Hansen on Climate: “We need to make clear to the public what’s really going on”
[/caption] Editor's note: This interview is from DailyClimate.org and Climate Query is a semi-weekly feature offered by Daily Climate, presenting…
Cassini Takes a Closer Look at Titan’s Sand Dunes
[/caption] Titan is a world that is amazingly Earth-like in some ways, with rain, rivers, lakes and seas. Mind you,…
What Causes Aurora?
Will you be seeing an aurora tonight? Yesterday, January 23, 2012, an M8.7-class flare erupted from the Sun and sent…
8 Years on Mars: Downloadable Rover Poster
8 years ago today, January 24, the Opportunity rover landed on Mars. In what has become a tradition, Stu Atkinson…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 249: Schrödinger’s Cat
You've probably all heard of Schrödinger's Cat, that bizarre thought experiment designed by Erwin Schrödinger to show how the strange…
Can Solar Flares Hurt Astronauts?
[/caption] Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, high-energy photons, cosmic rays... space is full of various forms of radiation that a…
Young Magnetic Star Possesses Precise Carbon Dioxide Ring
[/caption] Catching a ring - or accretion disk - around a star isn't unusual. However, catching a sharply defined carbon-dioxide…
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Opportunity arrives at Greeley Haven – 5th Winter Haven Worksite on Mars
[/caption] NASA’s seemingly indestructible Opportunity rover has arrived at the breathtaking location where she’ll be working through her unfathomable 5th…
Voyager Mission Is Cooling Its Jets
[/caption] Or, more appropriately, Voyager 1 is cooling its instruments. To help conserve power, the mission managers at NASA have…
Carnival of Space #233
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Bill Dunford at Riding with Robots on the High Frontier. Click here…