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NASA orbiter views real ‘Martian’ sites
Real-life views of places on Mars where a fictional stranded astronaut, Mark Watney - from the Hollywood movie The Martian - undergoes his many trials.
October 9, 2015
See Wednesday’s rocket launch from U.S. mid-Atlantic
Time will be 7 p.m. EDT this evening. People in a wide swath of U.S. mid-Atlantic states can see it, if skies are clear.
October 6, 2015
How close to sending people to Mars?
There's now a target date of 2030 for a manned mission to Mars. But how close are we, really, to becoming Martians?
October 5, 2015
NASA shortlists 5 possible new missions
NASA has announced five investigations for further study in its latest competition for new, relatively small-scale, robotic missions into our solar system.
October 4, 2015
Video lets you imagine Earth breathing
NASA video simulating a massive typhoon spinning toward China, with something extra added. Plus a word about the Gaia hypothesis.
October 4, 2015
Einstein ring helps weigh a black hole
Astronomers have "weighed" only the nearest supermassive black holes. Now, with a gravity lens and Einstein ring, they've weighed one 12 billion light-years away.
October 3, 2015
Best yet images of Pluto’s moon Charon
Beautiful and fascinating images from the New Horizons spacecraft reveal the large moon’s violent history.
October 2, 2015
India launches its first astronomy satellite
India has reached for the stars with a successful launch of its first astronomy satellite. ASTROSAT carries India's version of the Hubble Space Telescope.
September 28, 2015
Evidence of flowing water on Mars
Mars is a desert world, but it's not completely dry. Scientists have found liquid water flowing on Mars.
September 28, 2015
Intriguing cycle of close and far moons
This post explains lunar perigee - the moon's closest point to Earth - and includes dates of all closest and farthest moons for each month of 2015.
September 27, 2015
