Fermi’s Large Area Telescope resolved high-energy gamma rays from an extended region around the active galaxy Centaurus A. The emission corresponds to million-light-year-wide radio-emitting gas thrown out by the galaxy’s supersized black hole. NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope maps gamma rays, radiation that typically packs 100 billion times the energy of radio waves. Nevertheless, and to the surprise of many Read more »

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will carry it into space will be launched on Thursday morning. The launch window for Thursday runs from 10:23 a.m. to 11:23 a.m. It will be the second attempt to launch SDO. An earlier try was scrubbed because of high winds. The weather forecast improves to Read more »

For the first time is history, someone sent a "tweet" from the space. US astronaut TJ Creamer, on board the International Space Station (ISS), posted the "tweet" at 12.13 a.m on Friday, January 22, 2010. With this, Creamer became the first person to "tweet’ directly from the space. This is definitely a big leap in the history of social media. Read more »

US space agency NASA has chosen three space projects as final candidates for the agency’s next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The projects either aims to probe Venus, an asteroid or the Moon. The projects are part of the New Frontiers Program, designed to carry out frequent, low-cost scientific missions to enhance understanding of the Read more »

An international team of planet hunters has found four new planets orbiting two nearby stars that are very similar to the Sun. These discoveries point the way to the detection of potentially habitable worlds within a few years. The planets were found by Australian, American and British astronomers using the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales and the Keck Telescope Read more »

VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy), a new telescope, has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths and is the world’s largest telescope dedicated to mapping the sky. Its large mirror, wide field of view and very sensitive detectors will reveal Read more »

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s 2009-2019 Moon Work Design Contest in now open. Are you an engineering student? Want to work at NASA as paid interns? Moon Work Design Contest is a great opportunity for you because this year, the top-ranked students will be offered a chance to intern with a team from NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program. Read more »

US space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A welcome ceremony for the astronauts will be held on Monday, November 30, in Houston. The public is invited to attend the 4 p.m. CST event at Read more »