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Small Moon hidden in Saturn ring Discovered

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 - 10:04:54 - Iddo Genuth

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found within Saturn's G ring an embedded moonlet that appears as a faint, moving pinprick of light. Scientists believe...

Wary NASA Delays Kepler Mission

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 - 20:32:17 - Iddo Genuth

Following a somewhat dour week for the U.S. space program, which resulted in the complete loss of NASA’s climate-monitoring Orbiting Carbon...

Launch Mishap Ends OCO Mission

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 - 12:06:25 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Feb. 24 from California's Vandenberg Air Force...

First Liquid Water on Mars?

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - 16:48:55 - Iddo Genuth

NASA's Phoenix lander may have captured the first images of liquid water on Mars - droplets that apparently splashed onto the spacecraft's leg during...

The Orbital Menace - Space Garbage
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 - Ran Levi
We have all heard about the challenges and dangers involved in space travel. Even though the space shuttle is equipped with...

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NASA Postpones Space Shuttle Launch Again

Saturday, February 21st, 2009 - 14:06:45 - Iddo Genuth

NASA has delayed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery for a fourth time amidst concerns about valves. After meeting all Friday at Kennedy Space...

The End of Hubble?

Thursday, February 19th, 2009 - 18:30:44 - Iddo Genuth

The spectacular collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt...

CECE Engine Passes Third Round of Tests
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, of West Palm Beach, Florida has successfully completed the third round of its Common Extensible...

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Fireworks From a Flaring Gamma-Ray Star

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 16:12:32 - Anuradha Menon

Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years...