Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione resembles a bland cueball. Thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain o… more →
AstroNewswrote 4 days ago: When was the last time anyone asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up? For whatever reason … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I am amused by astrophysicists playing the role of biologists. It is true we are all made up of th … more →
wrote 1 week ago: If an alien intelligence (or collective) wanted to contact human cultures or minds, I suggest that t … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione res … more →
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there a … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Because it has no source of energy, a dead star — known as a white dwarf — will eventually cool down … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A research team with Jungmi KWON (GUAS/NAOJ) has performed deep imaging linear and circular polarime … more →
wrote 1 month ago: NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to five small planets … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute A laboratory experiment at NASA’s Jet P … more →
wrote 3 months ago: ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partn … more →
wrote 3 months ago: An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona The subsurface environment on Mars may hold clues to … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Extremophile – n. – A microbe that lives in an environment one thought to be uninhabitab … more →
wrote 6 months ago: It is 1 Dec 2012. Last week, NASA said that Curiosity had found ‘something for the history boo … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Astronomers find planets in strange places and wonder if they might support life. One such place wou … more →
wrote 6 months ago: NPR reports that the Mars Science Laboratory Team working on a soil sample collected by the rover Cu … more →
wrote 7 months ago: www.starchildproject.com … more →