Apr 29, 2010 | Photo Feature
This artist’s animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Asteroids are chunks of rock from “failed” planets, which never managed to coalesce into full-sized planets. Asteroid belts can be...
Apr 28, 2010 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education, Exploration, Our Solar System, Planet Earth
Source: USA Today Pandora, for the ancient Greeks, was a problem, popping open a pithos vase filled with all the ills of mankind. But thanks to the movie Avatar, Pandora offers a solution to one problem — what to call any hypothetically habitable moons orbiting one of...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA
Source: National Geographic, Breaking Orbit blog It might not be in the stars for humans to return to the moon anytime soon. But NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched last year in part to scout locations for a moon base, is proving that there’s...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, International Space Station, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Source: Network World, Layer 8 NASA is looking for a few good experiments to run in space. The space agency this week said it was seeking research ideas from private entities to want to do research on board the International Space Station. NASA said it was looking to...
Apr 28, 2010 | Blog, Exploration, NASA
Source: The Orlando Sentinel Now that NASA has had to push the planned launch date for space shuttle Endeavour on STS-134 to no earlier than November, an interesting phenomenon could take place. The commander of STS-134 is Mark Kelly, pictured left. Mark Kelly’s...