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Preparing to say goodbye to the Shuttle
The Space Shuttle program is mandated to end on September 30, 2010, less than a year and a half from now. I am preparing to say goodbye.
April 7, 2009
Chemicals on Mars: Possible evidence of life?
Peter Smith, Principal Investigator of NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission talks about some possible evidence of signs of life in Martian soil by studying chemicals on Mars.
March 9, 2009
Black holes in galaxy cores related to spiral arms
The distribution of mass in galaxy halos might affect how big central supermassive black holes are, and how tightly wound the spiral arms are.
February 27, 2009
Satellite down: The night a satellite crashed
The OCO satellite splashed into the sea near Antarctica Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, leaving eight years of preparation to study Earth's carbon cycle from space unrealized.
February 24, 2009
Mars mineral may mean life-friendly past
A study that's opened up the possibility that life existed on the planet Mars deep in its past. The science team of a NASA mission looks at a Mars mineral on its surface.
February 17, 2009
George Doschek studies sun’s surface, corona
Solar physicist George Doschek of the Naval Research Laboratory spoke to EarthSky on what scientists are learning about the sun's atmosphere.
February 11, 2009
Tectonics happening on Enceladus!
Astronomer Paul Helfenstein talks about some exciting tectonics - geological movements - on the planet Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
January 29, 2009
Space moth: New solar system interacts with interstellar gases
Astronomer Dean Hines talk about an enormous, moth-shaped bunch of interstellar gas and dust showing signs of planet formation, it's dubbed "Space moth".
January 28, 2009
Saturn’s moon may have ice volcanoes
Hear astronomer Jonathan Lunine talk about possible ice volcanoes on Titan - Saturn's moon - the largest and very mysterious moon.
January 27, 2009
Orsola de Marco studies the rainbow spectra of stars
Orsola De Marco, an astrophysicist, studies the light of stars split into a rainbow of colors - what astronomers commonly refer to as a 'spectrum.'
January 11, 2009
