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NASA adjusts launch dates
"HOUSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials moved the target launch date for the Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Hubble Space Telescope back two days to Oct. 10. The decision was made after Atlantis was rolled to the launch pad Thursday, NASA said Friday in a release....
First light for space telescope
"A powerful Nasa space telescope launched in June has unveiled its first results - including an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses". Nasa also revealed a new name; the Gamma-ray Large Area Space... Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System
"Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System Scientists in South Africa have detected radio signals from beyond the solar system for the first time – prompting a wave of excitement over who, or what,... DIY Stargazing in Siberia
Check it out: WWII vet and self-taught astronomer Mikhail Sergeyevich Levchenko built his own telescope from scratch in the shadow of the Cold War space race. For years, Levchenko kept it hidden for fear of being thought an eccentric. After his death in 2002, the device...NASA rolls out new shuttle launch schedule
"NASA unveiled a new launch schedule today that calls for eight shuttle missions in 2009 and 2010 and 10 overall before the nation's three-orbiter fleet is retired.The last of the missions now is slated to launch May 31, 2010 -- which would leave enough time to launch an...Canadian Satellite to Spot Killer Asteroids
The Canadian Space Agency is developing a satellite for tracking earth-bound asteroids. Remote though the risk is, they believe that $12 million is a reasonable price for peace of global mind. However, Morgan Freeman... NASA Launches new GLAST Gamma-Ray Telescope
UPDATE: The solar arrays deployed successfully. Engineers are now running a series of tests to check out the telescope's systems.Original story follows.And we have--another successful liftoff! This time, an... Giant Telescope Links New York And London
"A transatlantic portal opened first Giant Telescope Links New York And Londonon" Giant 'telescope' links London, New York
Awww, I knew this story was too good to be true!A giant 'telescope' has appeared near Tower Bridge in London and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.But all is not what it seems..." In all its optical brilliance and... Microsoft software brings universe down to Earth!
Microsoft wants to maketravelling the "final frontier" as simple as turning on yourcomputer." The world's largest software maker launched a free softwareapplication called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that... Vatican says aliens could exist
Just in case something is discovered." Vatican says aliens could exist By David... Microsoft Releases World-Wide Telescope
Microsoft launched the long awaited WorldWide Telescope late Monday. Accessed through a free web-based program, it brings the exploration of space to armchair astronomers everywhere. "galactic destinations and... Canadian satellite to detect Asteroids
"OTTAWA, May 2 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes."This is the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope," said Alan...Hubble telescope captures crashing galaxies
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers... Peanut-Stars | New Discovery Of Double Star Systems :: Oblate Spheroid
"Peanut-Star System - In a repeating cycle, one star moves to the front and blocks our view of the other. From Earth, the star system brightens and dims, as we see light from two stars, then only one star. The two...
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