Tag Archives: NASA

The NASA MESSENGER satellite has established orbit around Mercury and is now transmitting back to Earth the first images ever shot from the planet's orbit.

The Mars 'Spirit' rover, having been silent for over a year, appears to finally be officially dead.

NASA released some time-lapse videos of some of the activity going on with our Sun. It's almost hypnotic.

Scientists have found a brown dwarf star that they believe is only 207 degrees warm. If that's not cool enough, another star they're investigating is believed to be cooler than the human body.

When a satellite that cost $600 million to build and operate goes silent for 144 hours, you're going to get a few peeved astronomers.

Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!

Methane rain storms on Titan? A storm that has encompassed 2/3rds of Saturn's northern hemisphere? It's been an active few months out 740 million miles from Earth.

German skywatcher Jens Hackmann captured some video footage of the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' during its final mission as it dumped some of its more unsavory cargo before reentry.

To help combat the growing concern of space debris in orbit around Earth, NASA is pondering the construction of a giant laser that could help knock potentially harmful chunks of debris from the sky.

With all the hoopla over the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it kind of went unnoticed that in completing their mission, Discovery installed the final section of the International Space Station.