraft after Voyager 1, according to a statement from NASA. NASA’s Voyager...
Listen to the Soothing Sounds of Martian Wind Recorded by NASA’s InSight Lander
By Marksman on December 8, 2018
The InSight Mars lander accomplished a perfect landing last week on the Elysium Planitia region of the planet, where it is hard at work preparing to...
NASA Spacecraft Finally Reached The Asteroid on Collision-Course with Earth!
By Marksman on December 6, 2018
NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has finally reached the asteroid 101955 Bennu – which may be on collision course with the Earth – after traveling for just over two years since...
Traveled 300 Million Miles For This Pic
By Marksman on November 28, 2018
The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the robotic arm of NASA’s InSight lander, took this picture of the Martian surface on Nov. 26, 2018, the...
A Real Time 4K Journey Around Earth from Orbit
By Marksman on November 26, 2018
“Orbit” is a real-time reconstruction of time-lapse photography taken on board the International Space Station by NASA’s Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit. The structure...
NASA’s Going Back to the Moon and They Made a Brilliant Hype Video For It
By Marksman on November 20, 2018
NASA is going back to the Moon to stay, and planning to go beyond. With a voiceover by Mike Rowe, NASA looks back on 60...
Is This Cigar-Shaped Space Object an Alien Ship?
By Marksman on November 7, 2018
Maybe not. But astronomers from Harvard tease the possibility in a new paper. Could a long, cigar-shaped object floating through space be part of an...