Posted January 21, 2011 - 06:41 by Kate Taylor
NASA is pressing ahead, its fingers crossed, for a third and final shuttle flight this year.
Posted January 20, 2011 - 06:39 by Emma Woollacott
Many types of asteroid could have created the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth to build proteins and regulate chemical reactions, according to new NASA research.
Posted January 17, 2011 - 09:33 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers have measured the most massive known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood, weighing in at the equivalent of 6.6 billion suns.
Posted January 14, 2011 - 05:44 by Emma Woollacott
The Crab Nebula - long thought to be the most stable source of high energy radiation in the sky - has astonished astronomers by showing signs of dimming.
Posted January 13, 2011 - 12:59 by STARR KESHET
A California researcher is urging NASA to (seriously) study the effects of space on human sexual behavior and procreation.
Posted January 13, 2011 - 08:35 by Kate Taylor
Astronomers at NASA are peering ever further away into the universe, and have now discovered their most distant galaxy yet.
Posted January 13, 2011 - 05:38 by Emma Woollacott
Well, that's our vacation sorted: Space Adventures says it has three seats for sale for 2013 flights to the International Space Station.
Posted January 12, 2011 - 13:02 by Kate Taylor
Hubble scientists have released a picture of a strange green blob floating near a neighboring spiral galaxy.
Posted January 12, 2011 - 08:36 by Kate Taylor
The European Space Agency has released the fist results from its Planck mission, focusing on the coldest objects in the universe.
Posted January 12, 2011 - 05:58 by Emma Woollacott
Scientists have for the first time discovered that antimatter is regularly being produced on Earth - by thunderstorms.
Posted January 11, 2011 - 07:43 by Kate Taylor
Astronomers have been astonished to find a supermassive black hole in the center of a tiny low-mass galaxy, suggesting that such black holes can form before their host galaxies.
Posted January 11, 2011 - 05:31 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers have found the smallest planet yet outside our solar system, a rocky planet about one and a half times the size of Earth.
Posted January 6, 2011 - 08:46 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's having another shot at regaining communication with the Mars rover Spirit, bogged down in a Martian crater for the last eighteen months.
Posted January 4, 2011 - 06:46 by Kate Taylor
A ten-year-old Canadian girl has become the youngest-ever person to discover a supernova.
Posted January 3, 2011 - 05:20 by Kate Taylor
A new global project will, for the first time, be able to track astrophysical events across the sky as they happen.
Posted December 31, 2010 - 05:34 by Emma Woollacott
NASA has found four more cracks in the Discovery shuttle's fuel tank, but says it believes it can repair them in time to launch on February 3 as planned.
Posted December 30, 2010 - 08:31 by Kate Taylor
Five hundred 'space artifacts' are set for the auctioneer's block later this month - including a Playboy calendar photo that made it to the moon in 1969.
Posted December 27, 2010 - 07:02 by Emma Woollacott
An Indian rocket was deliberately blown up on Christmas Day less than a minute after launch.
Posted December 25, 2010 - 18:07 by Lydia Leavitt
According to the New Testament, the guiding light that led the failthful to the birth of baby Jesus was the Star of Bethlehem.
Posted December 23, 2010 - 13:59 by Lydia Leavitt
The Apophis asteroid (99942) is expected to pass uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036.
