Space Mashable Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:58:26 PM NASA posts image of ghostly blue objects, deep in the cosmos When a star is born, a chaotic light show ensues. NASA's long-lived Hubble Space Telescope captured vivid bright clumps moving through the cosmos at some 1,000 light years from Earth. The space agency called these objects clear 'smoking gun'
Space Broadly Saturday, February 16, 2019 11:18:05 PM Daily Horoscope: February 17, 2019 The moon enters Leo today.
Space Digital Trends Saturday, February 16, 2019 6:59:38 PM Descending at an angle could be key to landing heavier craft on Mars Landing on Mars is a challenge: The heavier the craft, the more difficult a safe landing becomes.Scientists propose using retropropulsion engines and angling the craft to create a pressure differential to land heavier crafts in the future. The post
Space Voice of America Saturday, February 16, 2019 4:49:26 AM Year in Space Put US Astronaut's Disease Defenses on Alert Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared with those of his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday. Scientists don't know if the changes were
Space Phys.org Friday, February 15, 2019 10:25:45 PM Farewell, Opportunity: Rover dies, but its hugely successful Mars mission is helping us design the next one NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars has been officially pronounced dead. Its amazingly successful mission lasted nearly 15 years, well beyond its initial three-month goal. Opportunity provided the first proof that water once existed on Mars and shaped
Space Phys.org Friday, February 15, 2019 10:21:30 PM A river of stars in the solar neighborhood Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at
Space Digital Trends Saturday, February 16, 2019 12:59:41 AM NASA’s MAVEN orbiter has a new job as a communication relay for Mars 2020 NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter has been collecting atmospheric readings but now is taking on a new job as a data relay satellite for the Mars 2020 mission that launches next year. The post NASA’s MAVEN orbiter has a
Space Phys.org Friday, February 15, 2019 10:07:27 PM Year in space put US astronaut's disease defenses on alert Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.
Space Mashable Friday, February 15, 2019 5:05:24 PM Watch a space harpoon impale a piece of space debris NASA tracks 500,000 chunks and bits of space junk as they hurtle around Earth. Some 20,000 of these objects are larger than a softball.To clean up the growing mess, scientists at the University of Surrey have previously tested a net to catch chunks
Space Phys.org Friday, February 15, 2019 2:57:29 PM Protecting human heritage on the moon: Don't let 'one small step' become one giant mistake Why did the hominin cross the plain? We may never know. But anthropologists are pretty sure that a smattering of bare footprints preserved in volcanic ash in Laetoli, Tanzania bear witness to an evolutionary milestone. These small steps, taken
Space Gizmodo Friday, February 15, 2019 5:56:54 PM Anker's Best Portable Projector Is Bright, Sharp, and Cheaper Than Ever Anker’s Nebula Capsule mini projector gets all the hype, but if its standard definition resolution and 100 lumen brightness won’t cut it for your portable cinema needs, the newer Nebula Mars II is on sale for $390 today, the best price we’ve seen by
Space Phys.org Friday, February 15, 2019 10:51:01 AM NASA heading back to Moon soon, and this time to stay NASA is accelerating plans to return Americans to the Moon, and this time, the US space agency says it will be there to stay.
Space Voice of America Friday, February 15, 2019 11:49:41 AM Mars Opportunity Rover Ends Nearly 15 Years of Discovery The Mars Opportunity Rover landed on the Red Planet's surface in 2004 for a 90-day mission of exploration. More than 14 years later, NASA has finally closed the book on this tiny rover that wandered across Mars sending back troves of information.
Space CNET Friday, February 15, 2019 12:46:05 PM Scientists think Mars lake may be created by recent volcanic activity - CNET The dead, Red Planet may be more alive than we previously believed -- giving life a chance at surviving.
Space CNET Friday, February 15, 2019 12:51:24 AM NASA pushing hard to get back to the moon this year. Really - CNET Half a century after Apollo 11, the space agency is aiming to start establishing a permanent presence on the lunar surface as soon as possible.
Space Digital Trends Thursday, February 14, 2019 9:19:50 PM NASA’s ‘Refabricator’ lets astronauts recycle 3D-printed tools to make new ones The International Space Station just received a fancy new gadget in the form of a Refabricator, a machine capable of 3D printing using recycled plastic materials.Here's how it works. The post NASA’s ‘Refabricator’ lets astronauts recycle 3D-printed