Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering News
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:10:28 pm
NASA's Kepler Mission is giving astronomers such a clear view of changes in star brightness that they can now see clues about what's happening inside red giant stars
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 09:03:51 am
A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered that insects that bore into trees as long ago as 90 million years, or as recently as last summer, leave a calling card that's rich with information
Posted on March 24, 2011 at 09:00:58 am
Like a petulant adolescent, Saturn is sending out mixed signals
Posted on March 21, 2011 at 08:15:23 am
Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space
Posted on March 18, 2011 at 07:46:50 am
As spring continues to unfold at Saturn, April showers on the planet's largest moon, Titan, have brought methane rain to its equatorial deserts, as revealed in images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 08:11:38 am
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of part of the famous Tarantula Nebula, a vast star-forming cloud of gas and dust in our neighboring galaxy
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 09:06:07 pm
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan March 11, 2011 may have slightly shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:20:36 pm
Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the Autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others
Posted on March 09, 2011 at 08:59:43 am
A University of Leicester researcher has led an international team of scientists to announce the discovery of a new cosmic explosion: a gamma-ray burst and its associated supernova
Posted on March 07, 2011 at 08:26:05 am
Lining up along the edges of a cosmic hole are several "elephant trunks" -- or monstrous pillars of dense gas and dust.
