Huge Solar Sail Portion Unfurls In Crucial Ground Test
We're sure the people in that picture above must have had sweaty hands as they unfurled a huge solar sail…
Overnight Aurora Sets Sky On Fire, More Possible Tonight
I'm writing this at 1:30 a.m. running on what's powering the sky over northern Minnesota right now - auroral energy.…
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Government Shutdown Stops MAVEN Work; Threatens NASA Mars Launch!
The upcoming Nov. 18 blastoff of NASA’s new MAVEN Mars orbiter is threatened by today’s US Federal Government shutdown. Launch…
Uranus: A Guide to its 2013 Opposition
Up for a challenge? Got a big 12” light bucket of a Dobsonian telescope and looking for something new to…
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Navigating the Cosmos by Quasar
50 million light-years away a quasar resides in the hub of galaxy NGC 4438, an incredibly bright source of light…
SpaceX Says Falcon 9 Upper Stage Did Not Explode in Orbit (and it wasn’t a UFO, either)
When the US Space Surveillance Network indicated they were tracking additional objects in orbit following Sunday’s maiden launch of SpaceX’s…
55 Years of NASA
Today is NASA's 55th birthday. Unfortunately, the celebration is muted due to the government shutdown, forcing much of NASA to…
This Very Old Cosmic Light Has A Bend To It
Leftover radiation from the Big Bang -- that expansion that kick-started the universe -- can be bent by huge cosmic…
What Does The Government Shutdown Mean For NASA?
A forthcoming NASA launch to Mars could be in danger of losing its launch window should a shutdown in the…
First Cloudy Alien Planet Spotted From Earth
Call it cloudy with a low chance of meatballs. The alien world Kepler-7b -- a very reflective world in big…