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