Touching Asteroid rendezvous

Fairy Watch

• NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today
  NASA will host a news teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, today, May 15, to discuss the status of the agency's Kepler Space Telescope. […]
• NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts On Mars
  Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across. […]
• Media Accreditation Open For Launch Of NASA's Next Mission To Mars
  International and U.S. media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. […]
• NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planet Debris
  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. […]
• NASA Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
  NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected for membership in the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original scientific research. […]
• NASA Invites Public to Send Names and Messages to Mars
  NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. […]
• Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
  The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected. […]
• NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
  Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. […]
• NASA'S Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date
  NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. […]
• Sofia Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation
  Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of dust and gas. […]