Carnival of Space #328
The tent is up! This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.…
This Hitchhiking Satellite — Launching Today — Is Small Enough To Fit In Your Hand
Talk about tiny technology. The NASA PhoneSat 2.4, which is set to launch today (Nov. 19), is so small that…
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MAVEN thunders to Space on Journey to Study Red Planet’s Watery History and Potential for Life
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) space probe thundered to space today (Nov. 18)…
Celebrating MAVEN’s Launch, Planetary Style
If you can't attend a rocket launch live, the next best thing might be watching it on a big screen,…
UrtheCast: Cameras for Live Video Views of Planet Earth To Launch Nov. 25
A Canadian camera system aiming to provide near-realtime video views of Earth is readying for a launch from Kazakhstan. If…
Watch MAVEN Launch Live!
Live streaming video by Ustream Once again, we're heading to Mars! At 18:28 UTC (1:28 p.m. EST), NASA's Mars Atmosphere…
Wrist-Sized Bone Scanner Could Fly To The Space Station In 2016
OTTAWA, CANADA - The University of Saskatchewan hopes to fly a wrist-sized MRI to the International Space Station by 2016…
‘Elephant Trunks’ Crowd Distant Star Cluster, Raising New Questions About Stellar Formation
Star winds are pushing the gas around NGC 3572 into "elephant trunks", as you can see if you look carefully as…
A Cosmic Intruder Grabbed Hot Gas From This Galaxy Group
So galaxy group NGC 5044 was just sitting quietly by itself a few million years ago when galaxy NGC 5054 decided…
Comet ISON Grows Wings; Comet Lovejoy, a Fountain
Wonderful photos of Comets ISON and Lovejoy with their swollen comas and developing tails have appeared on these pages, but…