The Hubble Space Telescope is still blind after its science systems failed to fully restart on Thursday. Last month, a device that prepares data from the telescope’s instruments for transmission to the ground failed. Engineers reconfigured the telescope to use a backup channel, and on Wednesday ...
NASA is once again trying to reboot the Hubble Space Telescope, agency officials said Thursday. The telescope’s instruments have been shut down since the end of September, when a router that formats science data for transmission to the ground suffered ...
For years, scientists have wondered whether there is water ice on the Moon’s surface. The question is of more than academic interest, because ice could be used by a future Moon base to produce oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to fuel spacecraft. ...
Galaxies come in all shapes and sizes, from giant spirals to dwarf irregulars, and this diversity is thought to be a function of how they form. One major theory is that galaxy formation is a hierarchical process involving collisions of chunks of cold dark matter, and ...
Succumbing to a swirling dust storm and the cold of an encroaching Martian winter, the Phoenix Mars lander fell quiet for a day, before coming back to life Thursday evening, albeit weakly. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas ...
NASA/ESA/M. Livio, STScI This image from the Hubble telescope demonstrates that its wide field planetary camera 2 is working properly. After an electrical malfunction caused it to go dormant a month ago, the Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. But ...
NASA/JPL WATER LATER Images from Mars show deposits of minerals like opals in magenta and blue. Still puzzling over how warm and wet Mars may have once been, scientists are now seeing global mineralogical signs that the planet was at least occasionally wet ...
Ahmad Zamroni/AFP/Getty Images Higher temperatures were found to cause water tables in bogs to drop and more peat to decompose. It’s increasingly clear that the effects of climate change will be felt — or are already being felt — in all corners ...
Rick Friedman PATTERNS Studying the loss and change in plant species in Walden Pond. CONCORD, Mass. — Henry David Thoreau endorsed civil disobedience, opposed slavery and lived for two years in a hut in the woods here, an experience he described in ...
Sean Patrick Farrell LIFE IN ECHO BAY Alexandra Morton thinks salmon farms drove away killer whales, in part by infecting the wild salmon the whales eat with sea lice. ECHO BAY, British Columbia — Growing up in Connecticut, Alexandra Hubbard did not want ...
BARCELONA, Spain — European Union legislators voted Tuesday in favor of laws aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but frustrated some environmental advocates by taking steps to ease the burden on industry. The European Union created the world’s largest emissions ...
Jack Dempsey/Associated Press A wind turbine blade at a Vestas factory in Colorado. Two exchange-traded funds specializing in wind power started in recent months and have $83 million in assets between them. EXCHANGE-TRADED funds that focus on alternative energy have proliferated in a ...
Hopes have faded that NASA can greatly narrow a five-year gap between the last space shuttle flight in 2010 and the debut of the next generation of spacecraft, with an agency official saying Monday that budget realities make the most ambitious date unrealistic. ...
Exquisite close-ups of fissures on a tiny frozen moon of Saturn will provide the latest clues in solving the riddle of how a 310-mile-wide ice ball could possibly be shooting geysers of vapor and icy particles. NASA ...
Hoping to understand why the universe seems to be coming apart at its seams, a young astronomer and his colleagues have embarked on one of the oldest quests in cosmology, to measure how fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is. ...
A tangle of spidery filaments stretches outward from the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 as if they were dendrites of an intergalactic nerve cell. FABIAN/NASA NGC 1275, located 235 million light-years from Earth near the center of a ...
Christian K. Monrad/Monrad Engineering A mall parking lot in Tucson, Ariz., with lights focused downward to prevent night glare. More businesses are interested in keeping the night sky dark. TUCSON, Ariz. Christian K. Monrad/Monrad Engineering ...
Christopher Capozziello Dr. Heidi Hammel Listen, much as I love Hubble, it’s time to build new tools to see new things. I’ve been working with a team planning the next great space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, ...
NASA Greg Chamitoff aboard the International Space Station with the chess board and pieces he fitted with Velcro for games in orbit. The crew members aboard the International Space Station are busy, but Greg Chamitoff, the American astronaut currently stationed there, has managed to find time for ...
After a much ballyhooed discovery two months ago of water ice in the northern plains of Mars, scientists are now perplexed by the water that NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander has not found. NASA/JPL-Caltech A ...
For as long as humans have dreamed about spaceflight, they have also had nightmares about the perils of space. There’s the cold vacuum, of course, which can freeze-dry an unprotected astronaut. There are other hazards, too, including the sun’s ultraviolet rays, unfiltered by atmosphere. Being exposed to them is no ...
Gemini Observatory A composite image of 1RSX J160929.1-210524. Astronomers from the University of Toronto have published a picture of what they say might be the first image of a planet orbiting another Sunlike star. The planet, according to their observations, is ...
After two years exploring a half-mile-wide crater, NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity is heading for an even wider destination: a crater 13.7 miles wide. (Manhattan, at 13.4 miles long, would fit inside.) NASA/JPL/ASU Within ...
European Pressphoto Agency The three Chinese astronauts before the launching on Thursday. The Chinese government hopes the space program can help establish a space station and eventually put a person on the moon. SHANGHAI — The Chinese Shenzhou VII spacecraft blasted off at 9:07 p.m. Thursday, carrying ...
A little-noticed provision of a stopgap spending bill passed by the House on Wednesday could resolve one of the most pressing issues for the United States space program. The $630 billion measure, which is known as a continuing resolution, will put off major spending ...
Color China Photo, via Associated Press Chinese astronauts on Sunday, shortly after their landing in northern China. From left, Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and, emerging from the space capsule, Jing Haipeng. SHANGHAI — Three Chinese astronauts returned safely to earth in their space capsule late Sunday afternoon ...
A privately financed company launched a rocket of its own design successfully into orbit on Sunday night, ushering in what the company’s founders hope will be a new era of spaceflight. It was the fourth launching attempt by the company, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, ...
A problem that struck the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday will delay the final space shuttle mission to service it, moving the launching from next month to next year, NASA officials said Monday. A crew of seven astronauts was scheduled to blast off ...
The latest findings from the Martian Arctic offer more hints of a wet past but paint a very arid present, scientists reported Monday. And in a prelude to winter and the demise of NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander, snow has been spotted falling from the clouds ...
The Sun has been strangely unblemished this year. On more than 200 days so far this year, no sunspots were spotted. That makes the Sun blanker this year than in any year since 1954, when it was spotless for 241 days. ...