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Apollo Heat Shield Uncrated After 35 Years, Helps New Crew Vehicle Design
NASA scientists developing
the next generation of
exploration vehicles and
heat shields for NASA's
Orion Crew Exploration
... > full story
NASA's MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals Mercury As Never Seen Before
NASA's MESSENGER space probe
has made its second swing
past Mercury, just 125 miles
(200 kilometers) above the
cratered surface of our
... > full story
Small Asteroid To Light Up Sky Over Africa
An asteroid measuring
several feet in diameter is
expected to enter the
atmosphere over northern
Sudan before dawn Tuesday
(Oct. 7), setting off a
... > full story
Meteorites From Inner Solar System Match Up To Earth's Platinum Standard
Some of the world's rarest
and most precious metals,
including platinum and
iridium, could owe their
presence in the Earth's
... > full story
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'Little Bang' Triggered Solar System Formation
October 3, 2008 — For several decades, scientists have debated whether the Solar System formed as a result of a shock wave from an exploding star -- a supernova -- that triggered the collapse of a dense, dusty gas ... > full story -
New Robotic Repair System Will Fix Ailing Satellites
October 2, 2008 — Researchers are developing a new robotic system to service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations. Currently, when the ... > full story -
Mars: Ancient And Ongoing Processes That Shape Planet Surface
October 1, 2008 — Scientists are making leaps forward in understanding both the ongoing and ancient processes that shaped the surface of ... > full story -
Researchers And Students To Develop Small CubeSat Satellites
October 1, 2008 — A satellite about the size of a loaf of bread will be designed and built at the University of Michigan and deployed to study space ... > full story -
Evidence For Rain On Mars?
September 30, 2008 — There is evidence that lake deposits once formed inside impact craters on Mars. About four billion years ago, there were lakes on Mars which may have been fed by short-lived rivers that were, in ... > full story -
Mercury's 'Spider' Pantheon Fossae Formation Linked To Asteroid Impact
September 29, 2008 — A new model suggests that the origin of the Pantheon Fossae on the planet Mercury, a radiating web of troughs located in the giant Caloris Basin, is directly linked to an impact crater at the centre ... > full story -
NASA Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing On Mars
September 28, 2008 — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian ... > full story -
NASA Identifies Carbon-rich Molecules In Meteors As The ‘Origin Of Life’
September 25, 2008 — Tons, perhaps tens of tons, of carbon molecules in dust particles and meteorites fall on Earth daily. Meteorites are especially valuable to astronomers because they provide relatively big chunks of ... > full story -
Artificial Meteorite Shows Martian Impactors Could Carry Traces Of Life
September 25, 2008 — An artificial meteorite designed by the European Space Agency has shown that traces of life in a martian meteorite could survive the violent heat and shock of entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The ... > full story -
Missing Link Of Neutron Stars? Bizarre Hibernating Stellar Magnet Discovered
September 25, 2008 — Astronomers have discovered a most bizarre celestial object that emitted 40 visible-light flashes before disappearing again. It is most likely to be a missing link in the family of neutron stars, the ... > full story
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