Browse Archive
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NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet
11.18.08 - NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
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'Russian Dolls' Blow Bubbles in Nearby Galaxy
11.19.08 - Nested bubbles in a massive elliptical galaxy provide clues of black hole activity.
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Hubble Sees Planet Orbiting Another Star
11.13.08 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
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Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work
11.10.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.
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Carbon-Sniffing Satellite Arrives at Launch Site
11.12.08 - NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations.
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NASA Gauges Sea Level, Glacier Changes
11.06.08 - Researchers have used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in Alaskan glaciers.
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JPL Instrument Moon-Bound →
11.05.08 - JPL's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument is aboard India's maiden moon voyage, Chandrayaan-1. A maneuver performed Tuesday, Nov. 4, placed the Indian spacecraft on a path toward the moon.
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Fincke and Chamitoff Vote From Space
11.04.08 - The two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station joined millions of Americans Monday in casting their ballots before Election Day.
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2008 Ozone Hole Maximum Announced
10.31.08 - The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual maximum on Sept. 12, 2008, stretching over 27 million kilometers, or 10.5 square miles.
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'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image
10.31.08 - NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies.
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Astronauts To Vote From Space
10.27.08 - This Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
10.29.08 - NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
10.28.08 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars.
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Dust Storm Predictions Aid Health Community
10.28.08 - NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers.
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Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts
10.27.08 - New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts.
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Climate Change Seeps into the Sea
10.21.08 - Scientists hope a new NASA mission will help them better understand how the Earth's oceans swallow a bitter pill known as carbon dioxide.
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IBEX Launches To Study Solar System's Frontier
A mission to achieve the first global observations of the region beyond the termination shock at the very edge of our solar system.
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Fermi Telescope Discovers Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar
10.16.08 - A 10,000-year-old stellar corpse, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays, as discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
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Two Black Holes Teach Astronomers a Lesson
10.15.08 - Observations of two different systems -- each containing stellar-mass black holes -- are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn.
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Phoenix Weathers Dust Storm
10.14.08 - The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is ack investigating the Red Planet's northern plains.