Save
Email
Print
Share
RSS
Forecast for Saturn's Moon Titan: Wild Weather Could Be Ahead
Saturn's moon Titan might be
in for some wild weather as
it heads into its spring and
summer, if two new models
are correct. Scientists
think that as the seasons
... > full story
Fragile Mega-Galaxy Is Missing Link in History of Cosmos
Two hungry young galaxies
that collided 11 billion
years ago are rapidly
forming a massive galaxy
about 10 times the size of
the Milky Way, according to
... > full story
NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons
In Antarctica in January,
2013 -- the summer at the
South Pole -- scientists
released 20 balloons, each
eight stories tall, into the
air to help answer an
... > full story
NASA's IRIS Mission Readies for a New Challenge
NASA is getting ready to
launch a new mission, a
mission to observe a largely
unexplored region of the
solar atmosphere that powers
its dynamic million-degree
... > full story
Browse News Stories
1 to 10 of 5,198 stories
view headlines only
-
NASA Launching Experiment to Examine the Beginnings of the Universe
May 21, 2013 — When did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? How brightly did they burn their nuclear fuel? Scientists will seek to gain answers to these questions with the launch of the Cosmic ... > full story -
NASA Builds Unusual Testbed for Analyzing X-Ray Navigation Technologies
May 20, 2013 — Pulsars have a number of unusual qualities. Like zombies, they shine even though they're technically dead, and they rotate rapidly, emitting powerful and regular beams of radiation that are seen as ... > full story -
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target
May 20, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." Plans call for delivering portions of the sample in ... > full story -
Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
May 18, 2013 — NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by ... > full story -
Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
May 17, 2013 — While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth's moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission's Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles (22.210 statute ... > full story -
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
May 16, 2013 — NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in ... > full story -
Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation
May 16, 2013 — Johnny Cash may have preferred this galaxy's burning ring of fire to the one he sang about falling into in his popular song. The "starburst ring" seen at center of a new image in red and yellow hues ... > full story -
Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship
May 16, 2013 — On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... > full story -
NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation
May 15, 2013 — Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story -
New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 — Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,313
more 
