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Space apps company seeks crowd-sourced funds to launch
Uwingu wants to game-ify space with novel software applications. Profits from the space apps will go toward space research and education.
August 15, 2012
ALMA telescope: World’s biggest astronomy project
What better goal for the world's biggest telescope - the ALMA telescope - than to probe details of how stars like our sun and planets like Earth came to be?
August 15, 2012
Video: A flight through the universe
Prepare for warp speed as you watch this video of a flight through the universe.
August 14, 2012
Methane lakes in tropics of Saturn’s large moon Titan
Saturn's moon Titan has methane lakes and it's the only place in the solar system, other than Earth, with large bodies of liquid on its surface.
August 10, 2012
What’s Curiosity doing now? Watch NASA TV
NASA TV has been celebrating the Curiosity landing all week, plus talking about what's next. Follow the link in this post to watch.
August 7, 2012
Curiosity and its parachute spotted on descent to Mars
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the Curiosity rover as it descended by parachute to the surface of Mars.
August 6, 2012
Mars landing sites of previous rovers and Curiosity
Awesome video shows the Mars landing sites of all seven NASA spacecraft to reach Mars, including the new Curiosity rover.
August 6, 2012
Curiosity rover safely lands on Mars
NASA scientists say the new one-ton rover Curiosity made a picture-perfect landing in the Gale Crater on Mars.
August 6, 2012
What will happen when Curiosity gets to Mars?
The spacecraft is healthy and on course for delivering the new Curiosity rover to Mars on August 5. What will happen when it gets there?
August 4, 2012
Mars tugging on approaching Curiosity rover
The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling in NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours.
August 4, 2012
