Jul 27 2011
Monster Waves Behind Sun’s Coronal Heating Mystery?
Powerful Alfvén waves have been detected deep inside the sun's atmosphere, possibly explaining why the solar atmosphere is so hot.
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Jul 26 2011
Remind Me Again, Why Isn’t Pluto a Planet?
In light of the discovery of a fourth moon orbiting Pluto, Mark Thompson ponders what it takes to be called a "planet."
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Jun 20 2011
Hayabusa Asteroid Probe Awarded World Record
A year after the mission came to an end, the Japanese Hayabusa mission is officially certified by Guinness World Records as the first spacecraft to return to Earth carrying material from an asteroid.
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Jun 16 2011
Which Near-Earth Asteroid Should We Visit?
Of the tens of thousands of Near Earth Objects out there, which ones would be best to visit, optimizing fuel and ease of speeding back to Earth should anything go wrong?
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Jun 10 2011
Voyager: Solar System Edge is Bubbly and ‘Frothy’
The twin Voyager probes are entering interstellar space, but they're experiencing some surprises along the way.
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May 11 2011
Blogging From Mars? Log On to the Interplanetary Internet
Speaking at the Interlop 2011 conference on Tuesday, Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist for Google, discussed ongoing plans for a standardized "Interplanetary Internet."
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Apr 20 2011
Pluto’s Atmosphere: Big, Poisonous and Comet-like
The dwarf planet has shocked astronomers with its dynamic atmosphere -- previously undetected carbon monoxide has been discovered and it may even have a comet tail-like shape.
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Mar 22 2011
What’s on Venus?
What would it be like to survey the Venusian surface firsthand -- to set foot on Earth's strange twin?
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Mar 06 2011
Has Evidence for Alien Life Been Found?
Fossilized alien microbes have been discovered in a sample extracted from a meteorite, according to research carried out by a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center astrobiologist.
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Mar 02 2011
Mystery of Missing Sunspots Explained
The coming solar maximum likely won't be very exciting, and now scientists know why.
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