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Lobbyist Proposes Funding NASA With Ads On Rockets
January 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
Could NASA take a page from NASCAR to fund our exploration of space?
Voyager 1 Hasn’t Left Solar System (Yet)
December 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
One of the first probes launched into deep space is still in our solar system, but it won’t be for much longer.
Mars Rover Finds No Signs of Life
December 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Martian rover Curiosity has analyzed soil samples from a Martian land drift but did not find signs of the building blocks of life, NASA says.
Scientists Find Huge Black Hole
November 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
Scientists at University of Texas have found the most massive black hole yet discovered. Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, a team at the Austin’s McDonald Observatory have found a 17 billion solar mass behemoth residing at the heart of galaxy NGC 1277. Located 220 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus, NGC 1277 is a lenticular galaxy [...]
Lunar Rover Ready to Search for Water
October 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
With the success of the Mars rover, scientists are looking to explore other planetary bodies in our solar system. The search includes a closer neighbor, the Moon.
NASA Moving Forward On Moonbase Plans
October 4, 2012 by 2 Comments
NASA is moving forward with plans to establish a base on the far side of the moon. The idea, which would expand human spaceflight beyond Low Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo 17 in late 1972, is to use libration points, also known as Lagrange points, to “park” a spacecraft at a fixed [...]
Curiosity Records Martian Solar Eclipse
September 17, 2012 by 1 Comment
The list of awesome things sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity just continues to grow. The latest is footage of a solar eclipse on the surface of Mars.
NASA Discovers More Black Holes
August 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We knew our universe had black holes, but we didn’t know it had this many.
Remembering Neil Armstrong
August 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The first man to walk on the moon has passed away.
NASA Pays Tribute to Ray Bradbury
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
While award-winning sci-fi author Ray Bradbury didn’t live to see the Curiosity rover make it to Mars, NASA is keeping his spirit alive as we explore the Red Planet.
Curiosity Ready to Explore
August 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
After completing a successful test drive around a Martian crater, the Curiosity rover is ready to explore the surface of Mars.
How Long Will We Wait for NASA’s Next Astronomy Mission?
August 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
NASA plans to explore the universe, but it won’t be right away.
Mars Could Indicate How Much Life In the Universe
August 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
As the Curiosity rover begins its study of the Red Planet, scientists say that the answers it find there could give us answers to some bigger questions about our universe. The Mars Society founder Robert Zurbin tells Daily Galaxy that Mars could serve as a “Rosetta Stone” for whether or not there is life on other planets.
Could We Recycle Orbiting Satellites?
August 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to take recycling to the final frontier with a new program called Phoenix. Phoenix would take some of the hundreds of dead satellites orbiting our planet and recycle them.
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