Final Hubble Servicing Mission Launches
This week in 2009, the fifth and final space shuttle mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched. Space shuttle Atlantis and the crew of STS-125 delivered the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and...
Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered
NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. “This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said...
Dragon Finalizing Departure Preps
The SpaceX Dragon is being packed with critical science today and tomorrow before its release and splashdown on Wednesday. The crew is also reviewing Dragon departure procedures and training for its...
Enceladus Jets: Surprises in Starlight
During a recent stargazing session, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft watched a bright star pass behind the plume of gas and dust that spews from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. At first, the data...
First Global Topographic Model of Mercury
NASA’s MESSENGER mission has unveiled the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for...
Two NASA Sounding-Rocket Missions to Explore Coronal Nanoflares and Escaping Atoms
With two new sounding-rocket missions funded by NASA’s Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science, or H-TIDeS, program, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...
Expanding Tropics Pushing High Altitude Clouds Towards Poles
George Tselioudis, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University in New York City, was interested in which air currents were shifting clouds at high...
A Rare Celestial Crossing on May 9
Next week, on Monday, May 9, skywatchers on Earth will be able to see Mercury make its way across the surface of the sun. The so-called transit of Mercury occurs only about 13 times every century,...
