First Public Mars Images Released
Image credit: NASA/JPL For the past few weeks, NASA has been letting the public select targets for the Mars Global…
Galileo Will Plunge Into Jupiter on September 21
Image credit: NASA/JPL Time is running out for NASA's Galileo spacecraft. After eight years of loyal service imaging Jupiter and…
Iraq Oil Fire Seen From Space
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Envisat environmental satellite captured this image of a burning oil pipeline in northern…
NASA Starts Packing up Columbia Debris
With the Columbia accident investigation largely complete, workers at the Kennedy Space Center have begun packing up the 84,000 pieces…
NASA Proposes to Search for Smaller Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL Five years ago NASA began a program to discover 90% of potential Earth-crossing asteroids larger than 1…
Satellites Help Forecasters Predict Hurricanes
Image credit: NASA Weather forecasters are turning to data from a fleet of satellites to help predict how conditions might…
NASA Approves Mirror for James Webb Telescope
Image credit: NASA NASA announced today that it has selected a beryllium-based mirror technology for the 6.5 mirror on the…
Titan Launches Secret Satellite
The US Air Force launched a secret satellite cargo early Tuesday morning on board a Titan IV-B rocket. The satellite…
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…