NASA is inviting social media users to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space…
Read the articleAstronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for…
Read the articleA spectacular fireball crossed the sky over Scotland, Wales and Ireland around 11pm local time on Friday, September 21st. A group of amateur astronomers were at…
Read the articleAdam Steltzner doesn’t sound much like an ordinary engineer. For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity—and explain why the Mars rover…
Read the articleNASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover’s arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8…
Read the articleNASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar. Two new papers, based on observations from the…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 470: Symbiotic variable V4018 Sgr in outburst September 20, 2012 The symbiotic variable V4018 Sgr is undergoing an outburst, according to observations reported…
Read the articleUpdated: September 20, 2012. The article below was originally written in March 2011. Since then, in March 2012, NetFlix opened up for business in the UK…
Read the articleThe 2012 edition of the “Cassini Scientist for a Day” competition is now open to entry from students. The competition is designed to give the participants…
Read the articleNASA’s long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week…
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