Mars Rover Confirms First Drilled Martian Rock Sample
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another…
Kepler finds Moon sized planet
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System (Source NASA) – The Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around…
NASA releases radar images of asteroid DA14 close approach
This 73-frame movie of asteroid 2012 DA14 was generated from data obtained by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on the night of Feb. 15 to 16, 2013. The observations were…
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 PHL maintains the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) in which exoplanets…
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) estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the…
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 Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain, shows the passage of…
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 Stennis Space Center. The 35-second test continued progress in development…
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 atmosphere above Russia people are still in shock over this…
