Mars Rover Lasers Drill Remnants to Analyze Chemicals

The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was used to check the composition of gray tailings…

11 years ago

Crystal Clear Images of Mercury look very Moon like

At a glance this extreamly crisp image may look like Earth's Moon but it is actually Mercury. The image was…

11 years ago

Hubble Uncovers Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction

(Source NASA) - Nearly 900 extrasolar planets have been confirmed to date, but now for the first time astronomers think…

11 years ago

China Launches Rocket placing Three Astronauts in orbit

China launched it's Shenzhou-10 rocket into orbit with three astronauts or “Taikonauts” on board to dock with their Chinese-owned module called Tiangong-1. Currently…

11 years ago

Hubble maps 3D Ejected material around star eruption

(Source NASA) - A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure…

11 years ago

Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant in Earliest Stars

(Source NASA) - By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team of…

11 years ago

How to get a job at NASA – Series Part 3 – The Interview

If you manage to get this far it means that you are a serious candidate for a job, so take…

11 years ago

NASA Partners with LEGO to build Satellite out of LEGOs (Sort of)

Some cool space related things have been done with LEGOs in the past including the LEGO man in space. Now…

11 years ago

JWST has its Eyes to the Universe Installed

Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,…

11 years ago

Hubble Captures Comet ISON, Possibly Comet of the Century

(Source NASA and STScI) - Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes…

11 years ago