Image Caption: An international team led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body (a brown dwarf) ever found outside our own solar system. The team’s findings have been accepted for publ…
Image Caption: Two solid rocket boosters were installed on Jan. 15, 2010, on the Delta IV Launch Vehicle that will carry GOES-P into space. Credit: NASA
Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: Nine months after the Spirit rover sank into a Martian sand trap, NASA mission managers say they don’t expect the troubled traveler to rove any farther.
Mars – NASA – Spirit rover – Alan Boyle – Space
NASA’s Opportunity rover has discovered a peculiar rock on Mars that scientists think originated deep within the red planet.
Mars – Opportunity rover – NASA – Space – Solar System
If we’re going to protect the Earth from an asteroid, we need to find the dangerous ones whizzing about in the emptiness of space. Unfortunately, the United States will not complete the survey of large near-Earth objects by 2020 as mandated, but not…
Image Caption: The STS-129 crew members pictured (clockwise) from bottom left are Commander Charles Hobaugh, Mission Specialists Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert Satcher Jr. and Randy Bresnik, Pilot Barry Wilmore and Mission Specialist Nicole Stott….
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
A daredevil who parachutes from skyscrapers will try to smash the nearly 50-year-old record for the highest ever jump, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall
A commercial space pioneer and a former astronaut are answering claims by an independent advisory panel that private companies do not meet NASA human-rating standards.
If you head outside around 8 p.m. this week and face due east, you’ll see a brilliant, fiery-colored, non-twinkling “star” that immediately will attract your attention. It’s not a star, however, but the planet Mars.
Mars – Earth – Space – Solar System – Astronomy