This 73-frame movie of asteroid 2012 DA14 was generated from data obtained by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on the…
Month: February 2013
Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) new search for Earths
A New Approach to Search for Earth-like Worlds The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is now searching for Earth-like worlds. The…
Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door
(Source – NASA) Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)…
Asteroid DA14 Seen as it departs Earths Orbit
Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain This set of images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the…
SLS J2X Engine undergoes further testing
NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at…
Russian Meteor aftermath, Cleanup begins, NASA increases size estimate
Experts describe it as a “Small” object. The day after what NASA describes as a “small” meteor exploded in the…
Over 1000 Hurt by Meteor over Russia, Not related to Asteroid DA14
Today a meteor streaked through the skies above Russia’s Urals region and exploded with a flash and boom that shattered…
Curiosity’s First Sample Drilling
At the center of this image from NASA’s Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called “John Klein” where…
