There Was a Reason Discovery’s Rollout Took Longer Than Usual…
[/caption] Yikes! No wonder the rollout of space shuttle Discovery took a little bit longer than usual. Lightning lit up…
New View Toward Carina Reveals Star Fest, Exploding “Engine”
A remarkable new view of the Milky Way toward the constellation Carina is alive with a flurry of stars --…
Ares I-X Comes Together (and it is BIG)
[/caption] The Ares I-X rocket is being stacked on the Mobile Launch Platform in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building in preparation…
LCROSS Sees Life on Earth
[/caption] The LCROSS spacecraft took a look back at Earth, and guess what it saw? Evidence of intelligence? Not so…
First Tweets from the ISS
[/caption] Listen my children and you shall hear Tweets coming from up above our Earthly sphere. The newest International Space…
Plains of Titan to be Named for “Dune” Novels
[/caption] Titan's mysterious dark plains will be named after planets in the series of "Dune" science fiction novels by author…
Earth’s Twin
[/caption] Scientists call Venus Earth's twin planet and for good reason. Our two planets are similar in size, mass, density,…
Characteristics of Venus
[/caption] Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and considered in many ways to be a twin planet of…
Landings on Venus
Venus might look like a virtual twin of the Earth in terms of size, but its temperature and atmosphere make…
Satellites of Venus
[/caption] Earth has the Moon, Mars has two moons, and even tiny Pluto has 3 satellites. So how many satellites…