Rare alignment allows Hubble to become a planet hunter

(Source Space Telescope Science Institute) - With the probable demise of the Kepler mission due a failure of the components used…

11 years ago

Supermoon view-able this weekend, Live Webcast

On Sunday (June 23) when the Moon rises it will appear the largest possible this year. No you will not…

11 years ago

Stand on Mars in Virtual Billion Pixel Viewer

An impressive tool, available to anyone on the internet, has been published by NASA which allows you to virtually stand…

11 years ago

SLS Starts Preliminary Design Review

All programs undergo certain milestones as they progress. One of the earliest is the Preliminary Design Review or PDR. This…

11 years ago

Hubble image shows collision of galaxies causing them to warp

In this interesting image of two galaxies 326 million light years away, a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy…

11 years ago

SMILE, Cassini to take picture of Earth from Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft which recently celebrated 15 years of success will take a picture of Earth on July 19, 2013. The…

11 years ago

Possible record-setting dead zone for Gulf of Mexico

(Source NOAA)-Scientists are expecting a very large “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico and a smaller than average hypoxic…

11 years ago

River of Sun Spots Emerging as Sun Rotates

As you can see in this image there are a number of sun spots that are in close proximity creating…

11 years ago

China Rocket Docks with Tiangong-1 Space Station

Earlier this month China launched three astronauts on a mission to dock with their Tiangong-1 space module. The Chinese astronauts,…

11 years ago

JWST Mirror Backplane Support Frame Complete, making progress!

It is hard to believe that there was a time when the James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to launch…

11 years ago