Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an event that will not be seen again for over a hundred years. The occasion also celebrates the first transit while there is a spacecraft orbiting the planet - ESA's Venus Express.
May 25, 2012 - 3:56:49 PM
With Venus about to get its day in the Sun "literally", the European Space Agency has assembled an excellent video about our planetary neighbor. Once thought to be similar to Earth, possibly even having liquid water and plant life on its surface, Venus has since been discovered to be anything but hospitable to life. VIDEO INSIDE
May 25, 2012 - 3:31:06 PM
This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft taken from Canadarm2's video camera as Dragon approaches the International Space Station, Friday, May 25, 2012. In foreground is a portion of Canadarm2.
May 25, 2012 - 3:20:43 PM
Infrared and visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite taken on May 25, 2012, showed an impressive Typhoon 'Sanvu' already affecting the islands of Iwo To and Chichi Jima, Japan. The typhoon is expected to run into cooler waters and become extra-tropical over the next several days.
May 25, 2012 - 3:15:28 PM
NASA's TRMM satellite passed above Hurricane Bud on May 25 at 12:49 a.m. EDT/U.S. and it saw a large area of moderate to heavy rainfall with rates of over 30mm/hr (~1.2 inches). Bud's past and predicted locations are shown overlaid in white. Heavy rainfall is indicated in red, falling at 2 inches/50 mm/hr.
May 25, 2012 - 3:08:34 PM
A forensic approach that links changes deep below a volcano to signals at the surface is described by scientists from the University of Bristol in a paper published today in Science. The research could ultimately help to predict future volcanic eruptions with greater accuracy.
May 24, 2012 - 1:49:22 PM
Results of a new U.S. Geological Survey study conclude that faults west of Lake Tahoe, Calif., referred to as the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard assessment for the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada, and could potentially generate earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 6.3 to 6.9. A close association of landslide deposits and active faults also suggests that there is an earthquake-induced landslide hazard along the steep fault-formed range front west of Lake Tahoe.
May 24, 2012 - 1:37:12 PM
Emergency officials in Costa Rica say they have moved some residents away from a volcano outside the capital after it spewed toxic gas and ash, signs of a potentially imminent eruption.
May 24, 2012 - 12:46:30 PM
Two NASA satellites have provided infrared and rainfall data that has shown Tropical Storm Sanvu continues to intensify as it heads toward Iwo To, Japan. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has scanned rainfall rates, and NASA's Aqua satellite has provided a look at cloud temperatures which indicates where the strongest thunderstorms and heaviest rainfall is occurring.
May 24, 2012 - 12:40:38 PM
MIAMI — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Bud is moving far off of Mexico's Pacific coast and could develop into a hurricane overnight or later Thursday.
May 24, 2012 - 12:36:28 PM
The federal government is predicting a near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic this year: anywhere from four to eight hurricanes forecast.
May 24, 2012 - 12:00:52 PM
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.
May 24, 2012 - 10:54:41 AM
A telescope in Hawaii has captured a spectacular new view on a distant nebula, revealing a glowing swirl of gas that is at the center of an unsolved mystery surrounding the nebula's birth.
May 24, 2012 - 10:05:50 AM
A NASA spacecraft snapped dazzling new photos of two Saturn moons and began tilting its orbit in preparation for more a detailed study of the giant planet's poles and rings.
May 24, 2012 - 9:58:28 AM
Today a post-shock solar wind was followed by a fast solar wind stream (with the speed reaching 700 km/s) from a small low-latitude coronal hole in the southern hemisphere.
May 23, 2012 - 5:05:38 PM
