Camelopardalids shower

Camelopardalids Meteor shower could produce 1000 per hour! TODAY

(NASA) Step outside and take a look at the skies on the evening of May 23 into the early morning of May 24. Scientists are anticipating a new meteor shower,…

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Planet Hunter Kepler new mission APPROVED!

The Kepler Spacecraft has found more planets than any other mission in history. After completing it’s primary mission it experienced reaction wheel failures during an extended life mission and could…

Jupiter red spit shrinking

Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot Shrinking, Could Disappear

(NASA) If you have not taken the time to look through a telescope at the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter you should do it, if you wait to long it…

Glaciers in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea Embayment have “passed the point of no return” according to new research based on three different lines of evidence. Image Credit: NASA/Eric Rignot

More rapid, four foot sea level rise could be unstoppable due to Antarctica Glacier Melt

In some rather disturbing news a new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears…

Unusual Square Coronal hole on the Sun – Video

An unusual coronal hole, almost square in its shape, was spotted on the sun (May 5-7, 2014). A coronal hole is an area where high-speed solar wind streams into space. It…

VIIRS Blue Marble Image January 2 2012

New – See Live Streaming Video of Earth from HD IIS Cameras

The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and uses them to stream live video of Earth for…

Sample-Collection Drill Hole on Martian

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Drills Sandstone Slab on Mars

Rover team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., received confirmation early Tuesday of Curiosity’s third successful acquisition of a drilled rock sample, following the drilling Monday evening (PDT)….

VIIRS Blue Marble Image January 2 2012

Report confirms that climate change is affecting every region of the United States

The National Climate Assessment provides information about climate change impacts on all major regions of the United States and critical sectors of society. (Source NOAA) – The Obama Administration unveiled the Third U.S….