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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
Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA’s future
"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait, the Bad Astronomy blogger, about the new NASA budget. "I see this as a shake-up ..."
February 8, 2010
Solar Dynamics Observatory studies sun in super HD
The Solar Dynamics Observatory studies the solar storms the drive our space weather here on Earth. It carries instruments to take detailed images of our sun.
February 8, 2010
Destination Moon, a scifi classic
Destination Moon refers to the 1950 scifi classic. Across the board, the media makes inexcusably egregious mistakes, and promotes misconceptions, about our moon.
February 6, 2010
