NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year
(NASA) – Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission’s main goal of determining whether Mars once offered…
Mars Curiosity Rover takes Self Portrait
On Sol 32 (Sept. 7, 2012) the Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) located on its arm to obtain this self-portrait. The image shows the top of…
Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars
(JPL) – This is the first transit of the sun by a planet observed from any planet other than Earth, and also the first imaging of Mercury from Mars. Mercury…
Oldest Known Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
The planets around the nearby red-dwarf Kapteyn’s star are over twice as old as Earth (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – An international team of astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escude from Queen Mary…
Hubble Team Unveils Most Colorful View of Universe Captured by Space Telescope
(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe — among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old…
100 Million Planets in our Galaxy May Harbor Complex Life
One Percent of All Exoplanets May Be Suitable for Complex Organisms (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – The number of planets on which complex life could exist in the Milky Way may…
Tropical cyclone ‘maximum intensity’ is shifting toward poles
(NOAA) – Over the past 30 years, the location where tropical cyclones reach maximum intensity has been shifting toward the poles in both the northern and southern hemispheres at a…
New Crater found on Mars by MRO
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The…
