Musk said Monday from SpaceX headquarters in California that it will send Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa - with a group of artists - on a loop around the moon and back to Earth in 2023. "It's dangerous," Musk said. Read more.
TESS is the successor to the Kepler mission, which single-handedly discovered a big fraction of all known exoplanets. NASA released TESS' 1st-light image on Monday. Ahoy! New worlds ahead! Read more.
On today's date in 1977, as it headed toward the outer solar system, Voyager 1 looked back and acquired this stunning image of our Earth and moon. Read about the Voyagers.
Voyager 1 took the photo on September 18, 1977, when it was 7 million miles (12 million km) from Earth. It was a stunning revelation. Read more.
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The white markings here are bright residual carbon dioxide ice deposits - dry ice - on the south-facing rim of a pit crater on Mars. Image via ESA's ExoMars orbiter. Read more.
