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Mars Express spacecraft views of Phobos
Mars' tiny moon Phobos has created a big stir among astronomers with the fly-bys of the Mars Express Spacecraft of the European Space Agency in early 2010.
May 3, 2010
20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope
"The Hubble Space Telescope has literally changed our view of the universe," said NASA astrophysicist Ed Weiler. April 2010 marks its 20th anniversary.
April 19, 2010
Solar ejection glancing blow to Earth
This event on the sun can knock out satellites and interfere with earthly communications. It can result in magnificent auroras - the famous northern or southern lights. Be alert in the coming days ...
April 15, 2010
Venus has active volcanoes? Info from spacecraft data
There's a longstanding mystery about the craters on Venus. There aren't enough of them. Could active volcanoes be wiping them from the planet's surface?
April 8, 2010
Helping astronauts get their balance back
Astronauts returning from the zero gravity of space often have trouble with balance. Jacob Bloomberg wants to speed up their transition to earthly gravity.
March 22, 2010
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot glows in infrared
“This is our first detailed look inside the biggest storm of the solar system,” said Glenn Orton, who led the team that made the study.
March 16, 2010
Fermi Telescope and high-energy astronomy
Looking at the universe with gamma-ray eyes, the Fermi Telescope reveals places in the universe where particles are accelerated to high energies.
March 4, 2010
Alan Stern: ‘A Chihuahua is still a dog, and Pluto is still a planet’
"Our whole view of the solar system turned upside in the 1990s when we discovered other Pluto-like planets. It's Earth that's the misfit," says Alan Stern.
February 18, 2010
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Pluto debate
Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how In the mid-1990s, researchers were discovering objects that were small and icy like Pluto, with elongated orbits like Pluto.
February 15, 2010
Vote on Pluto: Should it be called a planet?
February of 2010 marked the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Astronomer and author Ken Croswell told us how you can vote on Pluto, if it should be a planet.
February 15, 2010
