NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline
The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 17.4 billion...
Super-Earth Atmosphere
A team of astronomers, including two NASA Sagan Fellows, has made the first characterizations of a super-Earth's atmosphere, by using a ground-based telescope...
Kepler Discovers
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star...
At 8:48 p.m. EST, space shuttle Discovery astronauts Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew will “campout” in the Quest airlock, preparing for Monday’s spacewalk. The airlock’s atmospheric pressure will be lowered to help purge nitrogen from Bowen and Drew’s bloodstreams, protecting them from “the bends” when they leave the airlock for the vacuum of space. The space station crew goes to sleep at 9:53 p.m. EST followed by Discovery’s crew at 10:23 p.m.