NASA Awards $825 Million Contract for Hubble Successor
Image credit: NASA NASA announced today that it has awarded an $825 million contract to aerospace firm TRW to build…
Japanese H-IIA Launches
Image credit: NASDA A Japanese H-2A rocket successfully launched from Tanegashima Space Center today, carrying two experimental satellites. It launched…
Grace Maps the Earth’s Gravitational Field
The US-German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission (aka Grace) has taken the last two weeks to produce the most…
NASA Highlights New Ways to Journey Through Space
Image credit: NASA As everybody knows, chemical rockets are too slow for space exploration. So, to speed up voyages around…
Bass Ejected from Space Mission
Russian space officials sent a letter to their partners today, announcing that astronaut candidate, and 'N Sync member, Lance Bass…
Don’t Worry, Everything’s Fine
I apologize for the extensive delays in the last month. I've had a series of problems conspire together to keep…
Comets May Break up More Often than Thought
Image credit: SOHO Researchers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe that comets may break up several times before being consumed…
Supernova Remnant Seen Through Chandra
Image credit: Chandra The Chandra X-Ray Observatory recently captured a fascinating image of the Tycho supernova remnant. The 20 million…
Experts Estimate Asteroid Risk
At a NASA-sponsored conference, a group of experts have estimated that the Earth is struck once every 1,000 years by…
Hubble Images an Unusual “Wheel” Galaxy
Image credit: Hubble The latest photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is of a rare type of galaxy, known…