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The NASA/NOAA GOES-13 satellite captured the mi...
The dark hot spot in this false-color space wallpaper from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. All around it are layers of higher clouds, with colors indicating which layer of the atmosphere the clouds are in.
Opportunity passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972.
The May 31 flyby of 1.7-mile-long 1998 QE2 poses no threat to Earth.
Quantum computers may revolutionize complex problem-solving.
There's a chance the prolific instrument could recover from its recent malfunction, officials say.
This stunning space wallpaper, taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a unique example of a globular cluster — Palomar 2. Palomar 2 is part of a group of 15 globulars known as the Palomar clusters.
The X1.2 solar flare was the fourth X-class flare in two days from the sunspot AR1748.
AR1748 should be lined up with our planet by the weekend.
Only three poems will be selected to ride on the Maven orbiter, which is slated to launch in November.
Mission scientists want to confirm the exciting results from the rover's first drilling operation.
The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this space wallpaper from NASA's Great Observatories.
Curiosity should drill another rock within the next week or two.
This cool space wallpaper is a composite color image of the Herschel PACS 70, 100, 160 micron-wavelength images of Betelgeuse.
The soft glow in this space wallpaper is NGC 2768, an elliptical galaxy located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). It appears here as a bright oval on the sky, surrounded by a wide, fuzzy cloud of material.
Curiosity's month of freedom on the Red Planet is over.
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