First, man-kind was bedazzled to walk on the moon. Now, we could be flying on the sun; on the sun’s energy, that is. Think I’m crazy? Well, let me explain:
It simply does not make reasonable business sense, physics sense, or otherwise, to try and fly an airplane on solar power.
Not yet, anyhow.
With the [...]
NASA decided to give its Cassini spacecraft mission a 6 ½-year life extension to continue exploring Saturn and its moons.
Cassini was launched in 1997 and first arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flying by Earth, Venus and Jupiter. It carried the Huygens probe on board, which it sent to the surface of the moon Titan [...]
Anthony Watts runs a Web site that has become the most popular portal for climate news and opinions of interest to people aiming to rebut insistent claims that humans are poised to disrupt the climate. James E. Hansen of
NASA has long been the most prominent scientist advocating sharp and prompt cuts in emissions of [...]
Russia says that it is considering sending a spacecraft to knock a large asteroid off of its path and keep it from colliding with Earth.
Famous Russian Rocket scientist, Dr. Professor Anatoly Perminov, said the space agency will hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis, and it plans to invite NASA, the [...]
News from the final frontier:
According to the US Space Agency, a significant amount of frozen water has been found on the moon, proving the $79 million LCROSS mission successful. Hoorah! Chalk one up for team science…
Here’s How LCROSS Worked:
NASA sent an unmanned craft smashing into the lunar surface. It crashed into the Cabeus crater, located [...]
It’s been talked about and studied by astronomers and physicists for years. A number of Hollywood films have been made on the subject and the potential destruction that would happen should a mega-sized chunk of space rock, otherwise known as an asteroid, should ever collide with the earth. And theories are still coming out as [...]
Two asteroids flew by Earth this past month, a rare statistical coincidence, as far as we know.
What’s worse than the dangerous statistics is the fact that these space monsters weren’t detected much in advance, leaving humanity unable to defend itself had these massive rocks been heading our way.
Ninety bathtub toys were hurled into a drainage hole on the Greenland ice in September – an experiment to see how melt waters find their way to the base of the ice sheet.
It was hoped the ducks would flow along subglacial channels and eventually pop out into the sea. They may still, but nothing has [...]
Once in a while you hear about these kind of news that just makes you wonder. Is there anybody out there? Well this is a good picture of the unexplained Aurora over Saturn. Courtesy of NASA
Infrared images by the robotic Cassini spacecraft of the north pole of Saturn have uncovered aurora unlike any other seen [...]
So when’s the next robotic mission to the Moon set to go?
The answer: April 24, 2009.
The name: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is the first mission in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. The LRO objectives are to [...]
