Japanese Solar Sail Deploys Successfully
[/caption] New images and data from the IKAROS solar sail show the thin solar film has deployed and expanded successfully…
Life-size Wooden Spacecraft Sculptures
[/caption] If you think about it, spacecraft are kind of ethereal in that once they are launched into space, we…
Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly
[/caption] For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves…
Many Famous Comets May be Visitors from Other Solar Systems
[/caption] Most comets are thought to have originated great distances away, traveling to the inner solar system from the Oort…
South Korean Rocket Explodes 137 Seconds Into Flight
A South Korean rocket carrying a climate observation satellite apparently exploded 137 seconds into its flight early Thursday. The two-stage…
Latest Wall Art from Cassini
[/caption] Oh, wow -- what a gorgeous image! Just the latest from our resident artist in space, the Cassini spacecraft.…
Needed: Plutonium-238
[/caption] Sometimes people ask what they, as a regular citizen can do to help NASA. Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary…
Where In The Universe #108
This post is going to serve double duty. First of all, I forgot to mention that the answer for last…
Japanese Firm Designing Futuristic Space Mega-Projects
[/caption] Space based solar power? How about a Moon-based solar collector that would beam energy back to Earth. This is…
Get Your Mars (and HiRISE) Fix With Over 600 New Images
[/caption] Mmmm, Mars. And lots of it, too! The team from one of our all-time favorite scientific instruments, the HiRISE…