A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn

Summer is a good time to relax, sleep late, enjoy a break from school or work. Waking before sunrise is just not done. This summer is a little different. To…

Physicists Get Closer Than Ever to finding the Higgs boson

Scientists in America have found strong hints that the rumored Higgs boson particle is real. “This is a very exciting week — it may be the most exciting week in…

NASA Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson Leaves Agency

HOUSTON — NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has left the space agency. Robinson ends his 36-year NASA career as a veteran of three spacewalks with more than 48 days of spaceflight…

Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes In An Exoplanet Atmosphere

WASHINGTON — An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond…

ISS STS 135 Fly Around Image.

Trio From International Space Station Lands Safely in Kazakhstan

HOUSTON — Three members of the Expedition 31 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth Sunday, July 1, wrapping up a mission that lasted six-and-a-half…

NASA’S Orion Arrives At Kennedy, Work Underway For First Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — More than 450 guests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida welcomed the arrival of the agency’s first space-bound Orion spacecraft Monday, marking a major milestone…

M2-class flare causes R1 radio blackouts

Sunspot AR 1513 hit Earth’s atmosphere with a pulse of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation. The flare also has a coronal hole associated with it. This makes for an interesting…

Evidence of oceans on Saturns moon Titan

NASA’S Cassini Finds Probable Subsurface Ocean on Saturn Moon WASHINGTON — Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have revealed Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its…