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Lunar Module Apollo 11

Apollo 11's Giant Leap for Mankind

40 years ago, the lunar module landed on the moon, providing an unforgettable moment for the millions watching back on Earth
August 2009 | By Owen Edwards

The Legacy of Apollo

On July 16, 1969, NASA launched Apollo 11, the mission that put two men on the moon four days after lift-off.Forty years later, historians and NASA officials are still trying to gauge the legacy of the Apollo program. On Thursday, five panelists met at NASA headquarters to discuss its impact.Many o...
July 18, 2009 | By Ashley Luthern

Crowd looking at Apollo 11 launch

Moonwalk Launch Party

The launch 40 years ago of Apollo 11, which put a man on the moon, brought Americans together during a time of nationwide unrest
July 2009 | By David Burnett

An Explanation for the Missing Sunspots

I bet that most of you don’t know that the sunspots are missing. That’s okay. I’m sure many people don’t realize that the sun is more than just a ball of fire: it has a complex internal structure, features that vary based on multi-year cycles, and it can create solar storms that knock out power and...
June 18, 2009 | By Sarah Zielinski

Embryonic stars in the Eagle Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Finest Photos

Now that the telescope has received its final upgrades, we look back on Hubble's most memorable images from space
May 06, 2009 | By Joseph Caputo

Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell

After Space, Saving Suits, Boots and Gloves

The spacesuits that kept U.S. astronauts alive now owe their survival to one woman
May 2009 | By Megan Gambino

Ansel Adams Autumn Moon

Forensic Astronomer Solves Fine Arts Puzzles

Astrophysicist Don Olson breaks down the barriers between science and art by analyzing literature and paintings from the past
April 2009 | By Jennifer Drapkin and Sarah Zielinski

Stardust capsule

Stardust Memories

Cosmic dust may reveal some of the uncovered secrets of our universe
December 2008 | By Anika Gupta

Picture of the Week – A Newly Restored Photo of the Earth and Moon

In honor of our newly launched sister blog, The Once and Future Moon, from Air & Space, this week’s Picture of the Week is the Earth as seen from the Moon, circa 1966.Thinking ahead, NASA sent five missions up to photograph the moon in the 1960s, before sending the first people. The data have b...
November 21, 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Robert Howard Jr

Lunar Living

The quest to return to the moon ignites new hope and vision at the 50-year-old space agency
July 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

The ATHLETE

Debating Manned Moon Missions

Experts provide opposing viewpoints on manned missions to space
July 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

Explorer I Satellite

In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik
January 2008 | By Owen Edwards

Maria Zuber

On the surprise evidence of flowing water on Mars
February 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

Though the exoplanets found to date are in our galaxy, most are about 100 light-years away.

The Planet Hunters

Nevermind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth.
October 2006 | By Robert Irion

What Makes a Planet?

Why our solar system just shrank.
October 2006 | By Robert Irion

A Martian meteorite fueled speculation and debate in 1996 when scientists reported that it held signs of past life. The search now moves to Mars itself.

Life on Mars?

It's hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
May 2005 | By Carl Zimmer

Splendid Isolation

When the first astronauts to walk on the Moon returned from their July 1969 lunar expedition, they were confined to quarters
July 2004 | By Owen Edwards

A Bumpy Road to Mars

The president envisions a future human mission to Mars, but medical researchers say surviving the journey is no spacewalk
June 2004 | By Jane Ellen Stevens

This amazing panorama of the Ares Vallis flood plain made the front pages of newspapers around the world in July 1997. It was taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and features the tiny, 23-pound Sojourner rover nuzzling a rock. The lander and the rover recorded weather patterns, atmospheric data and the composition of many Martian rocks, which apparently had washed down the channel eons ago. The rover, capable of changing course when it met obstacles, captured the imagination of the thousands who followed the mission on the Internet.

Celestial Sightseeing

From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
November 01, 2003 | By Michael Benson

Caution, Planets Ahead

The world's largest (maybe) 9-planet solar system model goes up along Route 1 in northern Maine
March 2003 | By Sam Hooper Samuels


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