A NASA scientist gives the latest update on Curiosity, including information that shows that the Red Planet doesn’t have the same atmosphere it used to. Experiments show that the atmosphere used to be much thicker...
Wow! An amazing experiment by an amateur to send a model glider to the edge of space and control it back down to Earth. The video is amazing. Well done guys!
Antares finally lifts off after delays from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility. Also an update from NASA and Kepler’s discovery of more ‘Earth’ like planets.
The latest update from NASA including an update on the postponed launch of the Antares rocket and the Orion capsule. The Antares liftoff was again postponed yesterday due to high winds.
Named in 2002 in honour of NASA’s administrator during the Apollo programme, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission is a collaborative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency...
A new game-changing instrument, called MicroSpec, is a far-infrared spectrometer that will be 10,000 times more sensitive and infinitely smaller than it’s predecessor. Normally the size of an office desk, this far-infrared spectrometer can...
NASA hosted a press briefing on April 16 to discuss the launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket. Since the conference the scheduled date of test launch has been delayed due to technical issues....
A good introduction to gamma rays. What we call “light” is actually just a tiny fraction of the broad range of radiation on the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. The entire span stretches from very-low-energy radio waves...
Earths magnetic field and the Ozone layer protects us from most cosmic and solar radiation. But what happens to human bodies when they travel outside low earth orbit? Once astronauts leave the safety of...
Putin announces plans to invest over $50b over the next 7 years in space exploration. The translation of the speech is below the second video. httpv://youtu.be/9AiMqlmtGn0 “Dear colleagues, let me wish you a great...
President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA is a $17.7 billion investment in space exploration. An interesting video that looks at where this budget will be spent. The space budget is far...
An animation of NASA’s plans to capture an asteroid and move it into the Moon’s orbit. This plan was recently confirmed by the Obama administration and initial funding has been approved. The goals...
Here is the latest from NASA, including news of the new Antares rocket launcher, the experimental results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the ISS and its mission to detect ‘dark matter’. Also includes...
NASA is set to launch two missions and has enlisted help from MIT and Google. One project involves the discovery of exoplanets and the other will be analysing matter found in neutrostars.
President Obama has set aside $100m to kick start a programme that will ‘losoo’ a small asteroid and bring it close to the Moon for further examination. The purpose is to examine it to...
There has been recent speculation that ‘Dark Matter’ has been found but nothing official. Dark Matter is an illusive form of matter which is said to make up much more mass than all of...
Star Trek wouldn’t be Star Trek without a method to cross the vast distances in space. The Star Trek solution was the ‘warp’ drive, a system to warp space that allows you to travel...
Small satellites are being used for all sorts of extra terrestrial work. But rather than reinventing the wheel, NASA is managing to use off the shelf components to help engineer these satellites. Is this...
