Space // 

NASA's Dawn mission has beamed back the best-ever view of a 'planet' between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft is ...

sarahfecht at 09:43 AM Jan 28 2015

Gravity assists -- flybys -- are pretty neat. These precision maneuvers that involve harnessing and using the ...

Amy Shira Teitel at 09:26 AM Jan 10 2015

Are you ready for your closeup, Comet 67P? After a 10-year journey, the Rosetta spacecraft finally reached its ...

Sarah Fecht at 07:16 AM Aug 7 2014
Tech // 

The European Space Agency's galaxy-mapping spacecraft, Gaia, was originally scheduled to launch in less than a ...

fcdiep at 05:36 AM Oct 23 2013
Space // 

"The smartphone in your pocket has more computing power than the spacecraft that took the Apollo 11 astronauts to ...

Clay Dillow at 03:55 AM Aug 28 2012
 
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