Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering News
Posted on May 01, 2011 at 11:31:20 am
The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters
Posted on April 30, 2011 at 09:46:15 pm
Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 08:05:47 am
An international team of astronomers have revealed details of a "super-exotic" exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar pale in comparison
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 08:36:11 am
That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 07:57:44 am
A sky with two suns is a favorite image for science fiction films, but how would a binary star system affect life evolving on an orbiting planet?
Posted on April 18, 2011 at 08:26:33 am
A new image of nebula shows giant loops of gas bearing a striking resemblance to solar prominences
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 08:20:39 am
If you've ever stood in front of a hot stove, watching a pot of water and waiting impatiently for it to boil, you know what it feels like to be a solar physicist
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:51:27 am
A Korean satellite has caught an eye-catching view of an island in Mexico known for a deep, rocky hole and waters so dark that they earned it the name Holbox, a name that means "black hole."
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 08:12:05 am
ESA's Herschel space observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 07:28:37 pm
Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. This result sheds new light on the formation of the first galaxies, as well as on the early
