Electrons Surfing on a Solar Wind
Image credit: NASA New research indicates that electrons may surf on magnetic waves driven by the solar wind, and get…
Sunlight Spins Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL Astronomers have long-held that collisions were the primary cause of spinning asteroids, but new research indicates that…
Hubble Helps Prepare Rosetta Mission
Image credit: ESA The Hubble Space Telescope has been making detailed observations of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - the new target for…
Shuttles Will Return to Flight in March
NASA representatives met with the media on Monday and announced that the space shuttle would begin operations again some time…
Three Views of Saturn
Image credit: Hubble The planet Saturn reached its maximum tilt towards the Earth last Spring, and astronomers took advantage of…
Hubble Sees Distant Icy Objects
Image credit: Hubble Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered three of the faintest and small objects ever seen…
Senate Approves $15.3 Billion Budget for NASA
Image credit: NASA On the heels of the release of the Columbia Accident Investigation report, the United Stats Senate Appropriations…
Asteroids are Probably a Threat. Maybe?
Image credit: NASA As potentially killer asteroids are announced on an almost yearly basis, the public is started to get…
Keck Gets a Clear View of Asteroid (511) Davida
Image credit: Keck A team of astronomers have used the 10-metre Keck II telescope to create a series of images…
Hubble Took Its Time Watching This Galaxy
Image credit: Hubble The latest image released from the Hubble Space Telescope is of the spiral galaxy NGC 3370, located…