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    June 19, 2017
    Artist's concept depicts an itsy bitsy planetary system -- so compact, in fact, that it's more like Jupiter and its moons than a star and its planets. Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently confirmed that the system, called KOI-961, hosts the three smallest exoplanets known so far to orbit a star other than our sun. NASA-JPL-Caltech
    NASA finds 10 new potentially habitable 'Earth-like' worlds
    Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have detected 219 possible new exoplanets in our galaxy, including 10 relatively small, rocky...
    newsJune 19, 2017 - 9:00pm
    May 8, 2017
    Deaf test subjects prepare for zero-gravity flight. (Courtesy of Gallaudet University Archives, David Myers Collection)
    How deaf men helped NASA understand motion sickness in space
    WASHINGTON - Barron Gulak remembers one experiment that did not take place in a lab. In 1964, Gulak and the other test subjects for the research...
    newsMay 8, 2017 - 2:58pm
    February 22, 2017
    Artist's concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech
    Astronomers find seven Earth-size planets where life may be possible
    Astronomers have found a nearby solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, three of which circle their parent star at the right distance for...
    newsFebruary 22, 2017 - 4:12pm
    February 18, 2017
    A SpaceX rocket sits on launch pad39A on Saturday after it was scrubbed 13 seconds before it was expected to launch. The new window for the mission, which will send cargo and hundreds of science experiments to the International Space Station, will open Sunday morning. Pad39A is the launch site of a rocket that carried the first U.S. astronauts to the moon. It was also the site of the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
    SpaceX launch scrubbed with 13 seconds to go
    A planned SpaceX launch Saturday was scrubbed 13 seconds before it was to lift off. The new window for the mission, which will send cargo and...
    newsFebruary 18, 2017 - 6:18pm
    January 7, 2017
    The left panel shows a false-color image of PGC 1000714. The right panel shows a B-I color index map that reveals both the outer ring (blue) and diffuse inner ring (light green). (Photo courtesy Ryan Beauchemin)play button
    UMD student publishes paper about out-of-this-world discovery
    Looking at a galaxy about 359 million light years away, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil was unsure that what she saw was real. She was researching a rare...
    news/educationJanuary 7, 2017 - 6:09pm
    October 11, 2016
    Dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks on Mars inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water are seen in an image produced by NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Arizona. Scientists have found the first evidence that briny water may flow on the surface of Mars during the planet's summer months, a paper published on Monday showed. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
    Obama sees human missions to Mars by 2030s
    WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would help send people to Mars as soon as 14 years from now, pledging to work with...
    newsOctober 11, 2016 - 11:30am
    September 1, 2016
    A still image taken from video of smoke rising on the launch site of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Fla., this morning. (NASA / Reuters)
    SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes during test firing
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral...
    newsSeptember 1, 2016 - 10:11am
    July 5, 2016
    The planet Jupiter is shown with one of its moons, Ganymede (bottom), in this NASA handout taken April 9, 2007. (NASA / Reuters)
    NASA's Juno spacecraft loops into orbit around Jupiter
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Juno spacecraft capped a five-year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a do-or-die engine burn to sling itself...
    newsJuly 5, 2016 - 10:43am
    December 22, 2015
    A remodeled version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Monday on the launcher's first mission since a June failure. (Reuters / Joe Skipper)play button
    SpaceX rocket lands safely in pivotal space feat
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Monday with a payload of communications satellites before the reusable...
    newsDecember 22, 2015 - 9:03am
    July 14, 2015
    Pluto is pictured from a million miles away in this image taken on Saturday from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager. (NASA)
    U.S. spacecraft flies by Pluto
    LAUREL, Md. - More than nine years after its launch, a U.S. spacecraft sailed past Pluto on Tuesday, capping a 3 billion mile journey to the...
    newsJuly 14, 2015 - 9:24am
    November 12, 2014
    A handout artist impression showing lander Philae separating from the Rosetta spacecraft and descending to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, made available by the European Space Agency on Wednesday. European scientists launched a probe from spaceship Rosetta on Wednesday in an historic attempt to examine the surface of a comet, starting a seven-hour descent that is seen as the most difficult phase of a ten-year mission. European Space Agency / Reuters
    European spacecraft successfully lands on comet
    BERLIN/FRANKFURT - The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet Wednesday, a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long...
    newsNovember 12, 2014 - 10:29am
    April 30, 2010
    Emily Wach and Ehren Inkel, with the UMD Astronomy Club, pull tape and hold the ladder for Eric Norland, with the Arrowhead Astronomical Society, as Norland uses aluminized plastic sheeting to seal the opening between the two sections of a life-sized Hubble Space Telescope mock-up Thursday evening at UMD. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
    You're invited on a mission to space
    In 2007, they went to Mars. In 2008, they landed on an asteroid. In 2009, it was a return visit to the moon. How would the Arrowhead Astronomical...
    newsApril 30, 2010 - 12:00am
    August 21, 2009
    ASTRO BOB Blog: March of the mini constellations
    We pull up our lawn chairs to get acquainted with the summer sky's second string celebrities. Read more at ASTRO BOB.
    August 21, 2009 - 11:51am
    July 26, 2009
    Reader's view: Moon landing caused international joke
    While reading the July 19 Sunday Opinion page, devoted to the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, I thought of the following. In the summer of 1969, I was working as a tennis pro at Schloss Fuschl (Van Ribbentrop's headquarters during World War II), a luxury resort outside Salzburg,...
    opinion/readers-viewsJuly 26, 2009 - 4:02pm
    July 19, 2009
    Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. He served as the Gemini 12 mission pilot in 1966 and as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. His book, "Magnificent Desolation," was published last month. (Associated Press)
    Astronaut's view: Time to boldly go once more
    On the spring morning in 1927 when Charles Lindbergh set off alone across the Atlantic Ocean, only a handful of explorer-adventurers were capable...
    opinionJuly 19, 2009 - 12:00am
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