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After overcoming a glitch that had forced science operations to cease, operators wasted no time in using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph another stunning cosmic scene. The new image, released today, shows an odd pair of galaxies called Arp 147.
NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander put itself in “safe mode” after its power reserves dipped too low, NASA announced Wednesday
By starlight this eerie visage shines in the dark, a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression the witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel. Spanning over 50 light-years,
Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147.
"If any life was present on either planet, the massive collision would have wiped out everything in a matter of minutes: the ultimate extinction event," said Gregory Henry of Tennessee State University
NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers
On the eve of one of their biggest busts yet, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage take us behind the scenes to explain how they made their own fake photos, built a moon set in an hour—and even went weightless themselves. No, they didn't build a rocket ship and actually go ... yet
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have recently photographed strange electric-blue clouds hovering at the edge of space
William Pomerantz, Director of Space Projects at the X PRIZE Foundation will be joining us live this Friday, August 29th at 2:00am UTC. For those in the United States that is Thursday, August 28th at 7:00pm Pacific time, 9:00pm Central time or 10:00pm Eastern time.
Remember a few months ago when "space" seemed to be a non-issue for the candidates in this year's US presidential election? But now space seems to be a hot topic. Both McCain and Obama recently updated their positions on their space-related agendas on their websites, with both devoting quite a bit of "space" to space.
NASA comes across yet another delay that may cause the US to not have transport into space for up to four years. And this time, the US space enthusiasts aren’t the only ones who are upset.
The Oort Cloud is a spherical cloud of comets believed to lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sunm which places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The Kuiper belt and scattered disc, the other two known reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects, are less than one thousand
