<p>In early June the Mars500 crew celebrated their one full year inside the modules simulating an interplanetary spaceship. They are now flying virtually back to Earth and due to a
<p>Imagine forecasting a hurricane in Miami weeks before the storm was even a swirl of clouds off the coast of Africa or predicting a tornado in Kansas from the flutter
<p>NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch onboard a Delta II rocket from Cape
<p>Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature provide new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since late March. NASA’s
<p>Scientists using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered six “Y dwarfs”– star-like bodies with temperatures as cool as the human body. </p> <p style="text-align:center" class=small><br /> This artist’s
AAVSO Alert Notice 445<br /> Request for monitoring of SS Cygni in support of European VLBI radio observations<br /> August 19, 2011 <p>Following their very successful multiwavelength observing campaign on the dwarf nova
<p>For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized
<p>In a few years a NASA spacecraft will seek the building blocks of life in a shovelful of asteroid dirt. The OSIRIS-REx1 spacecraft, targeted for launch in September 2016, will
<p>Astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson was on Bill Maher’s show a little over a week ago, and he had something to say about plans to slash NASA’s budget, including doing away