Spitzer Telescope Spots Echo of Violent Early Solar System Activity

 NASA’s Spitzer space telescope has unveiled what may be a “nearby” replay of the same violent processes that unfolded in our own solar system billions of years ago. Imagery from the infrared observatory has spotted a stream of comets raining down on...

Something Like the Ultimate Science Fair — A Chance for YouTube Savvy Teens to Fly an Experiment Aboard the International Space Station

  NASA is teaming with global space agencies as well as some of the top names in commercial space, Internet communications and personal computers to underwrite a pair of out of this world opportunities for teens to develop a life science or  physics experiment...

New Evidence Suggests Kuiper Belt Comets Provided Water for Earth’s Oceans

  Scientists have compelling new evidence the Earth’s oceans formed from the impact of comets during the early years of the solar system, and quite likely a specific class of the icy objects from a region known as the Kuiper Belt Tenants of the Kuiper Belt...

Astronaut Mike Fossum, the International Space Station Commander, Goes 1 on 1 with the Middle School Students at the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference

  International Space Station commander Mike Fossum, a NASA astronaut, took a series of wide ranging questions from middle school students on Tuesday. The students are participants in the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technical Conference at the University of...