Kepler Discovers a System of Tiny Planets
NASA science NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37, about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our moon, [...]
Read More →NASA astronauts confirm knowledge of UFOs
By Doc Vega | UFO Digest Aside from the numerous incidents that sometimes left US armed forces pilots dead, missing, or simply stunned in the wake of pursuing the enigmatic UFO during the late 1940’s and through out the 1950’s it would take some time before NASA mission astronauts would begin to acknowledge the truth as [...]
Read More →NASA knew Columbia crew could die but chose not to tell them
By David Ferguson | Raw Story A NASA flight director has revealed that personnel on the ground knew in 2003 that the Space Shuttle Columbia would not likely survive re-entry, but chose not to inform the vessel’s crew. According to an ABC News report from Thursday, when faced with the choice of letting the astronauts die [...]
Read More →Nasa lets you build your own satellite with PhoneSat
By Klint Finley | Wired What would you do with your own private satellite? If you haven’t decided, you should. PhoneSat – a project overseen by Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley — wants to lower the cost of building space satellites to the point where anyone with space ambitions could launch one. Yes, it’s a satellite made [...]
Read More →Surprising Surge of Lights Appears in North Dakota Darkness
By Valerie Conners | Skye When NASA revealed its stunning new images of the Earth at night - or the Black Marble, as some referred to the darkened planet – one NPR correspondent noticed something unusual: a mysterious mass of lights in North Dakota near the Canadian border. The sighting was surprising for a few reasons. First, there are no [...]
Read More →ESA mulling over an ‘Asteroid deflection mission’, seeks ideas
By NIX | The Watchers The thought of asteroid impact on Earth is intimidating – one that’s connected with catastrophic devastation in past and have always been a hot topic for fictional stories. Though space agencies are continuously watching the sky in search of potential future impact events, Earth is most definitely not immune to such impact yet. [...]
Read More →NASA finds 461 alien planet candidates, some possibly habitable
By Mike Wall | MNN NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has detected 461 new potential alien planets, including four worlds slightly larger than Earth that may be capable of supporting life as we know it. The 461 newfound candidate exoplanets, which were announced on Jan. 7, bring Kepler’s total haul in its first 22 months of [...]
Read More →NASA testing method to turn space trash into radiation shielding
By Mark Whittington | Examiner Recycling in not just a green lifestyle in space, but a necessity since transporting things to and from Earth tends to be expensive. NASA’s International Space Station recycles air and water as much as possible. Now NASA has developed a way to recycle solid waste, according to a Jan. 7, 2013 story in Space.com. [...]
Read More →NASA Considers Tugging An Asteroid Into Orbit Around The Moon
Australian PopSci NASA’s (and President Obama’s) vision for sending a manned space mission to a distant asteroid by the 2020s doesn’t seem to be gaining much steam, but a conceptual mission under development by the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California could bring an asteroid much closer to home in that timeframe. An estimated [...]
Read More →3D Printer Could Transform Moon Dirt Into Lunar Base
Space.com For space scientists dreaming up a manned base on the moon, 3D printing with lunar dust looms as an attractive possibility. Such on-demand fabrication would allow astronauts to repair broken parts, manufacture spare ones and maybe even build structures, all out of the dirt scooped from under their boots. In a new study involving [...]
Read More →Voyager 1 hits ‘magnetic highway’ to outer space
By Kate Taylor | TG Daily NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered the last region it has to cross before reaching interstellar space. The team describes this new region as a ‘magnetic highway’ for charged particles. Our sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magnetic field lines, allowing lower-energy charged particles originating inside our heliosphere to [...]
Read More →Curiosity may have made `historic` discovery on Mars
By Jamie Williamson | TopNews It seems that Mars rover Curiosity has made yet another profound discovery, but mission scientists are keeping quiet for the time being. As Curiosity continue its cutting-edge laboratory work on the surface of Mars, inside Gale Crater on a plain called Aeolis Palus, mission scientists are itching to announce a [...]
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