March 18th, 2015
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is taking a look at intriguing, eye-catching features on the Red Planet. Images relayed to date suggest they are vein fracture fills – fractures filled with minerals that precipitated from solution, according to Mars researcher, James Rice. Curiosity was launched in November 2011, landing on Mars in August 2012. […]
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas – You would think the battered Moon doesn’t need one more crater. But thanks to data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, a massive crater has been found, provisionally named the crater Earhart after the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. A team from Purdue University has been testing a new […]
A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by citizen scientists and amateur astronomers. If you want to take part in the search to help protect Earth from threatening asteroid impacts an application is now available that enables everyone, everywhere, […]
NASA’s Curiosity Rover is trekking on a path toward higher layers of Mount Sharp, a route that takes it first through a valley called “Artist’s Drive,” heading southwestward from Pahrump Hills. Curiosity’s drill has used a combination of rotary and percussion action to collect samples from six rock targets since the rover landed inside Gale […]
In a March 12 news briefing, NASA and Bigelow Aerospace detailed future use of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM. NASA officials viewed the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module at Bigelow’s facility in Las Vegas prior to its sendoff to Florida for launch later this year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. In its packed […]
The European Space Agency is on the lookout for private partnerships to explore the Moon and Mars. ESA has issued a Call for Ideas to assess how companies could join forces with then in establishing “novel” partnerships. “Private-sector partners are welcome to join ESA in its space exploration strategy. Join us to explore beyond Earth’s […]
Earlier today U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, held a hearing with NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden in the Space, Science, and Competitiveness Subcommittee to examine the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget request for NASA. “As we begin the process of putting a roadmap together for the future of NASA there is one vital question that […]
China booster builders are slated to augment their Long March family of launchers this year and in 2016. According to Chinese news services, the country will soon fly their Long March 6 – likely in the middle of this year. Additionally, the Long March 7 and China’s Long March 5 are to make their first […]
Student-led looks at performing a makeover of Mars – called terraforming – have blueprinted some provocative ideas for the Red Planet. Four University of Leicester physics students in the UK have examined the possibility of terraforming Mars by polluting its atmosphere – burning copious amounts of coal to create enough carbon dioxide to alter […]
The wraps are coming off the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) slated for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. Space entrepreneur, Robert Bigelow, is holding a major media event at his Bigelow Aerospace’s North Las Vegas facility this Thursday, March 12. The BEAM is being displayed before it’s shipped to NASA’s […]
