NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation's manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va. The mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on March 14.
The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft traveling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the radiation a human astronaut could be exposed to en route to the Red Planet.
The LABOCA camera on the ESO-operated 12-metre Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope reveals distant galaxies undergoing the most intense type of star formation activity known, called a starburst. This image shows these distant galaxies, found in a region of sky known as the Extended Chandra Deep Field South, in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace). The galaxies seen by LABOCA are shown in red, overlaid on an infrared view of the region as seen by the IRAC camera on the Spitzer...
The active region on the Sun that created all the hubbub and aurorae earlier this week put out one last shot before that area of the Sun turns away from Earth’s view, and that shot was a biggie. At 18:37 UT (1:37 pm EST) today (January 27, 2012) sunspot 1402 unleashed an X-class flare, the largest and most powerful category of flares. This flare was measured as an X2, which is at the low end of the highest powered flares, but still, this is the most powerful flare so far this year. It...
Spanair has ceased operations after reportedly running out of financing options.
The Progress 46 cargo ship delivered nearly 3 tons of cargo to the International Space Station.
Mitt Romney arrives in Florida's Space Coast flying high from last night's debateBoston GlobeBlum, a Democrat, said he was not impressed with the “lack of vision” among the candidates when it comes to space flight. “I wish we could get people to agree on a vision for a space program -- how much money we spend, and where we should go.”and more »
Science is king in Chandler schoolsArizona Republicby Kerry Fehr-Snyder - Jan. 27, 2012 02:15 PM Second place was good enough for the two fifth-graders at Knox Elementary School competing in their school science fair in Chandler. Isha Paode, 11, and Kristina Schmidt, 10, will advance to the Hamilton ...
