Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high

  Mars’ Whirling Dust Devil A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) high was captured winding its way…

13 years ago

New Surface Features Seen on Giant Asteroid Vesta

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and…

13 years ago

Mars Curiosity Rover nears half way point to Mars

  These computer simulations show the Mars Science Laboratory's current position on the journey between Earth and Mars. NASA's next…

13 years ago

Northeast Coast of U.S. to get rare opportunity to see rocket launch

UPDATE - Countdown to Begin For Five Sounding Rockets to Illuminate Eastern U.S. Night Sky 03.20.12 - NASA managers have…

13 years ago

Small Black Hole causes 2 Million MPH wind

NASA's Chandra Finds Fastest Wind from Stellar Mass Black Hole WASHINGTON - Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked…

13 years ago

China will place Astronauts on their space lab in August

China placed a space lab Tiangong-1 int orbit last September 2011, were you paying attention? It has been on orbit…

13 years ago

Video of Tornados on the Sun..too cool to miss

Recent Video from SDO will make earthbound tornado chasers envious. SDO recently captured some astounding videos of tornados on the…

13 years ago

Cubesats making their way into low earth orbit

Tiny cube satellites or cubesats are making there way into orbit. The image above is typical of cubesats that are…

13 years ago

Fifty years ago John Glenn First American in space

Fifty years ago Americas first astronaut went into space.  On Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, Glenn launched from…

13 years ago

First Planck all-sky carbon monoxide (CO) image

All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck This all-sky image shows the distribution of…

13 years ago