New Movie Revives Old Voyager Data of Jupiter’s Clouds
I remember, some time after Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter, of seeing a television show that played a movie of…
Best-Ever Radio Image of Black Hole Jets
[/caption] A new image taken by an array of radio telescopes is the best resolution view ever of particle jets…
Atlantis Rolls to Vehicle Assembly Building with Final Space Shuttle Crew for July 8 Blastoff
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The end of NASA's shuttle era has begun as pre-launch preparations for the final shuttle…
DARPA Wants Your Ideas for a 100-Year Starship
[/caption] The idea for a 100-year starship has been tossed around recently, and now DARPA the Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Studying Saturn’s Super Storm
[/caption] First seen by amateur astronomers back in December, the powerful seasonal storm that has since bloomed into a planet-wrapping…
GALEX Confirms Nature of Dark Energy
[/caption] From a JPL press release: A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time,…
Miles O’Brien Talks Live with Shuttle/Station Crew
Miles O'Brien, now with PBS NewHour did a live interview with a few members of the STS-134 crew, along with…
AMS Now Attached to the Space Station, Ready to Observe the Invisible Universe
The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation,…
Dazzling Timelapse: Canary Skies
Tenerife, Canary Islands is home to several telescopes and at 2,000 meters above sea level, it claims one of the…
Watch SpaceShipTwo’s First Feathered Flight
On May 4, 2011 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone by flying for the first time using its "feathered"…