 Fragmenting Comet Won't Hit Earth April 27, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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There will be no tsunamis, firestorms or mass extinctions to spoil your Memorial Day weekend. Although the Internet is rife with speculation that a fragment of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 will strike the ... | |
 ESA’s Cluster flies through Earth’s electrical switch May 19, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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ESA’s Cluster satellites have flown through regions of the Earth’s magnetic field that accelerate electrons to approximately one hundredth the speed of light. The observations present Cluster scientists with ... | |
 Ancient caldera in Apollinaris Patera June 09, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the caldera of Apollinaris Patera, an ancient, 5-kilometer-high volcano northwest of Gusev Crater. | |
 Flying over the cloudy world -- science updates from Venus Express July 12, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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On 20 April 2006, after its first 9-day, elongated orbit around Venus, ESA's Venus Express started to get closer to the planet, until it reached its final 24-hour long orbit on 7 May. During this time, and ... | |
 Shuttle Discovery Returns to Earth After Successful Mission November 07, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Wednesday at 1:01 p.m. EST after completing a 15-day journey of more than 6.2 million miles in space. Discovery's STS-120 ... | |
Arecibo astronomers prepare to obtain close images of a near-Earth asteroid January 25, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico will observe a newly discovered asteroid on Jan. 27-28, as the object called 2007 TU24 passes within 1.4 lunar distances, or 334,000 miles, from Earth. | |
 Mars Rovers Survive Severe Dust Storms, Ready for Next Objectives September 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity’s planned descent into ... | |
 Preventing 'Sick' Spaceships May 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Picture this: You're one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent electrical outages. So you ... | |
Celestial clues hint at eclipse in Homer's Odyssey June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Among countless other debates about Homer's Odyssey -- not the least of which is whether the entire poem can be attributed to Homer himself -- is whether Odysseus returns home to experience a total solar eclipse. But a Rockefeller ... | |
Dig deeper to find Martian life January 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Probes designed to find life on Mars do not drill deep enough to find the living cells that scientists believe may exist well below the surface of Mars, according to research led by UCL (University College London). Although ... | |
 Hunting martian fossils best bet for locating Mars life, researcher says February 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Hunting for traces of life on Mars calls for two radically different strategies, says Arizona State University professor Jack Farmer. Of the two, he says, with today’s exploration technology we can most easily ... | |
 Hot spot on Enceladus causes plumes December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after ... | |
 The Sky is Falling May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. They literally fall out ... | |
 Martian dust storm threatens rovers' survival July 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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In the three-and-a-half years that they've been on Mars, the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity have never seen anything like this: a large-scale dust storm that has darkened the skies and put the rovers in ... | |
 MESSENGER set for historic Mercury flyby January 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, when the MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun’s closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions ... | |
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