Astronomy/Cosmology
Get a feel for what a vacation to Mars would look like with a moveable 360-degree view stitched together from images sent back by the Curiosity rover...
Someone has done an excellent job of splicing together the animation of the landing of the Mars Curiosity rover with the actual real-time narration...
Results from an expedition to far eastern Russia that set out to find the origin of naturally occurring quasicrystals have provided convincing...
Iconic Apollo astronaut and Moon walker Neil Armstrong is recovering from heart surgery, but is doing well. Reports say that Armstrong, 82, underwent...
For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered...
Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help the investigation of...
At 3.31pm today (AEST) the NASA control room in Pasadena, California erupted after people heard these three simple words: “touchdown signal detected...
Congratulations to all the folks at NASA and JPL who made the success of this mission possible. Great job!
Below are the first low-resolution photos...
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), a rover known as Curiosity, is scheduled to land on the surface of the Red Planet on Sunday, August 5....
On Monday, August 6 at 1:30 am Eastern Time in the US (Sunday, August 5th at 10:31 pm Pacific Time), the Curiosity rover will land on Mars. The...

















