Looking at Early Black Holes with a ‘Time Machine’
[/caption] What fed early black holes enabling their very rapid growth? A new discovery made by researchers at Carnegie Mellon…
Third Rock – NASA’s Cool New Internet Radio Station
[/caption] If you love space and love internet radio, as I do, then this is for you. NASA's new internet…
Particle Physicists Put the Squeeze on the Higgs Boson; Look for Conclusive Results in 2012
[/caption] With “freshly squeezed” plots from the latest data garnered by two particle physics experiments, teams of scientists from the…
- Asteroids
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Jupiter
- Kennedy Space Center
- Missions
- NASA
- Planetary Formation
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
Dawn swoops to lowest orbit around Vesta – Unveiling Spectacular Alien World
[/caption] NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter successfully spiraled down today to the closest orbit the probe will ever achieve around the…
A Day in the Sun: Will It Make a Difference for Russia’s Phobos-Grunt?
[/caption] Editor’s note: Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the US team from the LIFE experiment on board the…
Michael Mann on Climate: “There’s Still Time to Make the Right Choices”
Climate scientist Michael Mann from Penn State recently spoke at a TED event, and what he says in this video…
A Blood-Red Moon
[/caption] Photographer Joseph Brimacombe created this stunning image of a ruddy Moon made during the total lunar eclipse of December…
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog is Now Online!
[/caption] Anyone who has an interest in exoplanets probably knows about the various online catalogs that have become available in…
Geminid Meteor Shower Reminder and There’s An App For That!
[/caption] Have you been watching the Geminid Meteor Shower? With just hours to go before the peak, activity has been…