Aug 23
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft.
Aug 23
Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun’s mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? A new study suggests that, for the most part, the answer is no.
Aug 23
A researcher has won an international prize for her plan to wrap a giant asteroid with reflective sheeting to stop it colliding with the earth and destroying all life. Sounds like a baked spud ?
Aug 23
You can use a webcam to sneak peeks at birds’ nests, active volcanoes, watch the Shuttle launch, and even to check traffic. But that’s just local stuff. What if you want more of a far look? Then you need to check out the most distant webcam (so far) in the solar system: the Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera
Aug 23
The planet Venus passed conjunction with the sun on June 9 and is now emerging into view in the western evening sky. But it will be a long and tedious process. Even by the end of September this planet will still very low at dusk.
Aug 23
According to the scientists who attended this year’s Joint Propulsion Conference in Hartford, Connecticut, humans may never be able to achieve interstellar travel. But don’t add “space adventure” to your list of unlikely futures for the human species just yet — here are four reasons why…