Sequester Cancels NASA Outreach
Well, it looks like it's finally happened: the U.S. sequester -- a "series of across-the-board cuts to government agencies totaling…
Meet Hopper: A Key Player in the Planck Discovery Story
Behind every modern tale of cosmological discovery is the supercomputer that made it possible. Such was the case with the…
MESSENGER Sees a Smoother Side of Mercury
During its two years in orbit around Mercury -- as well as several more years performing flybys -- the MESSENGER…
Planck’s Cosmic Map Reveals Universe Older, Expanding More Slowly
Like archaeologists sifting through the dust of ancient civilizations, scientists with the ESA Planck mission today showed a map of…
Apollo Rocket Engines Recovered from Atlantic Ocean Floor
Last year, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos announced that he had located some of the Apollo F-1 rocket engines and planned…
Keeping up with Comet PANSTARRS through the end of March
Wow - what an image! Michael Jaeger's photo of Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS on March 19 resembles those taken by…
Astrophoto: Stunning Northern Norway Aurora
Photographer Frank Olsen from Norway was feeling left out of the recent auroral activity from the Sun's activity last Friday,…
Scientists Say Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System, But Has It Really?
A new paper out today reports that the Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have traveled beyond the influence of the…
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U.S. To Restart Plutonium Production for Deep Space Exploration
The end of NASA’s plutonium shortage may be in sight. On Monday March 18th, NASA’s planetary science division head Jim…
Grand Spiral Galaxy Graced By Faded Supernova
One of the most lovely deep space objects to observe is the grand-design spiral galaxy and there are few so…