Elizabeth Howell
Hubble Makes ‘Pillars Of Creation’ Look Better Than Ever
When you look at that image on the right, make sure to thank the STS-125 crew. And all the people…
Dream Chaser Spacecraft Maker Loses NASA Crew Contract Protest
Update, 4 p.m. EST: Sierra Nevada's statement, which was posted after the story was first published, is now mentioned below.…
NASA Robot Runs Into Snag After It’s Unpacked On Space Station
We're all a little scared (in the impressed-with-technology sense!) of Robonaut, that robot on the International Space Station that is…
NASA Mars Landing Craft Idea Is More Than Just Child’s Play
Assuming we can get humans all the way to Mars, how the heck do we land them on the Red…
Infographic: Dragon, Reusable Rockets And Other 2014 SpaceX Milestones
SpaceX has a big year ahead of it. The company not only plans to launch more Dragon cargo spacecraft to…
Asteroids Don’t Break Up Like You Think They Do: Study
The early Solar System was a shooting gallery. Smaller-body collisions happened far more frequently than we see it today, pockmarking…
Surprise! Asteroid Crashes And Raindrop Splashes Look Almost Alike
It's hard to study what an asteroid impact does real-time as you'd need to be looking at the right spot…
The CIA Cheekily Blames Itself For 1950s UFO Sightings
A single aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s accounted for half of all UFO sightings collected by the Air Force…
Where Did Europa’s Water Geyser Go? Hubble Double-Checking Its Work
It was about this time last year that Europa really began to excite us again. Following a sci-fi movie about…
Could Lizard Hands Help Us Clean Up Space Junk?
We've written extensively about the orbital debris problem here on Universe Today. In a nutshell, just about every time we…