Posted August 20, 2010 - 03:44 by Emma Woollacott
The moon has grown smaller in the recent past, and may still be shrinking, new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft reveal.
Posted August 19, 2010 - 11:53 by Mark Raby
He doesn't have the same panache as the diaper-wearing crazy astronaut lady Lisa Nowak, but NASA worker Cecil Graham's offense is far worse.
Posted August 16, 2010 - 07:42 by Emma Woollacott
Two space station astronauts are currently conducting their third and possibly final spacewalk to repair the station's faulty cooling system.
Posted July 26, 2010 - 03:05 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered the spherical carbon molecules known as 'buckyballs' in space for the first time.
Posted July 23, 2010 - 13:15 by A STAFF WRITER
NASA has published an amazingly detailed map of Mars which was painstakingly rendered using nearly 21,000 images gathered by Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).
Posted July 19, 2010 - 06:17 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, WISE, completed its first survey of the entire sky over the weekend.
Posted July 16, 2010 - 03:28 by Emma Woollacott
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of what they're calling a 'cometary planet' - one that's so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.
Posted July 15, 2010 - 03:59 by Emma Woollacott
The most powerful X-ray blast ever detected from deep space temporarily blinded NASA's Swift space observatory last month.
Posted July 14, 2010 - 03:20 by Emma Woollacott
Seven square miles of a Greenland glacier broke off in two days last week, leaving the calving edge of the ice sheet a mile further inland.
Posted July 9, 2010 - 03:37 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered a new class of moons in the rings of Saturn that create distinctive propeller-shaped gaps in ring material.
Posted July 8, 2010 - 07:31 by Staff writer
Please don't snigger, but ESO and NASA astronomers have discovered a black hole blowing out an enormous bubble of hot gas.
Posted July 7, 2010 - 00:02 by Aharon Etengoff
NASA has debuted a free online video game that allows players to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3D lunar settlement.
Posted June 16, 2010 - 03:38 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's Kepler Mission has identified more than 750 possible extrasolar planets after monitoring more than 156,000 stars. But it's keeping the best data back.
Posted June 15, 2010 - 10:52 by Emma Woollacott
In the wake of February's earthquake in Chile, a NASA-led team successfully tested elements of a prototype tsunami prediction system.
Posted June 11, 2010 - 13:28 by Aharon Etengoff
NASA's unmanned Global Hawk aircraft has successfully completed four science flights over the Pacific Ocean.
Posted June 8, 2010 - 04:05 by Emma Woollacott
With only two more shuttle missions set to fly, your chances of getting to the International Space Station (ISS) are slim. But as a consolation prize, NASA is promising to send your photo instead.
Posted June 3, 2010 - 04:24 by Emma Woollacott
Mission controllers for the Mars Express have created a video showing the view as the spaceship orbits Mars.
Posted June 2, 2010 - 08:11 by Emma Woollacott
The global temperature over the last 12 months has been the highest on record, according to the latest NASA figures.
Posted May 27, 2010 - 10:14 by Emma Woollacott
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has helped solve two forty-year-old mysteries and delivered new information about climate change on Mars.
Posted May 26, 2010 - 05:12 by Emma Woollacott
NASA is working on new satellite-aided search and rescue technology that will make it quicker to find people in distress.
