100th Launch to the International Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-19 vehicle blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today to bring three new crew members to the…
How Did Mercury Get its Name?
[/caption] Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. But here's a question, how did Mercury get…
Tooth Extraction With a Rocket
All that needs to be said is that this is the greatest You Tube video I have ever seen.
Unusual Views of the Soyuz Rocket
[/caption] Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will launch to the International Space Station later today, and astronauts Douglas…
New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates
[/caption] The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in…
Subaru Telescope Takes Montage of Hayabusa’s Return to Earth
[/caption] The world watched and waited for the Hayabusa spacecraft to make its return to Earth on June 13, 2010…
Vast Oceans Likely Covered One Third of Mars
[/caption] Like rising waters from a flood, the evidence for past water on Mars --- and large amounts of it…
Latest Satellite Views of Oil Leak, Plus Dramatic Video of Where the Oil May End Up
[/caption] 56 days into the the still-leaking Deepwater Horizon oil well spill in the Gulf of Mexico, satellite views are…
Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets
[/caption] The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) spacecraft has been busy, and using this exoplanet-finding-machine astronomers recently found six new…
Water Could Be Widespread in Moon’s Interior
[/caption] A new look at Moon rocks from the Apollo missions, along with a lunar meteorite show a much higher…