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…
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…