China has announced the three people it will be sending up for its first manned docking spaceflight, to be launched Saturday, June 16.…
Double CME headed to Earth from sunspot AR1504
Update 6/15/12 – A beta-gamma-delta field in AR1504 has developed. This could store energy for strong solar flares. NOAA estimates…
Asteroid Flies by Earth Today(6/14/12)!
Today, 6/14/12, A asteroid the size of a city block will fly by the earth. The astrtoid is named 2012…
The world’s Largest Telescope Project Is A Go.
Plans for the mega-telescope named European Extremely Large telescope, or E-ELT, Has taken a large step closer to becoming reality Monday, June 11th. The Plans were…
Jupiter’s Smallest Known Moon
Details of Jupiter’s smallest known moon have been unveiled. The moon, S/2012 J 2, was discovered in September 2010 along with one other moon…
China to Launch First Manned Mission to Orbiting Space Laboratory
China will launch its first manned mission to its orbiting space laboratory in mid-June, according to state media reports and the…
NASA’S Fermi Detects The Highest-Energy Light From A Solar Flare
WASHINGTON — During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever…
NASA Cancels X-Ray Space Telescope
NASA is canceling work on the space telescope designed to find black holes through x-ray light. The decision has come…