Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering News
Posted on May 16, 2011 at 11:28:50 pm
The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable exoplanet
Posted on May 12, 2011 at 08:47:16 pm
A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft has revealed that beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is an "ocean" of molten or partially molten magma
Posted on May 08, 2011 at 08:25:43 am
NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons; or study in unprecedented detail the surface of a comet
Posted on May 05, 2011 at 11:57:38 pm
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected the crossing of a solid planet in front of a star located at only 42 light-years in the constellation Cancer.
Posted on May 01, 2011 at 11:31:20 am
The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters
Posted on April 30, 2011 at 09:46:15 pm
Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 08:05:47 am
An international team of astronomers have revealed details of a "super-exotic" exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar pale in comparison
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 08:36:11 am
That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 07:57:44 am
A sky with two suns is a favorite image for science fiction films, but how would a binary star system affect life evolving on an orbiting planet?
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 08:26:33 am
A new image of nebula shows giant loops of gas bearing a striking resemblance to solar prominences
