- Toymaker Models NASA's Commercial Spaceships in Miniature Robert Z. Pearlman - SPACE.com - 2 hrs 44 mins ago
A small toy company with a penchant for design has reinterpreted the new commercial resupply spacecraft flying for NASA as desktop ornaments. More »Toymaker Models NASA's Commercial Spaceships in Miniature
- Space Exploration Ignored in Obama's State of the Union: No Surprise Mike Wall - SPACE.com - 5 hrs ago
The lack of attention given to space exploration in President Barack Obama's annual State of the Union address Tuesday night (Feb. 12) shouldn't make NASA and the space … More »Space Exploration Ignored in Obama's State of the Union: No Surprise
- Violent Asteroid Crashes Shaped Protoplanet Vesta's Odd Interior Nola Taylor Redd - SPACE.com - 8 hrs ago
Astronomers have recreated two cataclysmic collisions that sculpted the interior of the giant asteroid Vesta, revealing that the so-called protoplanet may actually have … More »Violent Asteroid Crashes Shaped Protoplanet Vesta's Odd Interior
- Space Rock! What You Need to Know About Friday's Asteroid Flyby Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - 8 hrs ago
This Friday (Feb. 15), the asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly by Earth in an unprecedented close approach. More »Space Rock! What You Need to Know About Friday's Asteroid Flyby
- NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Hood Ornament' on Mars Mike Wall - SPACE.com - 11 hrs ago
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has photographed a shiny, metallic-looking object that bears a passing resemblance to a door handle or a hood ornament. More »NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Weird 'Hood Ornament' on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has photographed a shiny, metallic-looking object that bears a passing resemblance to a door handle or a hood ornament.
- Asteroid 2012 DA14's Friday Flyby: A Stargazer's Guide Joe Rao - SPACE.com - 12 hrs ago
Scientists and amateur observers alike are eagerly awaiting Friday's historic flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14, which will zoom inside Earth's ring of geosynchronous sate … More »Asteroid 2012 DA14's Friday Flyby: A Stargazer's Guide
- NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East Michael Casey, AP Environmental Writer - AP - 13 hrs ago
An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effects … More »NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East
An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effects of a 2007 drought, according ...
- Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Worth $195 Billion, Space Miners Say Mike Wall - SPACE.com - 13 hrs ago
This story was updated at 12:44 p.m. EST on Feb. 13. More »Earth-Buzzing Asteroid Worth $195 Billion, Space Miners Say
- 'Earth from Space' Documentary Reveals Cosmic View of Our Planet Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - 13 hrs ago
A new documentary premiering tonight (Feb. 13) on PBS promises to show the Earth as you've never seen it before ... from space. More »'Earth from Space' Documentary Reveals Cosmic View of Our Planet
- 'Gecko' Space Cloud Floats Among Millions of Stars (Video) Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - 13 hrs ago
A dark gecko-shaped nebula nests among millions of stars about 6,000 light-years from the sun in an incredible new image from a telescope in Chile. More »'Gecko' Space Cloud Floats Among Millions of Stars (Video)
- Monster Black Holes Grow Surprisingly Fast Mike Wall - SPACE.com - 13 hrs ago
Giant black holes are famous for their appetites, but these matter-munching monsters are even greedier than scientists once thought, a new study suggests. More »Monster Black Holes Grow Surprisingly Fast
- Seeing Earth From Space: 6 Questions for Former Astronaut Piers Sellers Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
Seeing the Earth from outer space gives people flying above the planet a new perspective, and no one knows that better than Piers Sellers, a former NASA astronaut who … More »Seeing Earth From Space: 6 Questions for Former Astronaut Piers Sellers
- Space Exploration Still US Priority, NASA Says Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Though NASA's share of the federal budget has dropped dramatically since the space-race heyday of the 1960s, the United States still regards space … More »Space Exploration Still US Priority, NASA Says
- NASA's "Mohawk Guy" has prime seat at State of the Union address Reuters - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
(Reuters) - Spike-haired Bobak Ferdowsi, the NASA flight engineer popularly known as the "Mohawk Guy," is boldly going where few space geeks have gone before. Veronica … More »NASA's "Mohawk Guy" has prime seat at State of the Union address
(Reuters) - Spike-haired Bobak Ferdowsi, the NASA flight engineer popularly known as the "Mohawk Guy," is boldly going where few space geeks have gone before. Veronica McGregor, a spokeswoman for the U.S. space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, confirmed on Tuesday that Ferdowsi had been invited …
- What Would Happen if Asteroid 2012 DA14 Hit Earth? Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
There is absolutely no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth when it makes its closest approach on Friday (Feb. 15), but many other asteroids like it have made … More »What Would Happen if Asteroid 2012 DA14 Hit Earth?
- NASA Asteroid-Sampling Mission to Help Gauge Impact Threat Megan Gannon - SPACE.com - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
The extremely close flyby of Earth of a 150-foot asteroid on Friday (Feb. 15) has cast a spotlight on the danger of asteroid impacts to our planet, a threat that an upcoming … More »NASA Asteroid-Sampling Mission to Help Gauge Impact Threat
- See Elusive Mercury as 'Pink' Planet in Sunset Sky SPACE.com Staff - SPACE.com - Tue, Feb 12, 2013
Mercury, the speedy little planet closest to the sun, is making a special twilight appearance this month as a bright pink dot low in the sky. More »See Elusive Mercury as 'Pink' Planet in Sunset Sky
- NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' to Sit with First Lady at State of the Union Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Mon, Feb 11, 2013
Life is good for NASA's "Mohawk Guy." He became world famous after helping NASA's huge Curiosity rover make a dramatic landing on Mars, and now he'll sit with first lady … More »NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' to Sit with First Lady at State of the Union
- NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Will Sit with First Lady at State of the Union Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Mon, Feb 11, 2013
Life is good for NASA's "Mohawk Guy." He became world famous after helping NASA's huge Curiosity rover make a dramatic landing on Mars, and now he'll sit with first lady … More »NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Will Sit with First Lady at State of the Union
- Supernova Alert! Astronomers Spot Warning Outburst Charles Q. Choi - SPACE.com - Mon, Feb 11, 2013
Forecasting when stars will die in giant explosions may one day be possible by looking for the warning outbursts they release beforehand, researchers say. More »Supernova Alert! Astronomers Spot Warning Outburst
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