Juno Mission Launches to Jupiter
NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) Friday to begin a five-year…
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Data From NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Suggest Water Flowing on Mars
Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. An image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows…
Read the article →Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons
The prevailing theory on lunar formation is the giant impact theory which suggests the moon formed when a Mars-sized body slammed into the infant Earth. This…
Read the article →Solar Activity Continues With Significant Flare
For the third day in a row, sunspot 1261 has unleashed a significant M-class solar flare. The latest blast at 0357 UT on August 4th registered…
Read the article →Possible Minor Geomagnetic Storm
On August 2nd, the sun hurled a cloud of plasma (Coronal Mass Ejection – CME) toward Earth when magnetic fields above sunspot 1261 erupted. Analysts expect…
Read the article →NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That…
Read the article →Chandra Observatory Takes Images of Gas Flowing Toward Black Hole
The flow of hot gas toward a black hole has been clearly imaged for the first time in X-rays. The observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory…
Read the article →Water Rains Onto Saturn From Enceladus
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a…
Read the article →Big Sunspots Appear on the Sun
After more than a week of quiescence, solar activity is picking up with the emergence of two large sunspot groups on the sun’s northeastern limb. The…
Read the article →Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Found by Astronomers
Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all…
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