Build Your Own Moon: Online Lunar Game Nabs Honors By Nola Taylor Redd published 1 February 13 In 'CyGaMEs Selene II: A Lunar Construction GaME,' you can build your moon from the comfort of your own home.
NASA's Next Space Telescope Coming Together, Piece by Piece By Nola Taylor Redd published 28 January 13 Engineers have been testing out the huge telescope's parts to prep for its deployment in 2018.
Scientists See Big Rewards (and Risk) in Private Spaceflight By Nola Taylor Redd published 23 January 13 The burgeoning industry should help create new technologies and bring launch costs down.
Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed By Nola Taylor Redd published 3 January 13 Baby planets pull gas and dust toward their parent star, helping young suns to continue in their evolution.
Black Holes Spew Out Surprise By Nola Taylor Redd published 14 December 12 The relativistic jets created by ancient supermassive black holes and tiny baby ones are more similar than previously realized.
Space Bursts Provide Insight to Theory of Everything By Nola Taylor Redd published 10 December 12 Gamma rays from some of the universe's most energetic explosions are allowing scientists to probe the structure of space-time.
Double Star Systems May Be Hiding a Third Companion By Nola Taylor Redd published 5 December 12 Many binary systems spread across vast distances could host a third star in their center.
Distant Black Hole Reveals Chemistry of the Early Universe By Nola Taylor Redd published 5 December 12 The brightest object in the early universe is helping to shine light on conditions soon after the Big Bang.
Did Solar System's Planets Have Rings Before Moons? By Nola Taylor Redd published 29 November 12 The moons in the solar system may have formed from massive rings around their planet.
Saturn Moon Titan's Atmosphere Shows Surprising Rise By Nola Taylor Redd published 28 November 12 NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturnd made the find as seasons change on Titan.
Mercury Photos Reveal Strange 'Pie Crust' Surface By Nola Taylor Redd published 21 November 12 The contraction of the planet Mercury pulled the surface together, but new formations created by stretching have recently been found near squeezed features.
Strange Star Spiral Offers Clues to Sun's Fate By Nola Taylor Redd published 10 October 12 A companion star pushing through expelled dust and gas around a red giant star created a spiral structure.
Christopher Columbus: A Brief Biography By Nola Taylor Redd published 5 October 12 Find out who we celebrate on Columbus Day.
Earth-Sun Distance Measurement Redefined By Nola Taylor Redd published 25 September 12 Astronomers have redefined the Astronomical Unit as a set value rather than an equation.
Newfound Alien Planet a Top Contender to Host Life By Nola Taylor Redd published 21 September 12 Gliese 163c may be capable of supporting hardy microbes.
New Mars Theory Questions Red Planet's Watery Past By Nola Taylor Redd published 10 September 12 Lava, not water, may have moistened ancient Mars, and could have limited its habitability.
The Pentagon By Nola Taylor Redd published 7 September 12 The Pentagon is home of the U.S. Defense Department.
Meteoroids Change Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, Venus By Nola Taylor Redd published 5 September 12 Researchers may be able to use this information to learn more about comets' paths around the sun.
Strange Emissions May Help Unlock Neutron Stars' Mysteries By Nola Taylor Redd published 24 August 12 The X-ray discovery could shed light on the composition of these amazingly dense objects.
NASA Launching Twin Space Probes Into Earth's Radiation Belts Friday By Nola Taylor Redd published 24 August 12 NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes will study Earth's radiation-heavy Van Allen Belts.
NASA's Huge New Mars Rover Targets Biggest Red Planet Mysteries By Nola Taylor Redd published 31 July 12 Where might life on Mars live? How did a wet planet turn dry?
50-Mile Landslides Spotted on Saturn's Icy Moon By Nola Taylor Redd published 30 July 12 Some landslides on Saturn's icy moon, Iapetus, travel 10 to 15 times farther than scientists expected.
How the Euclid Telescope Will Probe the Invisible Universe By Nola Taylor Redd published 10 July 12 Europe's $788 million Euclid mission will launch an ambitious space telescope to map dark matter and dark energy.
Vanishing Dust Belt Around Star Baffles Scientists By Nola Taylor Redd published 4 July 12 A ring of dust and gas around a distant young star appears to have vanished without a trace.
Solar Tornadoes as Big as US Heat Sun's Atmosphere By Nola Taylor Redd published 28 June 12 The sun's super-tornadoes are thousands of miles across and may super-heat the star's atmosphere.
