(Source NASA) – Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to…
Private Manned Mars Missions by 2023 Realistic?
There have been some recent movement in the private sector involving manned missions to Mars. One called Inspiration Mars plans…
Very Cool Picture of Northern Lights from ISS
(NASA) This striking aurora image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass…
Communications lost, NASA Deep Impact Mission ended
Last month controllers lost contact with NASA’s Deep Impact mission, several weeks were spent trying to uplink commands to reactivate…
Hubble Finds Largest Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter
(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees…
JAXA Launches New Rocket Epsilon-1
JAXA launched a new rocket called the Epsilon Launch Vehicle (Epsilon-1) on September 14th 2014 at 14:00jst. This was the…
Al Gore’s Pet Satellite Lives Again in DSCOVR
Sometimes you just have to laugh at things our government does. I remember hearing about what was jokingly called “GoreSat”…
Voyager 1 enters interstellar space, what does it mean to us?
It is official, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36 years ago, has exited our solar system…