From: redOrbit on Thu, Nov 25 2010 2:38 PM

The Glory spacecraft uses Orbital Sciences Corporation Space Systems Group’s LEOStar-1 bus design, with deployable, four-panel solar arrays. This conceptual animation reveals Glory's unique solar array deployment sequence. credit: NASA

From: redOrbit on Tue, Nov 23 2010 2:38 PM

Computer chips are the brains of modern electronics and the lifeblood of modern society. credit: ACS

From: redOrbit on Fri, Nov 19 2010 11:12 AM

A concept by University of Leicester scientists for a 'hopping' Mars exploration vehicle. credit: University of Leicester

From: redOrbit on Fri, Nov 19 2010 11:12 AM

This artist’s impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy, the Milky Way, from another galaxy. credit: ESO

From: redOrbit on Fri, Nov 19 2010 11:12 AM

This artist’s impression shows the slightly elliptical orbit of HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet around a star that entered our galaxy, the Milky Way, from another galaxy. credit: ESO

From: redOrbit on Fri, Nov 19 2010 11:12 AM

The September 12, 2000 coronal mass ejection (CME), which moves directly from the sun’s surface toward the viewer. This was recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

From: redOrbit on Thu, Nov 18 2010 11:00 AM

The binary star system J0923+3028 consists of two white dwarfs that are gradually spiraling in toward each other. credit: Harvard

From: redOrbit on Thu, Nov 18 2010 11:00 AM

Outside the International Space Station, Expedition 25 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka conducted a 6 hour, 27 minute spacewalk from the Russian Pirs Docking Compartment airlock November 15, 2010. credit: NASA

From: redOrbit on Tue, Nov 16 2010 10:31 AM

Astronaut Scott Kelly, Expedition 25 flight engineer, shows off the International Space Station’s observation deck known as the cupola. credit: NASA

From: redOrbit on Thu, Nov 11 2010 10:13 AM

For most, the word conjures images quaint coffee shops or busy airport lobbies — places where people drop in to check on business or check in with other people. But increasingly "wireless" is showing up on the farm to help produce better crops, net more money for growers and land a superio...

From: redOrbit on Tue, Nov 09 2010 10:08 AM

This video clip was compiled from images taken by NASA’s EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. credit: NASA/JPL

From: redOrbit on Tue, Nov 09 2010 10:08 AM

In the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, a blinking LCD signals the success of a five-year effort to power conventional electronic devices using nanoscale generators that harvest mechanical energy from the environment.

From: redOrbit on Sat, Nov 06 2010 9:49 AM

Discovery’s space shuttle managers have scrubbed Friday's launch attempt due to a hydrogen leak at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, or GUCP. credit: NASA

From: redOrbit on Thu, Nov 04 2010 9:48 AM

Purdue University has unveiled ''Impact: Earth!'' a new website that allows anyone to calculate the potential damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit the Earth. credit: Purdue

From: redOrbit on Thu, Nov 04 2010 9:48 AM

Galaxies congregate in clusters and superclusters, and at larger scales superclusters seem to blend into chains and filaments that span vast distances. credit: NASA

From: redOrbit on Wed, Nov 03 2010 9:48 AM

The historic Mars antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California has finished a major, delicate surgery that lasted several months. credit: NASA/JPL

From: redOrbit on Wed, Nov 03 2010 9:48 AM

Carolyn Crow explains how planetary colors may guide us to alien Earths. credit: NASA/GSFC

From: redOrbit on Wed, Nov 03 2010 9:48 AM

Keeping a close watch on the outer portion of Saturn’s B ring, Cassini records the complex inward and outward movement of the edge of the ring.

From: redOrbit on Wed, Nov 03 2010 9:48 AM

The outer edge of Saturn’s B ring exhibits an unexpected feature in this movie made from images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. credit: NASA/JPL

From: redOrbit on Wed, Nov 03 2010 9:48 AM

This movie, made from images obtained by Cassini of the outer edge of Saturn’s B ring, reveals the combined effects of a tugging moon and oscillations that can naturally occur in disks like Saturn's rings and spiral galaxies. credit: NASA/JPL