Apollo Rocket Engines Recovered from Atlantic Ocean Floor
Last year, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos announced that he had located some of the Apollo F-1 rocket engines and planned…
Keeping up with Comet PANSTARRS through the end of March
Wow - what an image! Michael Jaeger's photo of Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS on March 19 resembles those taken by…
Astrophoto: Stunning Northern Norway Aurora
Photographer Frank Olsen from Norway was feeling left out of the recent auroral activity from the Sun's activity last Friday,…
Scientists Say Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System, But Has It Really?
A new paper out today reports that the Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have traveled beyond the influence of the…
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U.S. To Restart Plutonium Production for Deep Space Exploration
The end of NASA’s plutonium shortage may be in sight. On Monday March 18th, NASA’s planetary science division head Jim…
Grand Spiral Galaxy Graced By Faded Supernova
One of the most lovely deep space objects to observe is the grand-design spiral galaxy and there are few so…
Super-fast Duo: Black Hole and Star Break Speed Records
A group of telescopes and astronomers have worked together to help identify a star and a black hole that orbit…
Closest Exoplanet Deserves a ‘Real’ Name, Says Uwingu
It’s time to “get real” about naming exoplanets, says Uwingu CEO and scientist Dr. Alan Stern. And so the latest…
Import Fraser’s Super Science Circle to Understand Google+
Many people are still having a tough time wrapping their head around Google+. They go there and none of their…
LOFAR Captures Giant Galaxy
Our Universe is full of surprises. Sometimes those surprises come in packages so overwhelmingly huge that it's almost impossible for…