Water Ice Found on Another Asteroid
[/caption] There could be a lot more water out there than anyone thought. A second asteroid has been found to…
What is Gravitational Force?
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is used to explain gravitational force. This law states that every massive particle in the…
Optimus Prime Defends Kennedy Space Center! Transformers 3 Filming at Spaceport
[/caption] NASA’s Kennedy Space Center came under attack from the merciless Decepticons this week. However, Optimus Prime and his valiant…
Soyuz Launches; Discovery’s Final Payload Delivered to Launch Pad
[/caption] October 7 was a busy day in spaceflight, as a Soyuz launched 2 cosmonauts and 1 astronaut to the…
JAXA: Hayabusa Capsule Contains Particles, Maybe of Asteroid
[/caption] At a press conference yesterday, officials from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that they had "scraped up"…
Titan’s Atmosphere Could Produce Building Blocks of Life
[/caption] Saturn’s moon Titan has long been thought to be an analog of early Earth, and a recent experiment demonstrates…
Could a Human Mars Mission Be Funded Commercially?
[/caption] What will it take to actually get humans to Mars? The best answer is probably money. The right amount…
Hawking(ish) Radiation Observed
In 1974, Steven Hawking proposed a seemingly ridiculous hypothesis. Black holes, the gravitational monsters from which nothing escapes, evaporate. To…
Hubble: Helium Reionization Was a Hot Time in the Ol’ Universe
[/caption] Using Hubble’s newest tool, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), researchers have nailed down and enhanced our understanding of the…
Comet Hartley 2 Scouted by WISE, Hubble for Upcoming Encounter
[/caption] In a little less than a month, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft (its current mission is called EPOXI) will fly…