Paintballs May Some How Save the Earth From an Asteroid
Researchers suggest that a white, reflective asteroid can potentially bounce enough sunlight off of its surface that it will eventually be physically pushed in one direction or another over time. We...
View ArticleBringing Humans to Mars May Threaten Life on the Planet
Scientists say that more than 100 trillion microorganisms will be crawling on every astronaut that travels to Mars. All these microorganisms have evolved over thousands of years to help us here on...
View ArticleMars Rover Technology Helps Unlock Art Mysteries
Interestingly, the same technology being used in space — a key part of a tool the Rover will use to gather data about Mars — is also now being used on planet Earth to help unlock the analytical...
View ArticleFermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced By the First Stars
This animation bellow tracks several gamma rays through space and time, from their emission in the jet of a distant blazar to their arrival in Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT). During their journey,...
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Curiosity Takes a Self Portrait
Click to make larger. This is probably one of the best pictures we have seen from Mars so far. This image was takin by Curiosity’s MAHLI hand-held camera which is fixed to the rover’s extendable arm....
View ArticleNASA’S Curiosity Rover Provides Clues to Changes in Martian Atmosphere
Learning what happened to the Martian atmosphere will help scientists assess whether the planet ever was habitable. The present atmosphere of Mars is 100 times thinner than Earth’s. A set of...
View ArticleAstronauts Get to Vote from Space
This was made possible in 1997, when a bill was passed in Texas specifically intended to ensure the many astronauts would be able to vote wherever they might be. How do they cast their vote? Well,...
View ArticleNew Planet Found
The new study was published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The team of researchers detected CFBDSIR2149’s infrared signature by using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, and they...
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Revealing Hidden Black Holes
The spiral galaxy NGC 3627 is located about 30 million light years from Earth. This composite image includes X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), infrared data from the Spitzer...
View ArticleSoyuz Spacecraft Launched
On December 19,2012 The Soyuz TMA-07M rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan. On board are: Tom Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield from Canada, and Roman Romanenko of Russia....
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