Guest Post: NASA’s Sample Return Robot Challenge
Editor's note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology. Imagine…
Help Give the Very Large Array a New Name
[/caption] The iconic Very Large Array is almost as much pop culture as science instrument. It’s been part of movie…
A 3-D Look At Europe’s New Galileo Satellite Navigation System
The European Union and European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the first components next week of the €20 billion Galileo…
Missing Black Holes
[/caption] As astronomers began working out how stars die, they expected that the mass of remnants, whether white dwarfs, neutron…
America vs. Astronaut: The Case of the Lifted Lunar Camera
[/caption] Imagine you're an astronaut. You have what it takes to be selected to fly a mission to the Moon.…
New Dark Matter Census – The Hubble Survey
[/caption] Way off in the constellation of Virgo, galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847 -or MACS 1206 for short - is making…
Taking Mars’ Temperature – The ALH84001 Meteorite
[/caption] It might be four billion years old, but this meteorite which may have originated near the surface of Mars…
NASA to Test New Solar Sail Technology
[/caption] Solar sails, much like anti-matter and ion engines appear at first glance to only exist in science fiction. Many…
The Bad Astronomer Talks Asteroids
Here's a great talk given by our friend Phil Plait at a TED event, TEDxBoulder, about how an asteroid might…
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Daring Russian Sample Return mission to Martian Moon Phobos aims for November Liftoff
[/caption] In just over 3 weeks' time, Russia plans to launch a bold mission to Mars whose objective, if successful…