December 30, 2009 – 3:40 pm
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 [...]
October 22, 2009 – 10:19 am
Greenies may find this news interesting. Astronomers using European Southern Observatory telescopes have announced that they have discovered 32 more planets, outside of our solar system. This brings the number of planets to more than 400. What is fascinating is that this gives evidence to theorists who say that there could be life outside of [...]
October 13, 2009 – 4:23 pm
Exactly how much oxygen is present in Europa’s oceans? Wait a minute, let’s backtrack here.
What is Europa?
Europa is the sixth moon of Jupiter, with some tantalizing characteristics that make it very interesting for NASA and us.
Its atmosphere is mostly oxygen, which actually isn’t all that healthy for us, since our atmosphere is actually three [...]
September 25, 2009 – 2:46 pm
There is now “unambiguous evidence” of water on the moon. Can the moon support life now? Heh, not really. I mean, try breathing on the thing. It doesn’t work too well.
But never mind that. The details of the findings, which will be published in tomorrow’s issue of Science, follow on the heels of evidence [...]
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 [...]
November 23, 2008 – 9:41 am
At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos — with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids — got built this way.
November 19, 2008 – 1:57 pm
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 [...]
