Solar System
NASA Diagnoses Problem With Voyager 2
[/caption] What could be happening out near the edge of the solar system? The 33-year-old Voyager 2 spacecraft has experienced…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Nice Way To Build A Solar System
When considering how the solar system formed, there are a number of problems with the idea of planets just blobbing…
WORF and Klingons occupy ISS
[/caption] WORF has finally joined the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). That’s great news for NASA as well…
Mother of Pearl Colored Clouds form above Kennedy after Discovery Blast Off
[/caption] (Editor's Note: Ken Kremer is at the Kennedy Space Center for Universe Today covering the flight of Discovery) Beautiful…
Silent Spirit … Long Winter Ahead
[/caption]The Mars rover Spirit has entered her long anticipated low power hibernation mode according to a statement released by NASA’s…
NASA: A possible Reprieve for Phoenix
[/caption] Well my original thought for this piece was, “Last Chance for Phoenix”, since the third and final chance for…
Spirit Hunkered Down for Winter; Stuck Forever ? Maybe Not !
[/caption] The plucky Mars rover ‘Spirit’ may yet rove again ! She’ll just have to outwit and outlast the unavoidably…
Phoenix Still Silent as Martian Ice Recedes
[/caption] As expected, NASA’s February 2010 listening campaign for the Phoenix Mars Lander has failed to detect any signals emanating…
Small Asteroids, Bread Flour, and a Dutch Physicist’s 150-year Old Theory
[/caption] No, it's not the Universe Puzzle No. 3; rather, it's an intriguing result from recent work into the strange…
New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System
[/caption] One of the most surprising results from the Stardust mission – which returned comet dust samples to Earth in…