A giant hole in the Sun
By Tibi Puiu | ZMEscience If you’re a regular follower of NASA’s updates, you may have caught glimpses of some of the X-ray photos they report showing the surface of the sun. In these photos, dark specks of various sizes can be seen, which are actually what astronomers refer to as coronal holes. They may extend from the [...]
Read More →NASA to launch sun-watching satellite this month
The probe’s orbit will grant it a nearly continuous looks at the sun’s corona
Read More →Space Storm Could Black Out US East Coast for Two Years – Expert
By Karin Zeitvogel | RiaN Severe space “weather” can knock out satellite communications and GPS systems, expose space tourists and astronauts to dangerous levels of radiation, and even cause massive blackouts on Earth that could last up to two years, scientists and NASA officials warned at a conference here on Tuesday. A sun storm on the [...]
Read More →The Asteroid Set to Make a Close Encounter with the Earth on Friday Has a Moon
By Marc Bouche | SpaceRef New radar data obtained by NASA shows Asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. The asteroid will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The new radar data was obtained on May 29th when the asteroid was [...]
Read More →WISE mission finds lost asteroid family members between Mars and Jupiter
By Chillymanjaro | The Watchers Millions of infrared snapshots from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved asteroid family members in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. NEOWISE all-sky survey identified 28 new asteroid families. The next step for the team is to learn more about the original parent bodies that spawned the [...]
Read More →Is it lizard or beaver spotted on Mars? Blogger found strange creature on Curiosity’s photos
A Japanese science blogger claims to have spotted a lizard on Mars, while studying a picture of the Red Planet taken by the Curiosity rover. (VIDEO)
Read More →3D-printable food? NASA wants a taste
By Casey Johnston | Ars Technica NASA has bestowed a $125,000 grant upon a research corporation to pursue the development of 3D-printable food, according to a report from Quartz. Anjan Contractor, who runs Systems & Materials Research Corporation, hopes to design a system that will turn shelf-stable cartridges of sugars, complex carbs, and protein into edible food on demand. [...]
Read More →Bright Explosion on the Moon
By Dr. Tony Phillips | Science@NASA For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. “Lunar meteor showers” have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year. They’ve just seen the biggest explosion [...]
Read More →NASA’s Grover will explore Greenland ice sheet
Since the Arctic sun shines 24 hours a day during the summer, the solar-powered rover will be able to operate continuously.
Read More →Study: clean up space before dangerous debris collisions increase
By Liat Clark | Wired A study has estimated that dangerous space collisions will occur every five to nine years in our satellite and spacecraft orbit route if space junk is not effectively cleared soon. According to a report by the BBC, the study — carried out for the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee and announced at the Sixth [...]
Read More →Soviet Spacecraft Possibly Spotted On Mars
By Melissa Stusinski | Inquisitr A Soviet spacecraft may have been spotted on Mars by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Space fans from Russia scanned NASA images to discover the spacecraft’s remains. The craft landed on Mars in 1971, but mysteriously stopped working. The craft, Mars 3, worked for just 15 seconds before it stopped communications. It [...]
Read More →Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate
Science Blog Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new study appearing online today. The heliosphere is a region of space dominated by the Sun and its wind of energetic particles, and which is thought to be enclosed, [...]
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