• NASA's Next Mars Probe to Spy on Red Planet from Above

    Updated: 2012-04-30 20:54:16
    The MAVEN mission will investigate the rate of atmospheric loss on Mars.

  • The Moon and the Arc of the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-04-30 18:34:01
    When the panorama was taken, the Moon was lying close to the centre of the Milky Way in the sky, its light bathing the antennas in an eerie night-time glow.

  • Mars Rover Roadtrip: Death Valley Stands In for Red Planet This Week

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:36:33
    The chief scientist for NASA's next Mars rover is taking a handful of journalists out to California's Death Valley.

  • NASA's Huge Mars Rover Curiosity: 11 Amazing Facts

    Updated: 2012-04-30 16:00:13
    A look at the Curiosity rover's science instruments and what they can do.

  • Giant Alien Planet May Have Split into 2 Earth-Size Worlds

    Updated: 2012-04-30 12:13:18
    The two planets were created from a giant world that was ripped apart, scientists say.

  • Best Space Photos of the Week - April 29, 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-29 13:06:54
    See our picks for the best space photos of the week of April 29 in this gallery.

  • Final Flight: Space Shuttle Enterprise Over NYC | Video

    Updated: 2012-04-28 01:28:12
    Riding atop NASA's modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, NASA’s drop-test article – the not quite an Orbiter Enterprise – flew to the New York area on April 27, 2012. It's final home: the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum. <p

  • See Dazzling Venus at Its Brightest This Week

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:53:15
    Venus reaches maximum brightness this week, making it a must-see for skywatchers.

  • Huge Lake on Saturn's Moon Titan Acts Like Earth's Mudflats

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:08:27
    Ontario Lacus likely dries out and refills periodically, a new study suggests.

  • Space History Photo: Zero Gravity Facility

    Updated: 2012-04-27 14:04:20
    The Zero Gravity Facility rivals even the Washington Monument.

  • 3.2 Billion-Pixel Camera Telescope Gets Critical Go-Ahead

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:12:39
    When built, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope would create a kind of time-lapse movie of the visible sky.

  • Ancient Mars Lava Spirals Reveal Volcanic Secrets of Red Planet

    Updated: 2012-04-26 19:09:31
    The source of a valley region on Mars has been a mystery until now.

  • Mexico Volcano’s Ash Cloud Spied from Space | Video

    Updated: 2012-04-26 16:25:02
    Mexico's Popocatépetl Volcano began to get a lot more active in the middle of April.  A NASA satellite captured these images of the restive peak sending up clouds of ash from April 14 through April 22, 2012.  

  • Space History Photo: Fourier Telescope

    Updated: 2012-04-26 14:05:44
    Marshall Space and Flight Center's winner of a Research Technology Award worked with the Fourier telescope.

  • Sun-Like Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System

    Updated: 2012-04-26 10:32:59
    The HD 10180 system could host up to nine planets, according to a new study.

  • Amazing Video of Saturn Stitched Together from Old NASA Photos

    Updated: 2012-04-25 22:10:46
    The footage comes from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft.

  • Asteroid Mining No Crazier Than Deep-Sea Drilling, Advocates Say

    Updated: 2012-04-25 21:00:00
    Both are expensive, complex activities that can take decades to pan out.

  • Famous Sombrero Galaxy Shows Surprising Side

    Updated: 2012-04-25 19:36:18
    A new photo from the Spitzer Space Telescope shows a whole new side of the galaxy.

  • Star Formation Reveals Strange Evolution of Early Galaxies

    Updated: 2012-04-25 18:03:10
    Early elliptical galaxies contained a higher fraction of low-mass stars at their birth, according to a new study.

  • Collapsed Lei Gong Mo Bubble Fragment

    Updated: 2012-04-01 20:04:40
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  • Alien vs. Editor: A Pigment of Your Imagination?

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:50:10
    By Steve Edberg Alien vs. Editor is a forum for questions and answers about extrasolar planets and NASA’s search for life beyond our solar system. Leave your questions for author Steve Edberg and read more on the PlanetQuest website. Where would blue-skinned aliens exist? Joel asked: If you were to find aliens next to the sun, why would [...]

  • All Eyes on Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:59:40
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a young crater on Vesta that is 9 miles (15 kilometers) in diameter. Layering is visible in the crater walls, as are [...]

  • Meteorites Stolen from University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy

    Updated: 2012-03-08 03:37:24
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  • Highs and Lows of Exploring the Giant Asteroid

    Updated: 2012-03-02 21:30:05
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on images obtained by Dawn’s framing cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › [...]

  • Slice of History: Vice President Lyndon Johnson Visits JPL

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:53:54
    By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Vice President Lyndon Johnson Visits JPL — Photograph Number P-1723A On October 4, 1961, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. In [...]

  • A Look Inside Dawn’s Grand Asteroid Adventure

    Updated: 2012-02-02 01:03:11
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. The south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta, as imaged by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in September 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA | › Full image and caption [...]

  • Slice of History: Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon

    Updated: 2012-01-24 20:35:04
    By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon — Photograph Number P-10709B In November 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad landed on the moon less than 600 [...]

  • CoS 128

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:49:04
    I've been busy catching up on my classes, so I haven't posted anything lately.  But, you can catch up on lots of great space-related blog posts at the 128th Carnival of Space, being hosted this week at the AARTScope Blog. -Astroprof

  • Electrostatic Radiation Shielding

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:49:01
    Clearly carrying heavy shielding to protect astronauts from radiation in space is expensive.  If you havent' been reading my space radiation series as I've been posting, then you can look over the last several of my postings about space radiation to see some of the problems.  So, some other strategy ...

  • Cosmic Rays

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:48:59
    Part 3 of my series on space radiation is about the radiation itself.  The term cosmic rays is generally used to describe this radiation.  Unfortunately, as often happens, the term evolved before the nature of the phenomenon being studied was known, so it may not be the best term to ...

  • Dawn Longs to be Closer to Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-01-12 21:43:39
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image, one of the first obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows part of the rim of a fresh crater on the giant [...]

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