Off to Florida for the Shuttle Launch
[/caption] It might surprise you to know that I've never been to a rocket launch. Even though I've been publishing…
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Lockheed Accelerates Orion to Achieve 2013 launch and potential 2016 Manned Lunar Flyby
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Despite utilizing just half the work force originally planned and cutting back further on the…
Russia Has Concerns for SpaceX Safety for Docking to ISS
[/caption] While a test of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft docking capabilities with the International Space Station is tentatively scheduled for December,…
Budget Woes Put SETI’s Allen Telescope Array into “Hibernation”
[/caption] SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has suffered a big blow. The primary alien search engine --the Allen Telescope…
Is Winking Near-Earth Asteroid GP59 Really the Missing Apollo 13 Panel?
[/caption] Is the recently discovered "winking" asteroid - GP59 - really the missing panel from the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission?…
Latest Saturnian Eye Candy from Cassini
[/caption] Two moons and Saturn's rings create a lopsided "divided by" symbol on the giant planet in one of the…
Lingering Lyrids…
[/caption] Although we couldn't remind you just before the date of the Lyrid meteor shower peak, there's no reason to…
Year One of the Solar Dynamics Observatory – Vote for Your Favorite Solar Events
Over the past year, the Sun has gone from one of quietest periods in decades to the ramping up of…
And Now Exo-magnetospheres
[/caption] New observations of one of the biggest and hottest known exoplanets in the galaxy, WASP 12b, suggest that it…