Amy Shira Teitel
Earth’s Other Moons
[/caption] In the fall of 2006, observers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona found an object orbiting the Earth.…
Missions that Weren’t: NASA’s Manned Mission to Venus
[/caption] In the mid-1960s, before any Apollo hardware had flown with a crew, NASA was looking ahead and planning its…
Boris Chertok, Rocket Pioneer, Dies at 99
[/caption] Boris Chertok was an integral member of the team responsible for the Soviet Union’s early success in space; the…
New Submillimetre Camera Sheds Light on the Dark Regions of the Universe
[/caption] The stars and faint galaxies you see when you look up at the night sky are all emitting light…
Astronomers Find the Most Supermassive Black Holes Yet
[/caption] For years, astronomer Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin have been…
Are Gas-Formed Gullies the Norm on Mars?
[/caption] In June 2000, Martian imaging scientists made a striking discovery -- data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft found…
Good and Bad News Comes With NASA’s 2012 Budget
[/caption] On November 14, President Obama signed an Appropriations bill that solidified NASA's budget for fiscal year 2012. The space…
The Human Cost of Russia’s Lost Spacecraft
[/caption] It hasn’t been a great year for Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. In the last twelve months, it…
Could Electrical Sprites Hold the Key to Extraterrestrial Life?
[/caption] In 1989, meteorologists discovered sprites. Not the spirits, elves, or pixies that pepper Shakespearean comedies but their equally…