Category Archives: Space

NASA 2013 Budget to be the lowest in four years.

NASA Budget to be proposed Monday On Capitol Hill Feb. 13, President Obama will ask for a $17.7 billion NASA’s 2013 budget sources said Friday. The proposal represents only a…

Hubble Telescope makes over one million observations

 This is an artist’s concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a “hot Jupiter” class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our sun. Hubble Space Telescope’smillionth science…

Phobos Grunt Mars Probe killed by a software glitch…maybe

The ambitious Russian Mars probe which was supposed to place a lander on Phobos was doomed by a software glitch say Russian officials. “a programming error which led to a…

Portrait of a Doomed Asteroid

Source NASA – A new study provides a possible explanation of mysterious X-ray flares detected by the Chandra K-ray Observatory for several years in the region of Sagittarius A*, or…

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Finds Old Mars Landers

  MRO HiRISE has taken 21,000 images in its life, recent images show older landers. (NASA) The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment…

New planet in habitable zone found, could harbor life!

New planet best example yet of planet in habitable zone. An International research team analyzed data from the European Southern Observatory about a star known as GJ 667C. The researchers…

First Samples of Interstellar Material Beyond Earths Solar System

Interstellar Wind Makeup NASA – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer , known as IBEX for short, methodically measures samples of the mysterious neighborhood beyond our home. IBEX scans the entire sky…

NASA Releases First Multi-Player Facebook Game

WASHINGTON — NASA has launched its first multi-player online game to test players’ knowledge of the space program. Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the…