Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Collapses
July 18, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 422: Observing Campaign on Hubble’s First Variable in M31: M31_V1
AAVSO Alert Notice 422: Observing Campaign on Hubble’s First Variable in M31: M31_V1 July 16, 2010 An observing campaign is being carried out on M31_V1, the…
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MESSENGER Reveals Something New About Mercury
The first spacecraft designed by NASA to orbit Mercury is giving scientists a new perspective on the planet’s atmosphere and evolution. Launched in August 2004, the…
Read the articleRosetta Probe Encounters Asteroid Lutetia
Asteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA’s Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid showing it…
Read the articleTotal Solar Eclipse: July 11, 2010
It’s every vacationer’s dream: You stretch out on a white sandy beach for a luxurious nap under the South Pacific sun. The caw of distant gulls…
Read the articleNASA Launches LCROSS Lunar Impactor
NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater…
Read the article“New Horizons” Probe Wakes Up in Exotic Territory
An artist’s concept of New Horizons. Zipping through space at nearly a million miles per day, NASA’s New Horizons probe is halfway to Pluto and just…
Read the articleStrange Martian Spirals Explained
Mariner 9 image of the north polar cap of Mars. The image was taken on 12 October 1972, about one-half Martian month after summer solstice, at…
Read the articleMysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris Cloud
Detailed observations made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. It came from a…
Read the articleNASA Releases Kepler Data on Potential ExtraSolar Planets
NASA’s Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes as part…
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