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Interstellar Space or Not for Voyager 1
March 21, 2013 By Keith Lane
Reports of Voyager 1 in interstellar space appear to be inaccurate according to NASA’s Mission website, “The Voyager team is aware of reports today that NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system,” said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. “It is the consensus of the Voyager […]
Amazon CEO Finds Apollo Engines
March 20, 2013 By Keith Lane
Bezos Expeditions, operated by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, stated that they have recovered several Apollo F-1 rocket engines, as reported on their website.
Sun Diving Comet Will Be Visible
March 9, 2013 By Laith Preston
As the week goes on check out this rare event.
Pluto Moon Named Vulcan
February 26, 2013 By Michael Hickerson
The campaign by fans to name one of Pluto’s two moons Vulcan has succeeded. The name won by a landslide with 174,062 votes
NASA Tests Sending Messages Via Laser
January 22, 2013 By Michael Hickerson
One of humanity’s great works of art has been sent into the final frontier.
Lobbyist Proposes Funding NASA With Ads On Rockets
January 11, 2013 By Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
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 Michael Hickerson
We knew our universe had black holes, but we didn’t know it had this many.
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