Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering News
Posted on February 08, 2012 at 08:16:47 am
ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified, ancient shorelines on Mars
Posted on February 04, 2012 at 05:13:49 pm
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analysing individual particles of Martian soil
Posted on February 03, 2012 at 07:14:00 am
A team of planet hunters has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone,"
Posted on February 01, 2012 at 06:36:48 pm
A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred on Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 08:47:52 am
A Naval Research Laboratory scientist is part of a team that has recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 11:40:06 am
NASA scientists have found the crash site of a spacecraft set into orbit during the early 60s. They believe it is the missing Lunar Orbiter 2 which disappeared back in 1967 during a passage over the far side of the moon, when the craft went out of telesc
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 04:21:02 pm
NASA announced on Friday that its Kepler telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems that include 26 confirmed alien planets
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 08:41:00 am
Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 02:06:29 pm
A powerful solar eruption, the largest since May 2005 according to NOAA, is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth, which could force planes to be re-routed
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 06:01:42 pm
On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun
