March 3, 2008 A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken
the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's
north pole. Oct. 20, 2008 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. May 14, 2008 At long last, astronomers have found one
of the Milky Way's mysteriously missing supernovas. July 18,
2008 NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to
improve short-term weather forecasting. April 10, 2008 Unlike
Earth, the firmament of The Moonis directly exposed to charged
particles from the sun. What happens to moondust under the
onslaught of solar wind? Researchers in a NASA-supported lab are
finding some surprising answers. Jan. 15, 2008 Images from NASA
telescopes are jewels of the space program, marvelous to behold.
But how do you behold them when you can't see? The answer lies
between the covers of a new NASA-funded book written in Braille,
Touch the Invisibl