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The View from Mars
The Phoenix Lander is in full science mode as it continues its mission on Mars. It’s been providing a steady stream of informative updates on its mission via its Twitter profile. There have a been a...
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Follow Other NASA Missions on Twitter
NASA’s Phoenix Lander mission to Mars has been a huge success thus far. Most everything has gone according to plan and many aspects of the Lander have exceeded expectations. One of the biggest...
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Hurricane Pictures From Space
I marvel at the beauty of a fully formed, spiraling hurricane. They are living, breathing things as they methodically trek across the seas. And while the view from the ground is fear-inducing, the view...
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The End of the World Will Just Have to Wait
A mere 36 hours after it was turned on, the Large Hadron Collider has been shut down after a faulty electronic connection led to some damage. The Collider operates at absolute zero for optimum...
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RIP Mars Phoenix
The first glimpse of water-ice on Mars Earlier this month, the Mars Phoenix Lander went silent, losing its battle against the cold, dark Martian winter. NASA has continued to listen for signs of life...
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So if They Are Still Discovering Life on This Planet…
Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus I always enjoy science stories where they find a new species somewhere or find life taking hold in the most inhospitable places on Earth where scientist thought...
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Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunset Over Water
This amazing photo was taken earlier this week over Manila Bay in the Philippines. The Moon eclipsed part of the Sun and was visible in many regions throughout Africa, Asia, and Australia. If you’re...
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Kepler Mission Set to Launch This Friday
Kepler Mission: A search for habitable planets. This Friday, NASA will launch the $605 million Kepler mission. The main goal of the Kepler mission will be to scan approximately 100,000 stars looking...
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Dangerous Shuttle Mission to Fix Hubble
The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center yesterday in a dangerous mission to fix the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. This mission is so dangerous that it was actually already...
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Jupiter and Friends
In mid-September Jupiter made its closest approach to Earth 50 years and is still relatively close. If you look east in the early night sky, the brightest object in the sky (that isn’t our moon) is...
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