Space Shuttle Cleared for Landing
NASA has given the space shuttle Discovery a green light to return to Earth on Monday, August 8th. The agency's…
Massive Asteroids Transformed the Earth’s Surface
At least three massive asteroids smashed into the Earth more than 3.2 billion years ago, and caused such destruction, they…
Book Review: Cold Dark Matter
Ahhh, summer time and the livin' is light and easy. Per chance there's an opportunity to escape the textbooks, computer…
Hubble Sees a Field of Galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope spent 40 hours gazing at the same spot in the sky to produce a photograph filled…
Cassini’s Zips Past the Death Star
NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a relatively close flyby of Saturn's moon Mimas on August 2nd, 2005. The 130 km (80…
Astronaut Successfully Plucks Out Filler From Shuttle’s Belly
Astronaut Steve Robinson successfully pulled out the protruding gap fillers from between the shuttle's thermal protection tiles during his 7…
Spitzer Sees Hidden Black Holes
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has peered through walls of galactic dust to spot supermassive black holes called quasars. Some quasars…
Podcast: Planetary Disk That Refuses to Grow Up
With new instruments, astronomers are filling in all the pieces that help to explain how planets form out of extended…
Audio: Planetary Disk That Refuses to Grow Up
With new instruments, astronomers are filling in all the pieces that help to explain how planets form out of extended…
Astronauts Prepare for Spacewalk to Remove Gap Filler
Astronauts Steve Robinson and Soichi Noguchi made their preparations to head outside the space shuttle Discovery today. This spacewalk had…