Astronaut On Board ISS Gets Word of Mother’s Death
[/caption] ISS astronaut Paolo Nespoli from Italy received some sad news while in orbit on the International Space Station: his…
Hubble Captures Ancient Beauty: M5
[/caption] This is just plain pretty. You’re looking at some of the oldest stars in the Universe. This new Hubble…
Satellite Imagery Shows How Tornadoes Slashed Across Alabama, Mississippi
[/caption] Some extraordinary satellite and radar imagery shows how the deadly tornado supercell slashed through Alabama and Mississippi last week,…
What’s Up in the May Nighttime Skies?
Jane Houston Jones from JPL provides a preview of what you can expect to see in the night skies in…
A New Spin on Galactic Evolution
There's a new concept in the works regarding the evolution of galactic arms and how they move across the…
Behind the Scenes at SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) took members of the media on a tour of Launch Complex 40,…
Transiting Super-Earth Detected Around Naked Eye Star
One of the first known stars to host an extrasolar planet, was that of 55 Cancri. The first planet in…
Endeavour’s Final Launch further delayed another Week or more
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The final launch of shuttle Endeavour will be further delayed, perhaps by a week or…
Timelapse: Shuttle RSS Retract
Here's an amazing, quick look at the Rotating Service Structure being moved away from around space shuttle Endeavour late last…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Magnetic Fields
[/caption] The mention of cosmic-scale magnetic fields is still likely to met with an uncomfortable silence in some astronomical circles…