– Ever have one of those days where you just wanna be alone, maybe have the planet to yourself? Well, based on sheer numbers, there may be a planet just for you. Astronomers at the Uni... Read more
NASA has posted an image of its new solar-electric propulsion thruster, which uses xenon ions for propulsion. The engine in the photo, blue with the glow of xenon gas, is being considered to... Read more
The 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 will give Earth a close shave today, coming within 17,200 miles of our planet, and you can watch it live online. The space rock will be at its closest ap... Read more
Things got dicey in the command centers of the GOES-East weather satellite on September 23. Mission controllers with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in so... Read more
A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet — a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock. The rover,... Read more
There were a lot of things that launched the environmental movement 40-some years ago—the pea-soup shroud of smog that used to hang over L.A., the sight of Ohio’s Cuyahoga River on fire. But... Read more
While most celebrated the new year with champagne and confetti, the folks at NASA rung in 2012 with a new mission in space exploration. Over the weekend, two of NASA’s Gravity Recovery... Read more
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines hauled key parts of the launch vehicle utilized for NASA’s historic, multibillion-dollar mission to Mars. The carrier, which has worked with NASA in the past, e... Read more