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2.5.2010 - Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission
Space Weather: The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's inner dynamo, and--researchers hope--unravel the mysteries of solar variability.
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2.2.2010 - Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision
Asteroids: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.
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1.29.2010 - Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
Lightning: There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate.
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1.26.2010 - Close Encounter with Mars
Astronomy: This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014.
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1.26.2010 - Spirit is Now a Stationary Science Platform
Mars Exploration: NASA announced today that Mars rover Spirit cannot be freed from its Martian sandtrap. Now the rover will begin a second career as a stationary science platform.
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1.15.2010 - Mystery of the Giant Ribbon, Solved?
Astronomy: Evidence is mounting that a strong magnetic field lurks just beyond the edge of the solar system. This could explain the recent discovery of a "giant ribbon" in space by NASA's IBEX spacecraft.
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1.14.2010 - Alien Planet Safari
Astronomy: NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is designed to study stars and galaxies. Astronomers are beginning to realize, however, that Webb will make a great planet hunter too.
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1.8.2010 - Flying Telescope Passes Key Test
Astronomy: Most astronomers wouldn't dream of opening their observatory's doors in 100 mph winds. Yet NASA's new SOFIA telescope recently flew in an airplane at 250 mph with doors wide open.
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1.7.2010 - Why Won't the Supernova Explode?
Supernovas: NASA is building a new space telescope named "NuSTAR" to answer a question that has been vexing astrophysicists for decades: Why won't the supernova explode?
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1.4.2010 - Kepler Discovers Five Exoplanets
Extra-solar Planets: NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets.
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