NASA is juggling some its spacewalk missions for the crew of the space shuttle Endeavor after a tool bag being used by astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper floated off yesterday.
Stefanyshyn-Piper and fellow astronaut Stephen Bowen were cleaning and lubing a joint on the wing of the space station’s solar panels yesterday when the untethered toolbag floated away. […]

NASA’s Hubble Telescope has taken images of a planet that circles another star.
The first visible-light snapshot of Fomalhaut b was released last week in Science. The planet orbits a southern star, called Fomalhaut that is about 25 light-years away. The planet is estimated to be less than three times Jupiter’s mass, and the star is […]

Star Trek Force Field Might Shield Astronauts on Way to Mars
British and Portuguese researchers may have solved one of the biggest problems facing interplanetary travel — how to get astronauts there and back without deadly solar radiation frying their DNA and setting off a cascade of cancers and related diseases.
The answer? A force field to […]

Those muppets may have created “PIGS IN SPACE,” but the planet Mercury may turn out to be the home of “Smurfs In Space.”
The latest NASA flyby to our solar system’s closest planet to the sun has revealed that the tiny orb, once thought to be nothing more than a large rock and impact point for […]

New images from NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft are yielding a wealth of new information on the smallest planet in our solar system.
Earlier this year, a fly by of the planet  took hundreds of high-resolution pictures covering 30 percent of the planet’s eastern hemisphere that had never been seen before […]

At any given moment, there are thousands of man-made objects orbirting our planet.  Should an error occur and one come crashing back to Earth, we’re protected by our atmosphere.  Our atmosphere will burn up most objects before they impact the ground, except for the largest of objects.
But that’s not the case with the moon.
With our […]

Astronomers have discovered evidence of an alien solar system close enough to Earth that it could be seen with the naked eye.
The Epsilon Eridani is a mere 10.5 light years (approximately 63 trillion miles) away from Earth and is one of the eight closest stars to our solar system. Astronomers have observed at […]

NASA engineers say they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up computer parts that have been sleeping in space for more than 18 years. NASA will start fixing a glitch that stopped the Hubble telescope from capturing pictures from space.
On Wednesday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration […]

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Space Station Toilet Breaks Again
The master bathroom for three astronauts aboard the International Space Station is on the fritz again just days before a trio of new spaceflyers are due to launch toward the orbiting lab, NASA officials said Friday.
A temporary telemetry glitch also sent the space station into a so-called […]

NASA has already invested nearly $1.5 billion (USD) into its next planned Mars mission and all of that money could end up getting sucked into that gigantic black hole called the Congressional Budget. With a projected overun of more than 30 percent above budget, deep cuts are likely in NASA’s spreadsheet.
“The magnitude of the […]

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 Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental […]

(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 Thermal […]

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 […]

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 Stereo Camera aboard […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 specialist Rick Linnehan, a member of […]

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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, the Endeavor […]

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