<p style="text-align:center" class="small"></p> <p>The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.</p> <p>The
<p style="text-align:center" class="small"></p> <p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.</p> <p>In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane’s
<p>NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings.</p> <p>These observations make Saturn’s rings the only location besides
<p>An amateur video of a concert in Salta, Argentina captured footage of a meteor exploding in the night sky, lighting the sky briefly on April 21, 2013.</p> <p>The spectacle happened at
<p>SpaceX’s Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap.</p> <p>Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return
<p>The Solar System is a beautiful place filled with wonders that NASA space probes are only beginning to discover. There’s a tendency, though, for people to become indifferent; every
<p>Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope has just obtained a
<p>A patchwork network of frozen ridges and troughs cover the face of Enceladus, Saturn’s most enigmatic of icy moons.</p> <p>This face-on colour view of Enceladus was taken by the international Cassini
<p>Anticipation is building as Comet ISON plunges into the inner solar system for a close encounter with the sun in November 2013. Blasted at point-blank range by solar radiation, the
<p>New views of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment have been unveiled by ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope. </p> <p style="text-align:center" class="small" style="margin-bottom:8px;"><br /> Stunning new