Submitted by: Michael R. Mennenga (FarPoint Media President, COO) According to Universe Today: “It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more “provocative” than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved... 

(CNN) — The Phoenix lander got its robotic arm onto a sample of water ice from Mars’ surface and popped the ice into tiny, onboard “ovens” that will help determine if the water could support life, NASA researchers said Thursday. “We have water,” said Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the... 

What does an alien see when they gaze in the direction of our solar system and little blue orb of Earth we call home? Scientists got their answer to that question after an Earth craft that is now 31 million miles away from us sent back pictures of the Earth and our orbiting Moon. The spacecraft is on a comet survey mission. The view the craft sent... 

Source: Fox Sci Tech News Newly released images from U.S. and European spacecraft support growing evidence that Mars once was a water-rich planet capable of supporting life. The new views reveal details of regions thought to contain water-bearing minerals and geological formations formed billions of years ago. Stunning images captured by the High-Resolution... 

NASA scientists are pretty positive that the latest white stuff uncovered by the Phoenix Lander’s shovel is small bits of ice. Small pieces of bright whitish material, which some thought could be salt, vanished, as if it had vaporized in the Martian atmosphere after being exposed to it by the shovel. The fact that it vaporized after being exposed... 

In an update to our previous Shuttle story earlier in the day, NASA has cleared the space shuttle Discovery for a landing attempt tomorrow (Saturday - June 14) after determining that a piece of floating debris and what looks like a bump on its tail shouldn’t present a problem during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.  Read More →

Source: Fox News HOUSTON — Astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery hit a bump in the road on their otherwise smooth preparation for re-entry — a bump on the tail fin, to be more precise. After finishing the standard pre-landing steering-jet test, the crew spotted a strange bump on the rudder, Discovery’s vertical tail fin. They also saw... 

The latest new images received Saturday (May 31) from the Phoenix lander now sitting comfortably near Mars’ equivalent of the North Pole has scientists excited. It appears from the images that the spacecraft’s thrusters may have uncovered a large patch of ice located just below the Martian surface. It appears that the Phoenix is resting... 

While many Americans will be paying tribute to their fallen war heros this weekend and turning steaks on the barbie, NASA scientists will be busy staring at computer screens and biting their nails down to the nub. NASA has been extremely successful over the last several years with their Mars missions, epecially when one considers that those feisty rovers,... 

The world held it’s collective breath last month when the Russian Soyuz TMA-11 capsule came plowing through the atmosphere off course, with an approach too steep and far too fast. Onboard at the time were U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and South Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon returning from their trip the the... 

Written by: Derek Kessler (Trek United News Director) Both a former U.S. Senator and a legendary astronaut, when John Glenn speaks about NASA, people have a tendency to listen. Glenn not only was the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, but also is the oldest astronaut, having rode the space shuttle into orbit in 1998 - at age of 77. Glenn was present... 

I only waited one day to post this since it came out on April Fools Day….I didn’t want to chance being duped. Chris Mulrooney of Trek To The Troops already got me good yesterday, I just couldn’t take another! Make of it what you will, but it does sound like an exciting idea either way and with Branson at the wheel…who knows…the... 

Neil Armstrong is known for two extreme things. He was the first human being to ever set foot on another world when he leaped off of that ladder, planted his foot in Moon dust and said, “That’s one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind.” The other extreme thing the famous astronaut is known for is his reclusive lifestyle,... 

Scientists have discovered a wealth of information from one of Saturn’s smallest moons, Enceladus. What they have found are the basic building blocks for life. Contents from erupting plumes off the surface of the moon and studied by the Cassini spacecraft have revealed that just beneath the moon’s surface there is all the essentials for... 

If there is intelligent life out there zooming around in their interstellar craft then without doubt, should they happen upon us at night there would be little doubt that there is at least semi-intelligent life on this planet. Here is what an alien would see if they passed close to Earth oribit over the North American Continent at night. [View of parts... 

Garrett Reisman captured Earth, the space shuttle and the space station in his visor during his spacewalk this past week. [AP Photo]  Read More →

The headline sounds like a new Muppet skit, but in reality, a glimpse of an iPod was seen by NASA’s cameras onboard the International Space Station (ISS). It can be seen in the window of the space shuttle Endeavour. Since astronaut and NASA planetary geologic specialist Dr. David Williams has been a past guest on our show, I wonder if they listen... 

Written by: Dave Mosher (Space Staff Writer) Astronauts Install Japanese Room, Assemble Robot in Space Two spacewalking astronauts worked through the night high above the Earth to install Japan’s first orbital room and attach hands to a two-armed robot named Dextre. International Space Station (ISS) flight engineer Garrett Reisman and mission... 

Source: Fox SciTech News LOS ANGELES — Three years after gigantic geysers were spied on an icy Saturn moon, the international Cassini spacecraft is poised to plunge through the fringes of the mysterious plumes to learn how they formed. Wednesday’s flyby will take Cassini within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus at closest approach. The unmanned... 

Astronauts from the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavor will assemble the new two-armed robot dubbed Dextre for the International Space Station (ISS). Shuttle Commander Dominic Gorie and pilot Gregory Johnson will be lending their expertise during the assembly process for the sci-fi styled space robot once the shuttle docks this week with the ISS. Besides Dextre,... 

Source: CNN News The South Korean government has named a female mechanical engineer as its first person to go to space after replacing its initial choice at the request of Russian space authorities. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said at a news conference Monday that Yi So-yeon will replace Ko San as the country’s choice to... 

A European supply rocket successfully lifted off from French Guiana early this morning (Sunday) for its mission carrying much needed oxygen, food, water and equipment to the international space station (ISS). The launch was originally scheduled for one day earlier (Saturday) but had to have its countdown stopped to allow for more checks on the rocket... 

This image has captured at least four Martian avalanches, or debris falls, in action. It was taken on February 19, 2008, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Click on the image for the full story.  Read More →

Written by: Robert Roy Britt (Senior Science Writer - Space.com) A total eclipse of the moon tonight is expected to delight skywatchers across the United States and much of the world. It will be the last total lunar eclipse until 2010. The easy-to-watch event will play out in several stages as Earth’s shadow blocks sunlight from shining on the... 

Press Release The American Museum of Natural History, with its impressive space collection, proved to be the ideal venue for Virgin Galactic to present the new design for SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and WhiteKnight Two (WK2) to the World’s press on 23rd January 2008. The Press Conference also allowed the Virgin Galactic panel to provide an update on the... 

Written by: Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute Source: Space.com Incredibly, it’s been only a bit more than a century since Oliver Heaviside consolidated the work of several 19th century physicists into the four compact mathematical formulations known as Maxwell’s Equations. You may gleefully recall them from sophomore physics. Aside from... 

The infamous 2007 WD5 asteroid was once predicted to have a 3 in 1 chance of smashing into the planet Mars causing a real treat for astonomers on Earth. Then as time elapsed, better figures came in, the space scientists began hedging their bets. Then just two weeks ago it was proclaimed that the asteroid would come close but miss the Red planet. Well,... 

Here’s a glimpse of the first images astronomers have been able to get from an asteroid that will miss our planet by the narrow margin of 334,000 miles (537,500 kilometers), at 3:33PM ET time today (JAN. 29). That is like a hairs-breath in space measurments, just a tad more distant than our Moon is from us [239,228 miles (385,000 kilometers)].... 

Is it a human-like statue, a woman from Mars or just a trick of Mars sunlight and shadows on the outcroppings? You decide. Here is your first look at an image spotted in a recent NASA photo from the Red Planet sent by the Spirit Rover. And they say only amateur UFO enthusiasts take blurry pictures of the unknown!  Read More →

NASA and JPL have now been determined that asteroid 2007 WD5 will indeed miss Mars scathing by the Red Planet at nearly 3000 miles away, which in space distance is like walking across the street. The latest bit of data has dropped the chances from 4% to less than 0.01% and will deny astronomical observers a chance to measure and research, first hand,... 

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