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Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
The spectacular new camera
installed on NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope during
Servicing Mission 4 in May
has delivered the most
detailed view of star birth
... > full story
Professor To Predict Weather On Mars
Is there such a thing as
"weather" on Mars? There are
some doubts, considering the
planet's atmosphere is only
1 percent as dense as that
of the Earth. Mars, however,
definitely has clouds,
... > full story
NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies
Nearby galaxies undergoing a
furious pace of star
formation also emit lots of
gamma rays, say astronomers
using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray
... > full story
Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns On Mars Rover Spirit
Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars
Exploration Rover had gone
more than six months without
an episode of amnesia-like
symptoms like those that
appeared on four occasions
... > full story
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees Channels From Hale Crater
November 2, 2009 — A new image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, ... > full story -
Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box
October 30, 2009 — The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ... > full story -
Exploring The Final Frontier: Disease Proposed As Major Barrier To Mars And Beyond
October 30, 2009 — Scientists argue that human missions to Mars, as well as all other long-term space flights might be compromised by microbial hitchhikers, such as bacteria. That's because long-term space travel packs ... > full story -
New Celestial Map Gives Directions For GPS
October 30, 2009 — Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which calculates your ... > full story -
Key Process For Space Outpost Proved On 'Vomit Comet' Ride
October 29, 2009 — During flights simulating the moon's low gravity, researchers find that sifters can separate soil particles and produce the best feedstock for an oxygen generator. Scientists are designing and ... > full story -
Gamma-ray Photon Race Ends In Dead Heat; Einstein Wins This Round
October 28, 2009 — A pair of gamma-ray photons -- one possessed of a million times the energy of the other -- arrived at virtually the same instant at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, after a ... > full story -
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
October 28, 2009 — NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the ... > full story -
Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds
October 28, 2009 — An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid ... > full story -
World's Fastest Supercomputer Models Origins Of The Unseen Universe
October 27, 2009 — A new "Roadrunner Universe" model requires a petascale computer because, like the universe, it's mind-bendingly large. The model's basic unit is a particle with a mass of approximately one billion ... > full story -
Long Night Falls Over Saturn's Rings
October 23, 2009 — As Saturn's rings orbit the planet, a section is typically in the planet's shadow, experiencing a brief night lasting from 6 to 14 hours. However, once approximately every 15 years, night falls over ... > full story
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