| Hubble's image offers clear view of barred spiral galaxy Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre.
Now, new image taken by Hubble Space Telescope has offered a particularly clear view of one of these.
The telescope has... | |
| New images reveal lava flows on Mars Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter show lava flows on the Syrtis Major region of the planet, which was nce thought to be a sea of water.
The lava flooded the older highland... |
| Community Corner: Lunar New Year, summer-camp fair Community events for the weekend of Saturday, Feb. 4, and Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, include a Lunar New Year Celebration at Seattle Central Library and the Seattle/Eastside CampFair for summer-camp... |
| Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun... |
| Russia's Mars probe crashes into Pacific /enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's failed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt has fallen into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported on Sunday. The crash site of the spacecraft debris was 1,250... |
| Google Earth Ocean Terrain Receives Major Update Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA... |
| Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Planet A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system. ... |
| NASA video shows dark side of the moon NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting the moon to map its gravitational field. The US space agency... |
| China market: Sales of household appliances lower than expected during Lunar New Year holidays Sales of large-size electrical household appliances including LCD TVs in the China market were lower than expected during the Lunar New Year holidays, according to data compiled by retail channels in... |
| Rare video of hidden side of the Moon released reported on Thursday. One whole face of the Moon can never be seen from Earth because it constantly faces away from our planet. But now one of the twin GRAIL spacecraft launched... |
| NASA workers in Ohio win $250,000 lottery A group of 16 NASA employees in Ohio are the winners of a quarter-million dollars in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. The Ohio Lottery said Friday the group from the NASA Glenn Research Center... |
| Scientists get first up-close images of Saturn storm NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.The images were... |
| China's Lunar Exploration Program China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1... |
| NASA IBEX Finds Mismatch Between Solar System, Galactic Space The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories - the Chandra X-ray Observatory [blue], the Hubble Space... |
| Aspiring astronauts double: NASA Final decisions for NASA's astronaut program are expected by the spring of 2013. NASA has received 6372 applications for its 2013 class of astronauts, double the usual number, the US space... |
| Small moves add up in commercial space additional breathing space , thanks to legislation that was approved by the House on Friday and seems certain to become law.The provision takes up just a few words in... |
| Check out the Red Planet's craziest colors This false-color view of Toro Crater on Mars was captured on Dec. 1, 2011, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and released on Wednesday. The... |
| Asteroid Eros draws skywatchers in Earth flyby This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in 2000 on Valentine's Day, immediately... |
| ‘The Great Dying’ Occurred in Phases, Killed 90 Percent of Earth's Species The biggest mass extinction that killed 90 percent of the Earth's marine life occurred in phases and took hundreds of thousands of years to complete, experts have said. According to a study... |
| Super Earth That Could Support Life Found Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth along with three other planets orbiting a nearby star and it is just 22 light years away from Earth. Super-Earth takes about 28 days to... |
| Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom Lose Google Support: Doomsday for Verizon CDMA Phones? Android developer Web site as the company has removed nearly all reference to CDMA phones and tablets from its official documents and Google's developer site,... |
| Drought-Hit Mars May be Dead [PHOTOS] Previous researches have indicated that, Mars might have experienced warmer as well as wetter periods more than three billion years ago. The scientists also believe that Mars was exposed to liquid... |
| Texas governor, senator greet Chinese lunar new year Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senator Rodney Ellis on Friday sent congratulatory letters to the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, greeting the Chinese lunar new year and expressing hopes for good... |
| Premier: no discriminatory rare earth supply policies in place China's premier said Friday that the country does not discriminate against foreign companies in terms of rare earth supplies, stating that policies and quotas for both domestic and foreign... |
| NASA releases first video of moon's 'dark side' NASA has sent back its first footage of the 'dark' side of the moon, the one that is not visible from the Earth. The footage shows a journey from the north to... |
| Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth Flyby In 1931, the close approach of the asteroid Eros allowed professional astronomers to calculate its distance and make that era's most accurate measurement of the solar system. As the asteroid... |
| Radiation blamed for Mars probe failure Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission failed because space radiation disrupted its computer system, an official investigating commission says. The commission's investigation found no faults... |
| Where Is The Universe? Have you ever asked yourself ';Where am I?'; ';What am I?'; ';Who am I?';; Have you ever just stopped to ask ';where is the universe?'; Let us deviate from... |
| Cities at Night Panorama of Millions of US East Coast Earthlings Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this stunning nighttime panorama of the major cities along the East Coast of the United States on Jan. 29, 2012. Credit: NASA Do you... |
| Incredible 3-D View Inside a Martian Crater A 3-d view of a well-preserved and unnamed impact crater on Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Click for high-resolution... |
| Can We Land On a Comet? The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way to intercept comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January 2014 and land a probe on it for... |
| "Blue Marble' view of Earth's other side Blue Marble " views, come from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The minivan-size spacecraft is the first of its kind: an Earth-observing satellite built to collect... |
| Christina McHale Replaces Venus Williams in Fed Cup Singles WORCESTER, Mass. - Venus Williams's comeback to competitive tennis will have to wait at least one more day.
The United States Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez did not name the 31-year-old... |
| NASA Awards San Jose State $73 Million For Air Traffic Control Research SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — NASA has awarded $73 million to San Jose State University to participate in research on how people interact with new technology that will be introduced during an overhaul of... |
| Wanted: Mock Astronauts for Mission to Mars ... in Hawaii If you've ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut and have four months to spare, you might have the "right stuff" to fly to Mars … well, sort of. Scientists at Cornell... |
| NASA Awash In Astronaut Applications, But Still Lacks Spaceships NASA may not have space shuttles to launch people into the final frontier anymore, but that hasn't stopped Americans from lining up in droves for the chance to join the agency's iconic... |
| Oh Eros: Valentine's Day Asteroid Makes NEAR Fly-by The 21-mile long 'God of Love' space rock made its closest approach to Earth (15 million miles away) since 1975 on January 31st, 2012. NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker... |
| Earth From Space: The Secret of NASA's Amazing 'Blue Marble' Photos This photo from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite shows the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth in "Blue Marble" view. The photo, released Feb. 2, 2012, is a companion to a NASA image showing the... |
| Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights The first WhiteKnightTwo/SpaceShipTwo launch system has undergone extensive tests. Next to come are critical rocket-powered flights of the two-pilot, six-passenger... |
| Week in Review: The Stars of 'The Voice' Return to TV , NBC's white-hot singing competition featuring Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton. We posted an excerpt of Brian Hiatt's cover story, in which the four stars... |
| IBEX Spacecraft Intercepts 'Alien' Particles February 3, 2012 As it circles Earth, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer hunts for particles streaming in from beyond the solar system. It has intercepted hydrogen, helium, neon and oxygen... |
| Blue Marble: The Making Of February 3, 2012 NASA's iconic images of Earth from space date back to the late 1960s-with snapshots taken by Apollo astronauts. The modern "blue marble" images are captured by... |
| Space voyages shouldn't be politically incorrect CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It's the kind of question a presidential candidate might ask: "Why should we spend money on space programs and going to Mars, when we need dollars so... |
| NASA flooded with astronaut applications NASA may not have space shuttles to launch people into the final frontier anymore, but that hasn't stopped Americans from lining up in droves for the chance to join the agency's iconic... |
| Iran reports launch of small satellite into orbit A still from a broadcast report on the English-language Iranian Press TV is said to show the launch of the Navid observation satellite into orbit early... |
| Experiments look at how to fight fire in space New experiments on the International Space Station may reveal tips on fighting fires in space, and back here on Earth, too. In space, where there is no up or down, and the atmosphere and pressure... |
