You need to upgrade your Flash Player
This website requires the 'flash player' version 9 or higher. You can download that software (for free) at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.
You need to upgrade your Flash Player
This website requires the 'flash player' version 9 or higher. You can download that software (for free) at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.
You need to upgrade your Flash Player
This website requires the 'flash player' version 9 or higher. You can download that software (for free) at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.
You need to upgrade your Flash Player
This website requires the 'flash player' version 9 or higher. You can download that software (for free) at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.
You need to upgrade your Flash Player
This website requires the 'flash player' version 9 or higher. You can download that software (for free) at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer or for linux here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html.
Description
Explore. Discover. Understand. With Science
Details
Owner of this Channel? Claim it! or grab your chicklet Website: http://science.nasa.gov
RSS Feed
Feed last modified: 04 December 2008 11:42:21 (GMT +01:00) Check for update
PodNova Ranking: 17
Available Episodes (20)
Venus and Jupiter are converging for a spectacular three-way conjunction with the crescent Moon--a rare gathering some are calling 'the sky show of the year.' Today's story tells
The solar wind appears to be ripping big chunks of air from the atmosphere of Mars. This could help solve a longstanding mystery about the Red Planet.
Please vote for this podcast...
An international team of researchers has discovered a puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons bombarding Earth from space. The source of these cosmic rays is unknown, but it must...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. The planet, called 'Fomalhaut b', orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut,...
NASA astronomers have set up a monitoring station to scan the night sky for unknown or unexpected meteor showers--and they're finding more than they bargained for.
Please vote for...
A surge of new-cycle sunspots in October may signal the beginning of the end of the ongoing solar minimum.
Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley!
Get this podcast story....
Researchers have discovered 'magnetic portals' forming high above Earth that can briefly connect our planet to the Sun. Not only are the portals common, one space physicist contends...
The planets are gathering for spooky sunset sky show on Oct. 31st. Read today's story to find out where to look.
Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley!
Get this podcast...
Gamma-ray bursts are by far the brightest and most powerful explosions in the Universe, second only to the Big Bang itself. So it might seem a bit surprising that a group of them has...
Cosmic explosions known as gamma-ray bursts are curiously picky about where they explode. Shunning spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, gamma-ray bursts prefer to 'go off' in oddball...
A curiously short-lived type of gamma-ray burst has astronomers puzzled. Leading experts discuss the clues at today's Gamma-ray Burst Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
Please vote...
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new kind of pulsar that hints at a previously unsuspected population of stars waiting to be found in the Milky Way.
Please...
More than four decades after they were discovered, gamma-ray bursts continue to mystify astrophysicists. Next week, experts from 25 countries will converge on Huntsville, Alabama,...
Last month when scientists switched on the Large Hadron Collider, the world did not come to an end. In today's story, a particle physicist explains why not--and why Earth is safe
A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make 'unbelievably large' telescopes on the Moon.
Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley!...
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury on Oct. 6th capturing amazing new images of never-before-seen terrain.
Please vote for this podcast at PodcastAlley!
Get this podcast...
Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high solar...
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is returning to Mercury. On Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, the probe will conduct the second of three planned flybys and photograph most of Mercury's remaining
Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 has become the blankest year of the Space Age. Sunspot counts are at a 50-year low, signifying a deep minimum in the 11-year...
In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power. This development has repercussions across the solar system.
Please vote
