Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the mend

After unexpectedly switching to its backup...

further adventures in interesting rocks

The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has...

Remember Virgin Galactic—Sir Richard Branson’s Scaled-Composites-powered venture to...

A meteorite which fell into Tagish Lake in Ontario, Canada in 2000 was recently analyzed and...

NASA’s  Kepler mission launched successfully from Cape Canaveral on  Thursday,...

On Tuesday, February 24, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory craft was lost shortly after...

The accidental crash last week between a defunct Russian military satellite and a U.S. Iridium...

After more than a year of coasting through space, Japan’s Hayabusa space probe recently...

Iran has launched its first domesticly-built satellite into orbit, according to numerous...

While it has been known that the Antarctic Peninsula has been warming, a new study using...

New research using three ground-based telescopes has shown that nearly 21,000 tons of methane...

While sound doesn’t travel in space, radio waves can, and a team of astronomers has...

On January 3, 2009, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit celebrated five years on Mars,...

While possessing a sophisticated array of soil-analysis tools, the first solid evidence of ice...

After a rough start, the Phoenix Mars Lander is successfully analyzing dirt samples dug up from...

While the robot arm on the Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully delivered dirt to the lander, at...

On June 2, NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of...

On May 25, NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down in the Martian arctic in...

Hidden right in the familiar Big Dipper, astronomers have discovered a new type of white dwarf...

No, not an All Terrain Vehicle—an Automated Transfer Vehicle, which was launched by the...