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Troubled asteroid mission stumbles on road home
Spaceflight Now - Mon Nov 9, 6:16 pm ET
Hopes are fading for the return of the Hayabusa space probe after another of its ion thrusters failed last week, leaving just one already-damaged engine to guide the hard-luck spacecraft back to Earth, potentially with the first precious samples of an asteroid.
From the lunar orbit to Plano, moon tree puts down roots
Plano Courier - Tue Nov 10, 1:37 am ET
Plano Senior High School is one of the few high schools in the nation to have a moon tree planted on schoolgrounds. The sycamore seedling was planted in a special ceremony Wednesday morning.
Ceremony Reset For ESA Handover Of Tranquility To NASA
redOrbit - Thu Nov 5, 3:06 pm ET
The transfer of ownership of the Tranquility node from the European Space Agency, or ESA, to NASA has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 20.
PSU professor receives grant for black hole research
The Morning Sun - Sun Nov 8, 1:28 am ET
Dr. Alexander Konopelko’s fascination with outer space may have been influenced by pop culture, but his scientific research in astrophysics these days is without a doubt far beyond the average star gazer – both intellectually and in proximity. “I watched a lot of movies about space research growing up. I loved Star Trek,” said Konopelko, a physics professor at PSU whose area of study focuses on ...
NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts
EurekAlert! - Mon Nov 9, 2:28 pm ET
( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Ida and captured her rainfall when she passed by Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize this weekend. TRMM data revealed that most of the heaviest rainfall totals, as much as 11 inches, were just off the coasts of those countries, even though all of those areas dealt ...
NASA lists advisory council restructuring
UPI - Mon Nov 2, 4:48 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency Administrator Charles Bolden says he has added four new committees to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Advisory Council.
Stargazers
Bureau County Republican - Tue Nov 10, 1:26 am ET
Echo Bluff, located outside of Spring Valley, hosted a Star Party Saturday night. With the weather perfect for stargazing, event participants enjoyed astronomy-related software demonstrations, a slide presentation of “The Universe,” and naked eye and telescope demonstrations. At left, Jaime Avela, 7, of Granville looks through a telescope where he was able to see Saturn and three of its moons ...
Life, liberty, and…..space exploration?
Cordele Dispatch - Sat Nov 7, 6:14 pm ET
Good news! NASA, after playing with the space shuttle for the last thirty years, has come out with a new experimental rocket, the Ares 1-X. My first thought is that it’s about time. They’ve been driving the space shuttle for a long, long time.
Some of the Universe's First Galaxies Discovered
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 1:21 pm ET
A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang.
'Cosmic Web' of Galaxies Holds Universe Together
Discovery Channel - Thu Nov 5, 11:07 am ET
Astronomers have spotted the assembly of galaxies that binds the known universe.