- Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Is Peaking Now Tariq Malik - SPACE.com - 18 hrs ago
A meteor shower created by bits of Halley's Comet is at its peak now, and NASA has a few handy tips for stargazers eager to see the display of "shooting stars." More »Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Is Peaking Now
- Stunning Mars Panoramas Capture Curiosity Rover at Work (Photos) Mike Wall - SPACE.com - 20 hrs ago
Three spectacular new panoramas give an eye-popping look at NASA's Mars rover Curiosity hard at work on the Red Planet. More »Stunning Mars Panoramas Capture Curiosity Rover at Work (Photos)
- Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption Unleashes (Photos) Tariq Malik - SPACE.com - 20 hrs ago
An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday (May 3) in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft. More »Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption Unleashes (Photos)
- Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption (Photos) Tariq Malik - SPACE.com - 20 hrs ago
An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday (May 3) in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft. More »Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption (Photos)
- Meteor Shower of Halley's Comet Pieces Peaks Sunday: Watch It Live Tariq Malik - SPACE.com - Sat, May 4, 2013
A meteor shower made from the dusty leftovers of the famed Halley's Comet will be at its best on Sunday (May 5) and NASA doesn't want you to miss it. More »Meteor Shower of Halley's Comet Pieces Peaks Sunday: Watch It Live
- For Skywatchers, Springtime Is 'Big Bear' Season Joe Rao - SPACE.com - Sat, May 4, 2013
Around the area where I live, in a suburb to the north of New York City, we occasionally get reports of bear sightings — either a bear or bear cubs will wander aimlessly … More »For Skywatchers, Springtime Is 'Big Bear' Season
- See a Celestial Circus Below Saturn This Week Geoff Gaherty - SPACE.com - Sat, May 4, 2013
Lately, Saturn has been rising in the east before midnight, putting it in just the position to serve as a guide to the astronomical treasures hidden below it. More »See a Celestial Circus Below Saturn This Week
- Air Force's X-51A Hypersonic Scramjet Makes Record-Breaking Final Flight Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
The U.S. military launched an experimental hypersonic aircraft on its swan song test flight Wednesday (May 1), accelerating the craft to more than five times the speed … More »Air Force's X-51A Hypersonic Scramjet Makes Record-Breaking Final Flight
- Houston Museum to Top Historic NASA Jet with Mock Space Shuttle Robert Z. Pearlman - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
HOUSTON — They say that everything is bigger in Texas and that certainly goes for Space Center Houston's newly-announced space shuttle exhibit. More »Houston Museum to Top Historic NASA Jet with Mock Space Shuttle
- New Experiment Seeks Mysterious Dark Matter Underground Clara Moskowitz - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
A new hunt for dark matter — an invisible but bountiful constituent of the universe — is under way inside an underground laboratory a mile and half below Ontario, Canada, … More »New Experiment Seeks Mysterious Dark Matter Underground
- Meteor Shower from Halley's Comet Peaks This Weekend Joe Rao - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
Early Sunday (May 5), just before dawn, we'll have an opportunity to see some of the remnants of the most famous of comets briefly light up the early morning sky. More »Meteor Shower from Halley's Comet Peaks This Weekend
- IBM Warps Atoms Into Crazy 'Star Trek' Art Miriam Kramer - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
The nanophysicists working at IBM appear to be Trekkies. More »IBM Warps Atoms Into Crazy 'Star Trek' Art
- Paper-Folding Trick May Help Tiny Satellites Use Sails in Space Tia Ghose - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
A simple paper-folding technique could help tiny satellites unfurl big sails in space to detect micrometeoroid impacts, scientists say. More »Paper-Folding Trick May Help Tiny Satellites Use Sails in Space
- Space Shuttle's Robotic Arm Goes on Display at Canadian Museum Elizabeth Howell - SPACE.com - Fri, May 3, 2013
This article was updated on May 3 at 5:03 p.m. ET. More »Space Shuttle's Robotic Arm Goes on Display at Canadian Museum
- On Mars, Curiosity Rover Back at Work After 'Spring Break' Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Thu, May 2, 2013
The Mars rover Curiosity's month of freedom on the Red Planet is over. More »On Mars, Curiosity Rover Back at Work After 'Spring Break'
- Beyond Kepler: New Missions to Search for Alien Planets Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Thu, May 2, 2013
NASA's groundbreaking planet-hunting Kepler observatory may be showing its age, but a handful of other spacecraft are poised to join the search for exoplanets and carry … More »Beyond Kepler: New Missions to Search for Alien Planets
- Why Is Our Solar System Such a Cosmic Weirdo? Charles Q. Choi - SPACE.com - Thu, May 2, 2013
The solar system that humans call home may be a strange oddity when compared with the incredible diversity of planetary systems researchers are discovering in the Milky … More »Why Is Our Solar System Such a Cosmic Weirdo?
- Search for E.T. Should Extend Beyond 'Alien Earths,' Astronomer Says Mike Wall - SPACE.com - Thu, May 2, 2013
Scientists searching for signs of life beyond our solar system should keep an open mind, for planets very different than Earth may well be habitable, a prominent researcher … More »Search for E.T. Should Extend Beyond 'Alien Earths,' Astronomer Says
- The Hunt for Elusive Gravity Waves Heats Up Clara Moskowitz - SPACE.com - Thu, May 2, 2013
In the next five years or so, scientists are poised to discover proof that space and time can wrinkle in the form of gravitational waves. These waves were predicted almost … More »The Hunt for Elusive Gravity Waves Heats Up
- NASA Rover to Explore… Greenland Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer - LiveScience.com - Thu, May 2, 2013
NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet, but will take a look at part of our own. Named Grover (short for Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration … More »NASA Rover to Explore… Greenland
NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet, but will take a look at part of our own. Named Grover (short for Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research), the rover will explore Greenland's ice sheets to better understand how they form, and how quickly they may be melting.
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