Mercury Fully Revealed By MESSENGER
MESSENGER is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun. On October 6, 2008, at roughly 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER flew by Mercury for the second time this year.
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Mt. Lemon Telescope Picks Up Approaching Space Rock
The Mount Lemon telescope first observed a small space rock early on Monday... the noticed item is actually an asteroid measuring several feet in diameter and the traveler was expected to enter the Earth's atmosphere over northern Sudan just before dawn tomorrow at 5:45 a.m. local time (10:46 p.m. EDT Monday).
Read MoreInterstellar Boundary To Be Breached By NASA’s IBEX
The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch on October 19th.
Read MoreThe Difference Between Planets and Brown Dwarfs
News from The European Space Agency now has all involved rethinking the classification of a discovery by COROT as to whether the find is an exoplanet or brown dwarf. A brown dwarf is a ‘failed star’, a sub-stellar object that is not undergoing nuclear fusion at its core, but displays some stellar characteristics.
Read MoreHubble Hiccup Has Halted Data Delivery
At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, September 28th, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode due to errors being detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
Read MoreNASA Awards Grants for Studying Back to the Future
Grant money has been awarded from NASA to 10 research teams from across the country to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The teams won grants that average US$7 million for a five-year study.
Read MoreNASA Sends a Messenger to Flyby for Retakes of Mercury
NASA will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on October 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and collect science data. The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft will pass 125 miles above the planet's cratered surface, taking more than 1200 pictures. The flyby also will provide a critical gravity assist needed for the probe to become, in March
Read MoreNASA Asks Students to Help with Rover
NASA isn't referring to caring for a dog, rather a new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools or instrument packages that could be used on the next generation of human-driven moon rovers.
Read MoreISS Assists U.S.A.F. With Material Tests
Air Force Research Laboratory officials recently partnered with NASA to conduct materials experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Read MoreDoes NASA Mars’ Lander Need Snow Shoes — Sees Falling Snow
So far NASA doesn't have a requisition order to equip Mars Lander with snow shoes, but snow falling from Martian clouds has been detected. Spacecraft soil test experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
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