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Future NASA space probes could be robot super balls
The Super Ball Bot could help overcome the most difficult and expensive part of sending a robotic mission to another planet: landing safely.
January 3, 2014
As 2014 begins, Venus a thin crescent in bright twilight
Venus is beautiful now! Just don't wait too many days to look for it. It'll soon disappear in the glare of sunset.
December 30, 2013
This date in science: Dawn spacecraft closer to Ceres than Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid Ceres -- to be captured by Ceres’ gravity -- in late March or the beginning of April 2015.
December 27, 2013
Here is the (John) Lennon crater on Mercury
Truman Capote has a crater on Mercury now, too. So does Enrico Caruso ... and seven other artists, musicians, painters and authors.
December 26, 2013
Super star creates holiday light show
A celestial wreath of reflective dust illuminated by a glittering star.
December 25, 2013
A billion stars here we come! Gaia galaxy surveyor lifts off
Gaia is designed to make accurate measurements of the positions and motions of 1% of the total population of roughly 100 billion Milky Way stars.
December 19, 2013
Find black holes while you’re on the bus
"With a large enough sample from your classifications, we can pick out black holes at different stages and build a better picture of their origins." - Radio Galaxy Zoo
December 19, 2013
Largest-ever true-color photo of the night sky
The photographer trekked 60,000 miles (100,000 km) across the western United States and South Africa to create this massive composite image.
December 18, 2013
New colorized images of asteroid Vesta
"No artist could paint something like that. Only nature can do this." - Astronomer Martin Hoffman
December 18, 2013
Milky Way galaxy has four arms again
A debate has been raging about whether our galaxy has four spiral arms, or two. A 12-year study of massive stars suggests that it has four.
December 17, 2013
