Doug Ballard3 days agoStunning Mars photos by the Curiosity rover show ancient climate shiftspace.com - Elizabeth HowellThe rover is finding minerals formed amid drier conditions as it ascends Mount Sharp. A venerable Red-Planet rover might be spotting signs of the …
Doug Ballard3 days agoThis Weird Star Survived a Supernova Only to Shine Even More Brightly Than Beforeverified_publisherScienceAlert - Mike McRaeWhen it comes to going out with style, nothing comes close to the end of a white dwarf. Their thermonuclear self-destruction ranks among the most …
Doug Ballard3 days agoLightSail 2 celebrates 3rd space birthday as end of mission approachesspace.com - Elizabeth HowellThe mission, far beyond its design lifetime, may fall into the atmosphere in a few months. A solar-sailing mission is now marking three years of …
Doug Ballard3 days agoNASA’s Voyager engineers are devising clever ways to preserve our farthest missionInverse - Doris Elín UrrutiaDespite recent headlines, NASA’s venerable Voyager craft isn’t shutting down quite yet — but in two months, the team that manages the iconic mission …
Doug Ballard6 days agoThe terrifying moment a NASA astronaut drifted untethered through spacebgr.com - Joshua HawkinsSpace is terrifying. As astronauts navigate around outside space stations and their space shuttles one wrong move can send them hurtling out into a …
Doug Ballard6 days agoFormer NASA deputy chief reveals story behind Apollo 13 astronaut's medal of honorspace.com - Robert Z. PearlmanLori Garver tells the previously untold tale in her new book, 'Escaping Gravity.' Less than a month after "Apollo 13" opened in movie theaters in June …
