Super Planet Crash: Educational Game for World Builders

Let the games begin! A new online educational resource allows the user to build their own planetary system, putting planets into orbit around a star and racking up points until they add a planet that destabilizes the whole system. The game is an offshoot of the...

House Members Issue Bi-Partisan Call for Human Exploration Strategy Using Space Launch System, Orion

A bi-partisan letter from 32 members of the U.S. House urges the White House to structure a “safe, focused and expeditious return of American astronauts to deep space exploration on an American rocket launched from American soil.” The lawmakers, led by...

One Year after Chelyabinsk: Action on Planetary Defense

It has been over a year since the space rock explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The February 15, 2013 event damaged thousands of houses and other structures, shattered windows, and injured many people due to broken glass due to the powerful atmospheric blast. That...