NASA : Science World Report

Feb 05, 2013 08:22 PM EST

Mysterious Ribbon Around Our Solar System Explained

A mysterious phenomenon was discovered at the outer most border of our solar system when a special instrument was launched which could observe this region for the first time. This border is defined as the heliosphere, where material streaming out from the sun interacts with the galactic material. It...

Jan 31, 2013 02:24 PM EST

Nasa's New Communications Satellite Launched (Video)

An Atlas V rocket, operated by United Launch Alliance, successfully launched NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-K) payload at 8:48 p.m. EST on January 30 from the Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. It is the first of three new generation communication satellites for the orbital o...

Jan 30, 2013 01:06 PM EST

Pictures From the Red Lithium Skypainting Rocket Launch

Yesterdays NASA experiment to release vaporized lithium in the sky went according to plan, with a small rocket launched from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital rocket took off at 5:50 p.m. EST and produced two lithium vapor trails during the flight, color...

Jan 16, 2013 04:24 PM EST

Orion Spaceship Driving Module 'Made in Germany'

Progress on the path towards advanced manned spaceflight: The US and Europe signed off another step to build and launch the Orion spaceship together, which will be able to carry astronauts to the moon and even to Mars. It is high time too since the schedule is tight, NASA plans to launch the Orion c...

Jan 16, 2013 09:50 AM EST

NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend

NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1988, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record.

Jan 15, 2013 05:31 PM EST

NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Labo...

Jan 11, 2013 10:51 AM EST

Largest spiral galaxy measured and pictured

NGC 6872, the largest spiral galaxy in the known universe, was now measured by astronomers. They employed existing materials from several telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the Two Micron All Sky Survey, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and NAS...

Jan 09, 2013 12:21 PM EST

Rogue orbit of planet Fomalhaut b could lead to crash in 2032

Newly-released Hubble images of the Fomalhaut system, which was called 'Eye of Sauron' by some, shows a vast debris belt which is wider than previously known, and hosts a rogue planet on a potential collision path.

Jan 08, 2013 02:05 PM EST

Mars-brush used by rover Curiosity to sweep Red Dust

Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity used another of its many tools for the first time: the brush! Which is really just doing that, cleaning the floor, in this case select Mars rocks. Its a sophisticated, space-certified, motorized, wire-bristle brush though, attached on the turret at the end of the rov...

Jan 08, 2013 11:20 AM EST

Android in space - Robonaut is working aboard the Space Station

Android in space - now there is a humanoid robot working aboard the International Space Station. Today's picture shows the appropriately named "Robonaut 2" working in the Destiny laboratory module of the ISS, on Jan. 2.

Jan 08, 2013 10:59 AM EST

NuSTAR orbital X-ray telescope caught two mysterious black holes

A special new view of spiral galaxy IC 342 showing two unusually radiant black holes was made possible by NASA's new X-ray telescope NuSTAR, standing for Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. The high-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR have been translated to the color magenta, and superimposed on a vis...

Jan 04, 2013 04:44 PM EST

Plan for dragging asteroid into lunar orbit surfaced

Plans by NASA to utilize a robotic spacecraft to drag a small asteroid to a lunar orbit surfaced today. According to researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California, such a mission would cost about $2.6 billion and could happen by the 2020s