Phoenix Will Try New “Sprinkle” Technique
Phoenix "vibrates" to move soil through a screen. New motto for the Phoenix spacecraft: If at first you don't succeed,…
Can Light be “Squeezed” to Improve Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors?
The search is on to detect the first evidence of gravitational waves travelling around the cosmos. How can we do…
Where Is the New Horizons Spacecraft?
Even though New Horizons is the speediest spacecraft ever to travel through our solar system, it still has a long…
Hanny’s Voorwerp – Still Alive and Kicking….
Back a few month's ago, we had an article about Galaxy Zoo. In essence, it's a type of consortium that…
Mystery Moonlets Cause Constant Changes in Saturn’s F Ring
Scientists from the Cassini mission are finding Saturn's rings to be very dynamic; constantly changing and evolving. This is especially…
Listen to Terra Chat Live Tonight: 2012 and the Mayan Prophecy (Updated)
Update (Monday, June 9th): Listen to the recorded show from last night (June 8th) with Colin Knight and myself. In…
Can a Wormhole Generate its Own Magnetic Field?
Wormholes are a strange consequence of Einstein's theory of general relativity. These "shortcuts" through the fabric of space and time…
Images From The STS-124 Mission
The crew of the STS-124 mission has been busy installing equipment on the International Space Station, fixing a toilet, and…
Temperature of Mars
[/caption] Mars is farther from the Sun than the Earth, so, as you would expect, the temperature of Mars is…
Possible Solution to Solar Flare Damage to Satellites
When a solar flare blasts energetic particles and magnetic flux at Earth, our satellites are on the front line. As…