Frozen Britain and Not So Frozen Ireland
This striking image taken by NASA’s Terra satellite on 7 January shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current cold snap. While the UK…
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Kepler Space Telecope Discovers Five Exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond…
Read the article →Flash of Light From Titan
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has photographed a flash of sunlight reflecting from a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid hydrocarbons on a part…
Read the article →Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light
A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA’s THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains…
Read the article →AAVSO Alert Notice 414: Request for Observations of V405 Peg
AAVSO Alert Notice 414: Request for Observations of V405 Peg December 17, 2009 Dr. Axel Schwope (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam) requests time-series monitoring of the magnetic cataclysmic…
Read the article →NASA Discoveries in 2009
2009 was another trailblazing year for NASA as America’s space agency reached a number of important milestones on Earth and in space. During the year, NASA…
Read the article →NASA Challenges Amateur Rocket Makers
NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities — 37 teams nationwide — to take part in the…
Read the article →NASA Moon Work Design Contest
Talented engineering students who have ideas on how future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working at NASA as paid interns. The 2010…
Read the article →Sandtrapped Mars Rover Makes a Big Discovery
Spirit surveys its own predicament. The bright soil pictured left is loose, fluffy material churned by the rover’s left-front wheel as Spirit, driving backwards, broke through…
Read the article →Why Did Mars Dry Up?
Once upon a time – roughly four billion years ago – Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface…
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