NASA Reveals Stunning Photos of Sun’s Corona
NASA captured stunning images of the sun’s corona, the million degree atmosphere surrounding the sun, from a 16 megapixel telescope called the HI-C. The telescope was launched on a sub-orbital rocket...
View ArticleSally Ride, America’s First Female Astronaut in Space, Dies
Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut in space passed away today after a 17 month battle with pancreatic cancer. According to her website, Sally Ride Science: Sally Ride died peacefully on...
View ArticleAll You Need To Know About The Mars Rover Landing
The new Mars Rover, Curiosity, is poised to land on the Red Planet at 0524 GMT on 6th August. There have been no reported delays or corrections for tomorrow. The final path corrections were made today,...
View ArticleCuriosity Touches Down on Mars As Humankind’s Hand Extends Further Into The...
This is one invasion that everyone is delighted about! Man invaded Mars again, with the giant Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity, the new Mars Rover, landing on Mars today. The whole payload managed to...
View ArticleEditorial: Curiosity Killed the Planet, Why Now is Not the Time to Explore Mars
The face of Curiosity As I sit here wearing my NASA t-shirt, I feel like I am back in my old college speech class when the professor asked us to give a persuasive speech about something we didn’t...
View ArticleDinosaur Footprint Discovered in NASA’s Back Yard
While NASA was busy peering into deep space to find the origins of life, an ancient life-form had left an indelible print right in its own back yard. Noted dinosaur hunter, Ray Stanford, went hunting...
View ArticleOne Half Million Mile Solar Filament Observed
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has observed an incredible whip-like filament extending high above the sun’s surface. Pictured below, the filament measures one half million miles long. To put...
View ArticleA Rebuttal to “Curiosity Killed the Planet”
Introduction: In mid August, our author, Darrin Jenkins, wrote an editorial explaining why he thought that we shouldn’t be spending so much money on space probes, like the Curiosity lander. In the...
View ArticleNASA Detects A Burst Stronger Than Any Seen Before
A recent blast from a dying star has left astronomers, gaping in awe at the sheer magnitude. A distant eruption, classified now as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) and named GRB 130427A, has now set the record...
View ArticleIs The Kepler Space Telescope Entering Its Last Days?
A darling of NASA and of the general public, the Kepler Space Telescopes, dedictaed to looking at extra-solar planets, may be soon ending it’s run. A recent hardware failure on the Kepler has led...
View ArticleNASA Adds Instagram to its Arsenal of Social Media Accounts
NASA has always been enthusiastic about its social media presence, be it videos on YouTube, short updates on Twitter or live video feeds on Ustream. Beginning Friday, NASA has now taken Instagram to...
View ArticleNASA Reveals Stunning Photos of Sun’s Corona
NASA captured stunning images of the sun’s corona, the million degree atmosphere surrounding the sun, from a 16 megapixel telescope called the HI-C. The telescope was launched on a sub-orbital rocket...
View ArticleNASA’s Telescope Detects Strongest Hint Yet of Dark Matter Particles from...
NASA’s Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope has spotted something which should interest every physicist. Looking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, Fermi has unequivocally showed a bright gamma-ray glow....
View ArticleDiscovered: Liquid Water Beneath Surface of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Saturn’s moon Enceladus may have liquid water hidden away at its South Pole. Or so say NASA’s Cassini, the spacecraft dedicated to map out different aspects of the beautiful planet Saturn. Enceladus,...
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