Belief can be such a funny thing.

In a recent discussion, some friends and I were highlighting our favorite (read: most humorous) UFO and extraterrestrial claims. Many standards crept into the conversation, from the latter-day mythologies spun around Roswell to the unfortunate numbers sucked in by (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) the magical UFO-summoning ability claimed by “Prophet Yahweh.”
As […]

The Pegasus rocket carrying ST5 drops away from the L-1011 carrier aircraft known as “Stargazer.” Image credit: NASA
ST5 Launch Status Update
Pegasus is away! At 9:03 a.m. EST, the Pegasus rocket carrying three ST5 micro-satellites dropped from its carrier jet.
All three of the ST5 satellites have deployed from the Pegasus rocket and are orbiting Earth. Next, […]

Artist’s concept of the ST5 spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA
After a mechanical glitch scrubbed the first launch attempt of NASA’s Space Technology 5 mission last week, the stage is all set for the second launch attempt tomorrow morning (March 22nd). NASA TV coverage of the launch begins at 7:15 AM Eastern time (according to the NTV […]

Wow, talk about “first light”…
After three years of eager anticipation, bigtime news was released Thursday from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The spacecraft has been invaluable thus far in providing the most accurate measurements to date of variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (anisotropies), helping cosmologists greatly refine their models describing the age […]

Today’s new press release from the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals an entirely new view of Messier Object 82, casually known as the Cigar Galaxy. Residing some 12 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major, this irregular galaxy is a favorite target of observers and astrophotographers alike.
At top is the new false-color (infrared) image; […]

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Mimas briefly slipped in front of Tethys while the Cassini spacecraft looked on and captured the event in this series of images.
The images were taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 11, 2006, at a distance of approximately 3.7 million kilometers (2.3 million miles) from Mimas […]

Artist’s concept of the ST5 spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA
NASA’s Space Technology 5 spacecraft (ST5) launch was aborted today. A locking pin in the Orbital Science’s Pegasus XL rocket’s flight control service mechanism did not retract just prior to launch. Orbital Sciences and NASA engineers will diagnose and correct the problem.
A new launch date will be […]