For this evening's Planetary Radio Live event, Mat Kaplan asked me to do a presentation of some favorite space images. I told him that picking favorite space images is like picking favorite children; it's not possible because they're all my favorite …

The 1000-foot-wide (305 meters) Arecibo dish and NASA's 230-foot (70 m) Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., tracked 1998 QE2 as it approached Earth last month, then kept following the near-Earth asteroid as it receded into the depths of …

But this new image, done as a collaboration between amateur astronomers Terry Hancock of Michigan and Fred Herrmann of Alabama, is amazing, with detail usually only seen from large ground-based observatories or space telescopes, particularly the …

Updated: 4:51 p.m. yesterday. An image taken by the Mars rover Curiosity back in September has been making the Internet rounds recently. A poster to a web forum devoted to UFO sightings suggests that the image shows "a cute rodent on Mars." This …

A huge asteroid set to sail past Earth on Friday has its own moon, NASA scientists have just discovered. Researchers obtained a series of radar images of the approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 late Wednesday (May 29) using the Deep Space Network antenna …

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