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Where the Curiosity rover is now on Mars
The Curiosity rover is in a particularly interesting place now, creeping across a sand dune in a place called Dingo Gap on Mars. Breathtaking images!
February 4, 2014
Amazing new image of Saturn’s puzzling hexagon
Saturn's hexagon is a long-lived weather pattern at the planet's north pole, first spotted by Voyager 1 in 1980.
February 4, 2014
NASA to create the coldest spot in the universe aboard the ISS
The researchers plan to study matter at 100 pico-Kelvin. At such low temperatures, ordinary concepts of solid, liquid and gas are no longer relevant.
January 31, 2014
Video: Solar eclipse from space
On Jan 30, the moon moved between NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the sun, giving the observatory a view of a partial solar eclipse only visible from space.
January 31, 2014
Video: Stargazing in the Canadian Rockies
Jack Fusco captured more than 2,000 photos during the 2013 Jasper Dark Sky Festival in Canada, in order to create this timelapse video.
January 30, 2014
Space travel weakens flies’ immune systems
Fruit flies sent as eggs on a 12-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery had a key part of their immune system weakened, as they grew in space.
January 30, 2014
Brown dwarf weather revealed by surface mapping
For humans, brown dwarf weather will always be rated as "extremely inclement" with temps of 2,000 degrees F (1,100 C) and clouds made of minute droplets of molten iron.
January 29, 2014
River of hydrogen flowing through space
A faint, tenuous filament of gas streaming into galaxy NGC 6946. It might help explain how some spiral galaxies keep up their pace of star formation.
January 28, 2014
Chinese moon rover Yutu is in trouble
The little robotic explorer is China's first on the moon. The Chang'e 3 that carried it set down in December. The rover might not survive the lunar night.
January 28, 2014
Largest asteroid Ceres is venting water vapor into space
This is the first unambiguous detection of water vapor around an object in the asteroid belt.
January 23, 2014
