Outer Space Blog

The ubiquitous microwaves of the Global Positioning System can be used to locate water in arid areas – and they are free (full text available to subscribers)


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NASA engineers were trying to identify an object that floated away from Discovery and were analyzing a protrusion found on its rudder Friday, a day before the space shuttle was scheduled to land.

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News of the day. You are an alien.

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Unusual cone-shaped structures that were long ignored next to a road in the US are evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact


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Congress and the White House are squabbling over a bill that essentially revises NASA’s mission statement. The root issues are money and control, but they have a wide potential impact in areas from phasing out space shuttle operations to international…


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The shuttle Discovery landed at its home port on Saturday, wrapping up a mission that gave Japan a permanent toehold in space


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The 51st entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194.

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