Space News: Page 20

U.S. Army Sends LEMV Airship on First Flight (August 13, 2012): The U.

Curiosity Rover Getting Brain Transplant as Driving Smarts are Installed (August 10, 2012): NASA reports that Curiosity will be getting a "brain transplant" over the weekend.

First Images Taken by Curiosity's Navigation Cameras Revealed (August 8, 2012): NASA has released the first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface taken by the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing (August 6, 2012): NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped an amazing photo of Curiosity during its descent to the Mars surface.

Curiosity Rover Makes Successful Landing on Mars, First Photos Released (August 6, 2012): NASA's Curiosity rover has successfully landed on Mars in the Gale Crater.

NASA's Curiosity Rover to Land on Mars in About 2 Hours (August 5, 2012): NASA's Curiosity rover will land on Mars at 10:31 p.

NASA Names Three Companies to Develop Spacecraft for Manned Spaceflight Missions (August 3, 2012): NASA has announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.

Astronomers Find Exoplanetary System With Configuration Similar to Our Solar System (July 26, 2012): Astronomers at MIT, the University of California at Santa Cruz and other institutions have detected the first exoplanetary system, 10,000 light-years away, with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system.

NASA Successfully Tests Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield Technology (July 25, 2012): NASA successfully tested its Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) on Monday.

NASA Video: Van Gogh Sun (July 21, 2012): Data of the Sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) can resemble impressionist style paintings.

Astronomers Using Hubble Discover Earliest Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen (July 19, 2012): Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have have witnessed the earliest spiral galaxy ever seen.

Gopher Makes Home Under Rocket Launch Pad at Russian Space Facility in Kazakhstan (July 19, 2012): The Atlantic reports that a curious little gopher has made its home under the rocket launch pad at Baikonur, a Russian space facility in Kazakhstan.

Astronomers Observe Distant Quasar With Unprecedented Sharpness (July 19, 2012): An international team of astronomers has observed the heart of a distant quasar with unprecedented sharpness, two million times finer than human vision.

Spitzer Telescope Finds Evidence for an Exoplanet Smaller than Earth, 33 Light-Years Away (July 18, 2012): Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.

NASA Creating Menu for Mars Mission in 2030s (July 18, 2012): NASA scientists are building menus for a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s.

Hazy, Swirling Vortex Spotted Over Saturn's Moon Titan (July 12, 2012): NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of a high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan.

Hubble Discovers Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto (July 11, 2012): Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered another moon orbiting Pluto.

Hubble Sees Red Giant Named Camelopardalis Cough Out Gas Bubble (July 10, 2012): The Hubble Telescope has spotted Camelopardalis (U Cam), a red giant, blowing a large bubble of gas.

Man Plans Record Supersonic Freefall Jump From 23 Miles Above the Earth (July 9, 2012): Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner plans to attempt a record-breaking freefall jump from 120,000 feet (23 miles) sometime this summer.

Astronomers Find Red Dwarfs With Remarkably Close Orbits (July 8, 2012): Astronomers using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii have discovered four pairs of Red Dwarf stars that orbit each other in less than four hours.

Researchers Say Spaceflight May Help Microscopic Worm Live Longer (July 8, 2012): New research has shown that spaceflight may extend the lifespan of a microscopic worm, Caenorhabditis elegans (C.

Hubble Telescope Views Herbig-Haro 110, a Geyser of Hot Gas (July 7, 2012): Herbig-Haro 110 is described by NASA as "a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen.

NASA Releases Mars Panorama (July 6, 2012): NASA has released a Mars Panorama, which it calls the "next best thing to being there.

NASA Observes M6.1 Flare From Sunspot 1515 (July 5, 2012): Early in the morning of July 5, 2012, Sunspot 1515 spit out an M6.

B612 Foundation Plans to Launch Space Telescope to Track Asteroids (July 1, 2012): The B612 Foundation plans to build, launch and operate the first privately funded deep space mission.