The Comet Lovejoy soared into the Sun on December 16, 2011, but instead of being devoured by the mighty star, it instead emerged from the…
Scaled Composites, as funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will build a new carrier aircraft for the new company called Stratolaunch Systems. The goal of…
American astronomer Carl Sagan spoke on October 13, 1994, about a photograph taken by the probe Voyager 1 from its far vantage point over four…
Following some concern that they didn't know where all their rocks were, NASA commissioned an audit - which confirmed they didn't know where all their…
The Geminid meteor shower is expected to reach its peak number of viewable meteors between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, December 13-14, 2011. However, there…
NASA announced on December 9, 2011, that SpaceX will launch its Dragon spacecraft on February 7, 2012, for the very first flight of a private…
A total lunar eclipse will be present in the western parts of the United States and Canada, along with Australia, Alaska, Hawaii, and parts of…
According to a December 7, 2011 NASA report, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has discovered a vein of mineral, which mission scientists think is gypsum,…
Astronomers have measured the mass of the largest of the black holes known to inhabit the universe. They are as large as our solar system…
For the night-owls, look up in the northern sky a little after midnight on Sunday December 11th and the moon which ought to be blazing…
