September 02 2010 20:59 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Selects Investigations For Solar Probe Plus
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar P...

September 02 2010 20:57 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Unveils New iPad App With Expanded Content
NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the Ap...

September 02 2010 20:54 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA, Partners Announce New Space Station Crew
NASA and its international partners have assigned three new International Space Station crew members. They are targeted to launch to...

September 02 2010 20:54 Portal To the Universe
Solar Probe+ to Plunge Directly … to Sun's Atmosphere
Science@NASA: NASA's daring plan to visit the sun took a giant leap forward today with the selection of five ke...

September 02 2010 19:42 RedOrbit News - Space
Hubble Captures Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave
An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope reports a significant brightening of the emissions from Supern...

September 02 2010 19:20 RedOrbit News - Space
Spitzer Finds \'Flavorful Mix\' Of Near Earth Objects
New research from NASA\'s Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed...

September 02 2010 18:49 Universe Today
Near Earth Asteroids Vary Widely in Composition, Origin
From the Spitzer website: New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed n...

September 02 2010 18:08 Universe Today
Supernova Spews Its Guts Across Space
The newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has taken a new look at Supernova 1987A and its famous "String of Pearls," a ...

September 02 2010 18:00 Portal To the Universe
New Hubble Observations of Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave
HubbleSite NewsCenter -- Latest News Releases: Get larger image formats An international team of astronomers using ...

September 02 2010 17:45 Universe Today
Downloadable Shuttle Tribute Posters
NASA has put out a collection of tribute posters to the Space Shuttle fleet that celebrates the contributions to human space flight ...

September 02 2010 17:09 New Scientist - Space
Space ribbon deployed to surf Earth\'s magnetic field
Future spacecraft could change their orbits simply by unfurling electrically conducting tethers – Japan has now tested one in ...

September 02 2010 17:06 Discovery News - Space
NPR: Keeping Trapped Chilean Miners Sane (Featuring Discovery News)
In response to the article \"Can NASA Help Trapped Chilean Miners?\", Discovery News space producer Ian O\'Neill was asked to appear...

September 02 2010 16:35 Portal To the Universe
Cluster celebrates 10 years
UK Space Agency: Cluster celebrates 10 years

September 02 2010 16:24 Universe Today
Oh Canada! Hadfield Named First Canadian Commander of ISS
Congratulations to one of our favorite astronauts, Chris Hadfield from Canada. Today NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced Ha...

September 02 2010 15:36 New Scientist - Physics & Math
Hawking hasn\'t changed his mind about God
Stephen Hawking\'s new book is the biggest science news story of the day. Has he suddenly given up a religious belief, asks Roger...

September 02 2010 14:40 RedOrbit News - Space
Hawking: God \'Not Necessary\' To Create The Universe
In his latest book, British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking asserts that an omniscient, all-powerful being was...

September 02 2010 14:34 Universe Today
Hawking: God Not Needed for Universe to be Created
Physicist Stephen Hawking has written a new book called "The Grand Design." While the title might seem like Hawking might ...

September 02 2010 14:15 Discovery News - Space
Dissecting Hurricane Earl: Big Pics
Satellites are giving us amazing new looks inside the guts of Hurricane Earl as it bears down on the U.S. coast.

September 02 2010 14:08 Portal To the Universe
Fly your experiment to the edge of space!
UK Space Agency: Fly your experiment to the edge of space!

September 02 2010 13:59 Portal To the Universe
Jupiter rules the night sky in September
Indiana University Astronomy and Astrophysics: Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, will dominate the sk...

September 02 2010 13:51 New Scientist - Space
Weird water lurking inside giant planets
A form of water deep within Uranus and Neptune may behave like a liquid and a solid simultaneously, explaining the planets\' bizarre...

September 02 2010 12:47 RedOrbit News - Space
NASA Sets Media Deadlines For Next Space Shuttle Flight
NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for the November space shuttle flight to the International Space Station. Shuttle Discove...

September 02 2010 12:45 RedOrbit News - Space
Newest GOES Satellite Ready for Action
NASA and NOAA\'s latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orb...

September 02 2010 11:40 RedOrbit News - Space
Herschel Finds Old Star Surrounded By Water
CW Leonis, a star some 500 light-years from Earth, has become a recent hot topic for scientists, who have long known it to be surrou...

September 02 2010 11:35 Universe Today
NASA & ATK Turn Sand to Glass With DM-2 Test
  The deserts of Promontory, Utah came alive with fire as NASA and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) tested the Development Motor-2 (DM-2)....

September 02 2010 09:57 Portal To the Universe
Recipe for water: just add starlight
UK Space Agency: Recipe for water: just add starlight

September 02 2010 08:46 Discovery News - Space
Two Chinese Satellites Have Close Encounter in Orbit
It would appear that China has successfully carried out a satellite rendezvous maneuver in orbit. And on August 19, the two satellit...

September 02 2010 08:00 Portal To the Universe
Recipe for water: just add starlight
ESA Space Science: ESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key...

September 02 2010 08:00 Portal To the Universe
Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan
ESA Top News: Devastating around a third of the country, it is estimated that the floods in Pakistan have affected ...

September 02 2010 04:00 Portal To the Universe
NASA and Its Partners Announce a New Space Station Crew
NASA Breaking News: NASA and its international partners have assigned three new International Space Station crew me...

September 02 2010 04:00 NASA Breaking News
NASA and Its Partners Announce a New Space Station Crew
NASA and its international partners have assigned three new International Space Station crew members.

September 02 2010 04:00 Portal To the Universe
New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free
NASA Breaking News: NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad.

September 02 2010 04:00 NASA Breaking News
New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free
NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad.

September 02 2010 04:00 Portal To the Universe
Taking the 'Search' out of Search and Rescue
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: Technology NASA developed for the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Trackin...

September 02 2010 04:00 Portal To the Universe
NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun
NASA Breaking News: NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before.

September 02 2010 04:00 Portal To the Universe
NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets
NASA Breaking News: NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encount...

September 02 2010 04:00 NASA Breaking News
NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before.

September 02 2010 04:00 NASA Breaking News
NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets
NASA will commemorate a quarter-century of comet discoveries and discuss upcoming comet encounters during a symposium at 9 a.m. EDT ...

September 02 2010 00:00 Portal To the Universe
Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids som...

September 01 2010 21:22 Universe Today
Off to Dragon*Con
I'm just doing some final packing and then the wife and I will be flying out to Atlanta to participate in Dragon*Con 2010. This...

September 01 2010 21:04 Starry Skies Network
For Star-Gazers, September Brings New Night Sky
The month of September marks many changes. For skywatchers it means the passing of the season’s trademark Summer Triangle of s...

September 01 2010 21:03 Starry Skies Network
Starburst Galaxy Unleashes Gassy ‘Superwind’
A striking galaxy buzzing with energetic star formation takes center stage in a new photograph that showcases an unusual “supe...

September 01 2010 20:58 Starry Skies Network
Tube Full of Plasma Creates Solar Eruption in the Lab
Explosive bursts normally seen only on the surface of the sun can now be captured in a 13-foot-long tube using lab-created plasmas a...

September 01 2010 20:57 Starry Skies Network
First humanlike robot headed to space station
Another crew member will join astronauts at the International Space Station in November, but this helper isn’t human.

September 01 2010 20:56 Starry Skies Network
Nasa doctor urges against ‘false hopes’ for Chile miners
A team of Nasa experts have arrived in Chile to aid the rescue of 33 miners and advised officials not to give them “false hope...

September 01 2010 20:54 Starry Skies Network
Colliding clusters turn on radio halos
A study of 32 galaxy clusters using the Chandra Space Observatory and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) shows that collisio...

September 01 2010 20:53 Starry Skies Network
44-207-679-7678 University College London
Today (September 1), space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by ‘Cluster...

September 01 2010 20:52 Starry Skies Network
With new technique, UF astronomers find potassium in giant planet’s atmosphere
Any driver who’s seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the ou...

September 01 2010 20:51 Starry Skies Network
Still no Earths, but getting closer
Only a few years ago, astronomers were thrilled if they found a star beyond the solar system harboring a single planet. Now they’r...

September 01 2010 20:50 Starry Skies Network
NASA funds suborbitial test flights
NASA is getting closer to near-space with a $475,000 award to two companies developing reusable vehicles for suborbital flight.