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Meteorite Discovery
05.10.12 - Meteorite fragments recently were scattered around Sutter’s Mill, the same region where the first nugget of gold was found that sparked the 1848 Gold Rush.
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Medical Needs for Dehydration in Space
05.10.12 - Astronauts create a saline solution that they can inject directly into the blood stream for quick and safe rehydration.
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Mars' Changing Dunes
05.09.12 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale.
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Forecast Calls for Amazon Fire Season
05.10.12 - Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year.
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Black Holes Shut Down Star-Making
05.09.12 - The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes.
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May 9 Solar Flares
05.09.12 - These flares were all short-lived and there were no associated coronal mass ejections.
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Students Use EarthKam
05.09.12 - Using the Internet, students control a special digital camera mounted aboard the space station to photograph geographic items of interest from the unique vantage point of space.
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Chemistry of Thunderstorms
05.08.12 - NASA researchers are about to fly off on a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.
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Spitzer Sees the Light of Super Earth
05.08.12 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time.
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TDRS-4 Completes Mission
05.08.12 - The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 completed almost 23 years of operations, well beyond its original 10-year design.