NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications. Following the recommendations of an independent…
Read the articleThe Discovery Channel Store is having a 2-Day Sale over Feb 23/24. You can get $10 off $60 with Coupon Code FEB10, $15 off $75 with…
Read the articleThe sudden emergence of big sunspot 1045 over the weekend has caused a sharp upsurge in solar activity. The active region has produced three M-class and…
Read the articleNASA’s Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday.…
Read the articleOn Monday, Jan. 14, a pioneering NASA spacecraft was the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years when it soared over the planet to explore…
Read the articleJan. 26, 2010: After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot.…
Read the articleIt rises in the east at sunset, pumpkin-orange and brighter than a first magnitude star. You stare at it, unblinking. Unblinking, it stares right back. It…
Read the articleThe Moon is about to pass directly in front of the sun, producing an annular solar eclipse on Jan. 15th between 05:00 and 09:00 GMT. The…
Read the articleAn artist’s concept of an exoplanet. Image credit: ESO. January 14, 2010: The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope, will launch…
Read the articleA curious object is about to fly past Earth only one-third the distance to the Moon. Cataloged as a 10m-class asteroid, 2010 AL30 has an orbital…
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