NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms Of Ocean Plant Life

Scientists have made a biological discovery in Arctic Ocean waters as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert. A NASA-sponsored expedition punched through three-foot…

NASA’S Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

WASHINGTON — The faint, lumpy glow from the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The objects…

Transit of Venus

Today, June 5th, 2012, At 22:09 UTC, we will be able to see the planet Venus as a small dark dot moving  across the face o the sun. It will…

Speed of light not exceeded after all by CERN…sigh…

OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso About six months ago CERN reported that they had exceeded the speed of light in an…

NASA’S Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision

WASHINGTON — NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our…

NASA Preparing to Launch Its Newest X-ray Eyes

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission…

Light of Alien “Super Earth” seen by Spitzer

  WASHINGTON — NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a “super-Earth” planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the…

What is the future of Spaceflight? SLS, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic?

Looking at the future of manned spaceflight, and even the future of non-manned spaceflight can be confusing. There are so many players building launch capability for the U.S. it can…