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This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called "Buckskin" on lower Mount Sharp. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Curiosity Finds a Couple of Life’s Building Blocks on Mars

June 8, 2018

NASA says their Mars roaming laboratory, Curiosity, has found fresh evidence near the surface of the Red Planet that suggests it could have once supported ancient life. The rover also found evidence, in the Martian Atmosphere, that could link into the space agency’s search for current life on the planet. According to NASA, the new […]

After launching the Iridium-2 mission on June 25, 2017, the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 is seen here returning and coming in for a landing on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship that was positioned in the Pacific Ocean. (SpaceX, Flickr/Creative Commons)

Science Images – June, 2017

June 30, 2017

Lil Bub is one of the more popular felines on the Internet. (Mike Bridavsky/www.lilbub.com)

Science Scanner: Cat Videos Can Help You, Permanent Dust Cloud Surrounds Moon

June 17, 2015

Watching Cat Videos Can Give You a Boost You can hardly surf the Internet without stumbling across a cat video, and new research suggests those videos could actually be good for you.  Of all the categories of YouTube video content, videos of cats have had more views per video. It’s been suggested that there were […]

ESA’s Rosetta Probe Gets Close to Duck-Shaped Comet 67P/C-K

September 5, 2014

Back on Aug. 6 the European Space Agency‘s unmanned space probe Rosetta completed its decade long journey across space to meet up with its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, making it the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet. As the spacecraft neared its target, it took some close-up photos of the comet with its two camera […]

Vast Oceans Detected Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface

June 30, 2014

New evidence suggests there  might be oceans of water far beneath Earth’s surface. Northwestern University geophysicist Steve Jacobsen, along with University of New Mexico seismologist Brandon Schmandt, found evidence of water in pockets of hot magma about 645 km beneath North America within the transition zone between Earth’s upper and lower mantle. “It alters our […]

Curiosity Adjusts to Life on Mars

August 7, 2012

On its first full solar day on Mars, the Curiosity rover is under going a month-long series of health checks before getting down to its mission of exploring the chemistry of Mars. Curiosity isn’t expected to drill its first drill hole in a Mars rock for about another month or two, according to Rob Manning, […]

Scientists Hope Rover Will Discover If Life Exists on Mars

August 1, 2012

Excitement is building at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  A little over eight months after its November  2011 launch, NASA’s newest and most advanced Mars rover  is set to land on the red planet on Monday, Aug. 6. The Curiosity rover carries the most sophisticated payload of scientific equipment  ever used on Mars’ […]

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