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.
A look at some of the best views of Earth from space in 2012. Includes computer models and time lapses.
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...
An introduction to black holes and how the Hubble is being used to study them. One of Hubble’s main objectives was the identification of giant black holes.
A cool simulation. I believe the scalings are correct however some of the other planets moons may be on collision course with Earth though. And ofcourse the gravitational equations would probably mean that these...
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...
Comet ISON may be the most dazzling sight we have ever seen in the heavens for many years. The comet will appear in evening twilight through December 2013. The comet will swing past Earth...
Information on Earths largest airborne observatory capable of observing features that Earth bound telescopes can’t.
NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy and his Expedition 35/36 crewmates, lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 28, U.S. time. The expedited flight had the crew arriving at the ISS even...
Some scientists see plasma as a future energy source. Since the beginning of technology we have relied on the same method to carry payloads into orbit. But these rockets are not very efficient. Present...
IBEX, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explore, has captured the best and most complete picture yet of what lies beyond the boundary of our solar system. The new data give indications about how and where our...
There is a possibility that a comet may strike Mars next year (1 in 200o chance!). says NASA. The energy in this comet is believed to be 80 times more powerful than the meeorite...
Video footage of the Space Dragon X spacecraft disengaging from the ISS and returning back to Earth. The latest Dragon mission arrived at the ISS on March 3rd with fresh supplies. Meanwhile a new...
NASA is warning the US government that our current only defence against a city killer meteorite is to ‘pray’. NASA has so far been unable to obtain funds for a new meteor detecting satellite...
Over fifty years of space exploration has resulted in thousands of pieces of debris. Many thousands of pieces are being monitored as a collision can be fatal or catastrophic. There are plans being made...
