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What’s NASA crashing into next?
Last year the infamous NASA LCROSS mission gained attention as the unmanned space probe was set on a collision course with the lunar surface. On October 9 2009, viewers watched as footage of the...
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How to Catch a Comet
There is plenty of excitement for NASA this week with both manned and unmanned missions sharing the limelight. Avid shuttle watchers are eagerly awaiting this week’s scheduled launch of Space Shuttle...
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Fermi’s bubble find baffles astronomers
This week NASA’s Fermi space telescope made a discovery that is perplexing scientists around the world. Fermi is a space telescope which detects gamma ray radiation - the most energetic form of...
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Endings and New Beginnings: Endeavour and the AMS
In April, the Space Shuttle Endeavour and her crew of six will make a final flight to the International Space Station. Fans of NASA’s human spaceflight program have begun to mourn the end of an era in...
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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: Searching the Universe for weird stuff
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (or AMS-02 for short) instrument is a cutting edge particle physics experiment which will make its way to the ISS for installation aboard shuttleflight STS-134,...
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A Blast from the Past
Late last month, space and astronomy blogs and news sources were abuzz over the discovery of what may be the most distant event ever detected in the Universe. The event was something referred to as a...
View ArticleESA’s Mars Express provides video of the week!
On June 1st of this year, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft was able to capture images of an unusual alignment as Mars’ moon Phobos passed in front of Jupiter (seen in...
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