Space News: Page 25

Mars Express Orbiter Finds Possible Sediments of Ancient Martian Ocean Floor (February 9, 2012): The MARSIS radar instrument on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter has discovered a subsurface blanket of low density material around the north polar cap.

Vast Clouds of Hot Gas are Sloshing in Galaxy Cluster Abell 2052 (January 30, 2012): Scientists recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located in the constellation Serpens, about 480 million light years from Earth.

Teenagers Send Lego Minifigure Into Space (January 27, 2012): Two Toronto teenagers, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad.

Newt Gingrich Promises to Build a Permanent Moonbase if Elected President (January 26, 2012): Someday there will be humans living permanently on the moon.

NASA Releases Stunning High Resolution Blue Marble Image of Earth (January 25, 2012): NASA has shared a stunning new high resolution Blue Marble image of the Earth.

Comet Burns Up as it Flies Too Close to the Sun (January 20, 2012): An icy comet was captured by SOHO's LASCO C2 camera as it flew too close to the sun and evaporated.

Astronomers Say There Are At Least 100 Billion Planets in the Milky Way (January 11, 2012): Astronomers have shared findings from new analysis - using data based on gravitational microlensing observations - that indicates nearly every star in the sky has at least one planet.

Mission Trailer for The James Webb Space Telescope (January 9, 2012): The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the Hubble Telescope's successor.

NASA: Re-thinking Alien World 55 Cancri-e (January 7, 2012): NASA created this video to show how the discovery that a super-Earth named "55 Cancri e" is wetter and weirder than astronomers thought has researchers re-thinking the nature of alien worlds.

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Presents Cosmic Wreath Nebula (December 23, 2011): NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey captured this image of a nebula nicknamed the "Wreath Nebula.

Russian Space Probe Likely to Plummet to Earth in January, 2012 (December 23, 2011): Satellites crashing back to Earth is starting to be a monthly ordeal.

NASA Launches Atlas V Rocket to Mars Today (November 26, 2011): Today NASA launched the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Animation: Russian Phobos-Grunt Mission to Grab Soil From Mars Moon (November 8, 2011): The Phobos-Grunt mission has blasted off on an ambitious mission to grab soil from the surface of Mars' tiny moon Phobos and return the samples to Earth in 2014.

Passenger Planes in 2075 May Fly in Formation and Travel at 5x Speed of Sound (October 25, 2011): The British Institution of Merchanical Engineers (IMechE) has released a report about the future of flight.

Richard Branson Christens World's First Commercial Spaceport (October 18, 2011): British billionaire Richard Branson christened the world's first built from the ground up commercial spaceport in New Mexico yesterday.

Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Closed, Protesters Pepper Sprayed (October 8, 2011): The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has been shut down after hundreds of protesters tried to enter the building carrying signs.

NASA WISE Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth (October 1, 2011): New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) indicate there are much fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought.

Video: Voyager: Beyond the Edge of the Solar System (September 24, 2011): NASA's Voyager spacecrafts are nearing the edge of the solar system after 34 years of traveling in space.

Crashing UARS Satellite Possibly Headed for the United States (September 23, 2011): Update 9-24-11: NASA says its satellite "penetrated the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

Timelapse Videos of Aurora Australis From the International Space Station (September 22, 2011): These amazing videos of the Aurora Australis was created from sequences of still shots taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS).

Scientists Discover Planet Orbiting Two Stars, Named Kepler-16b (September 15, 2011): Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a giant planet, Kepler-16b, that orbits two stars.

NASA Unveils Space Launch System (September 14, 2011): NASA today announced development of the Space Launch System (SLS) -- an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle that will help take human exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

Over 50 New Exoplanets Discovered, Including 16 Super-Earths (September 12, 2011): Astronomers using ESO's exoplanet hunter HARPS have announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars.

Astronomers Find Evidence of Extreme Weather on Brown Dwarf (September 12, 2011): A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf.

NASA Launches Twin Spacecraft to Moon for GRAIL Mission (September 10, 2011): NASA launched a pair of spacecraft to the moon today on a mission to study lunar gravity.