Northwest High students building a rocket under NASA contract

NASA Satellite Supporting Haiti Disaster Recovery

Posted on: Friday, 15 January 2010, 13:40 CST

NASA's considerable Earth-observing and data analysis and distribution capabilities have been mobilized to provide information to support disaster recovery efforts in Haiti after the devastating Jan. 12 e… Read full post »

NASA Titan moon-balloons to run on cloud fuel

Hot-"air" droid gasbag probes for patio-gas iceworld

By Lewis Page • Get more from this author

Posted in Space, 15th January 2010 15:24 GMT

Boffins are working on a cunning new plan to power future hot-air-balloon probe craft sent to survey Tita… Read full post »

NASA Listens for Phoenix; More Extra-Solar Planet Observations

Urine Causes Problems For NASA

 Updated: Friday, 15 Jan 2010, 11:27 AM EST

Published : Friday, 15 Jan 2010, 11:25 AM EST

Poll: 50% of Americans say cut space spending
posted by robert block on January, 15 2010 12:54 PM

A new poll released on Friday indicated that half of Americans want the United States to cut back on space spending given the state of the U.S. economy.

According to a new Rasmussen Repor… Read full post »

NASA moves forward with Mars exploration plan

NASA reviewing 'trees' growing on Mars photos

January 14, 2010

What seem to be pockets of spruce-like trees emerging from the dunes of Mars have had people abuzz.

On Wednesday, a NASA probe returned unbelievable photographs of the Red Plant’s surface with tr… Read full post »

Nasa launches investigation after cocaine is found in space shuttle hanger 

Nasa has launched an investigation to find out which of its employees breached a zero-tolerance policy on drugs after cocaine was found in a space shuttle hangar.

A bag containing residue from the drug was discovered out… Read full post »

Mystery space 'asteroid' set to pass close by earth, Nasa says

A mystery space object, believed to be an asteroid, is set to pass close by the earth, Nasa has said, as astronomers attempt determine its origins.

The object, called 2010 AL30, is set to pass within 76,000 miles (122,000km)… Read full post »

Nasa check for 'unlikely' survival of Mars lander

Nasa's Mars Odyssey orbiter is set to listen for possible radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars lander, to check if it has survived the Martian winter.

The agency said that communication from the lander was "extremely unlikely".

Phoenix's last… Read full post »

Turbulent Lava Flow in Mars' Athabasca Valles

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This combination of images helped researchers analyze the youngest flood lava on Mars, which is in Athabasca Valles, in the Elysium Planitia region of equatorial Mars.

On the left, color… Read full post »

Five New Planets Discovered by NASA's Kepler Spacecraft

A year on these hot, giant planets is just days long

Scientists on Monday reported the first new worlds discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, which was launched in March last year specifically to find planets orbiting distant stars.

Kepler… Read full post »

Trio of NASA craft will boost climate data

By Mark K. Matthews

January 9, 2010

Reporting from Washington - NASA heads into 2010 with the bittersweet assignment of retiring the space shuttle after nearly three decades. But the agency also plans to launch three new satellites aimed at better understand… Read full post »

Sun glints can help detect oceans and lakes on habitable exoplanets

Washington DC: With the help of two new videos from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, it has been revealed that bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signaling large… Read full post »

NASA set to cryogenically freeze test critical satellite mirrors

NASA’s James Webb satellite will shoot the stars in 2014

By Layer 8 on Fri, 01/08/10 - 2:19pm.

NASA said it will this week move some of the larger - 46 lb -- mirror segments of its future James Webb Space Teles… Read full post »

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  Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.

A top Nasa astronomer and other leading scientists say that within four or… Read full post »

Black Holes' 'Diets' Exposed

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor

6th of January 2010, 23:00 GMT

In certain massive galaxies, including our own Milky Ways, the large black holes at their cores appear to be starving. That is to say, they no longer accumulate… Read full post »

NASA discovers evidence of ancient lakes on Mars

Vast lakes of melted ice may have existed during a warm, wet spell on the red planet.

New images taken from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that huge lakes of melted ice may have once existed on ancient Mars. The lakes sugg/… Read full post »

NASA: Hubble peers 13 billion years back in cosmic history

Mystery Solved: How The Orbits Of Extrasolar Planets Became So Eccentric 

ScienceDaily (May 11, 2005) — EVANSTON, Ill. --- Except for the fact that we call it home, for centuries astronomers didn't have any particular reason to believe that our solar system was anything special in th/… Read full post »

NASA: Kepler telescope spots five planets outside solar system