Curiosity completes a touch-and-go on SOL 108

                            NASA = Last week, Curiosity drove for the first time after spending several weeks in soil-scooping…

How would a discovery of life on Mars change us? We may know in a few weeks.

Findings by Mars Rover could change our place in the Universe. (Update 11/26/12 – KnowledgeOrb has learned that the announcement from NASA about SAM findings will be on 12/3/12) Recently NASA stated…

ESA members decide to increase investments in Space

In a  two-day Council meeting  in Naples, Italy. Ministers from ESA’s 20 member states and Canada today allocated €10 billion for ESA’s programs. They approved ESA’s level of resources for…

Rare Double Solar Prominence Eruptions 11/16/12

Video of the Two Prominence Eruptions The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period (Nov. 16, 2012). The action was captured in the…

Shuttle 747 transport leaves Dryden for final time

                  The iconic image original glide test of  Shuttle Enterprise as it floated away from the 747 almost forty years ago featured…

Bright Leonid Fireball November 13th 2012 Over Alabama

This video shows a very bright fireball over Alabama on Sunday, Nov. 18 at approximately 7:30 p.m. EST (6:30 p.m. CST). Southeastern cameras managed by NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office recorded…

Exciting News soon from Mars Rover said to be Historic….Evidence of Life?

Mars SAM instrument may have discovered “Something for the History Books.” (Update 11/26/12 – KnowledgeOrb has learned that the announcement from NASA about SAM findings will be on 12/3/12) According to an…

Space Weather ALERT from KnowledgeOrb.com 11/21/12

Issue Time: 2012 Nov 21 0728 UTC ALERT: Type II Radio Emission Begin Time: 2012 Nov 21 0654 UTC Estimated Velocity: 720 km/s NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be…