NASA’s Glory Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit
NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit. Telemetry indicated the fairing, the protective…
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NASA’s Glory Spacecraft Scheduled for March 4 Launch
NASA’s Glory spacecraft is scheduled for launch on Friday, March 4. Technical issues with ground support equipment for the Taurus XL launch vehicle led to the…
Read the guideWhat Kind of Objects Hit the Earth Each Day?
Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids — fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks – enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Stand out under…
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NASA Releases Images of the Crater Left by Deep Impactor on Comet Tempel 1 in 2005
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has…
Read the guideNASA’s Stardust-NExT Closes in for Valentine’s Day Rendezvous With Comet Tempel 1
NASA is about to discover how solar heat devours a comet. Stardust-NExT chases a comet, an artist’s concept. [more] “For the first time, we’ll see the…
Read the guideNASA’s NanoSail-D Solar Sail Finally Unfurls
In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA’s NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail…
Read the guideNASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy Cluster
Astronomers have discovered a massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the distant universe. The growing galactic metropolis, named COSMOS-AzTEC3, is the most distant known massive…
Read the guidePlanck’s New View of the Cosmos
The first scientific results from ESA’s Planck mission were released at a press briefing today in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the…
Read the guideNASA’s Voyager 1 Sees Solar Wind Decline en Route to Interstellar Space
The 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion…
Read the guideThe Geminid Meteor Shower, December 2010
A Geminid fireball explodes over the Mojave Desert in 2009. Credit: Wally Pacholka / AstroPics.com / TWAN. The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on…
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