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New images of Pluto’s moon Charon
Images released Friday, October 9. New Horizons acquired them when it swept past the Pluto system on July 14. The spacecraft's data are still being returned.
October 11, 2015
Mars Curiosity rover sends a postcard
If you want to imagine standing on the surface of the Red Planet Mars ... look at this.
October 10, 2015
Mysterious ripples race across planet-forming disk
Astronomers have found fast-moving wave-like features - ripples - in the dusty disk surrounding a young star. Nothing like this was ever observed or predicted.
October 9, 2015
Where to look for ET life? Habitability index aids in the search
Powerful telescopes coming soon. Where shall we point them to find extraterrestrial life? Astronomers have created a way to help prioritize exoplanets.
October 9, 2015
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
