Jun 4, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, European Space Agency, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Space Shuttle, Why Space
Though aging, the 23-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has a new assignment in the search for planets circling other stars. In October 2014 and February 2016, Hubble will take aim at Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun. Previous attempts to find planets...
May 16, 2013 | Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, Why Space
NASA’s four year Kepler mission to search thousands of stars in the Milky Way galaxy for sun-like stars with planets that resemble the Earth has encountered a serious technical problem. A second of the four rapidly spinning internal “reaction...
Apr 21, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Education, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
Three NASA shuttle-era astronauts, two of them women, were inducted into the U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Those honored in ceremonies at the Hall, close to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., included Eileen Collins, the first woman...
Apr 20, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
The Hubble Space Telescope, a successful collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, will mark its 23rd anniversary in Earth orbit on Wednesday, April 24th. In celebration the partnership, along with the Space Telescope Science Institute and other...
Apr 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Research
President Obama seeks steady NASA budgets of $17.7 billion through 2018 in the funding request he presented to Congress on Wednesday, enough to start the space agency on an ambitious mission to identify and maneuver an asteroid into lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts...
Mar 22, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
The European Space Agency’s Planck mission is revealing new details about the early universe, prompting scientists to revise estimates for the age, makeup, material consistency and expansion of the cosmos following the Big Bang. The European space telescope was...
Mar 10, 2013 | European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Space Shuttle, Uncategorized
Astronomers appear closer to solving a celestial puzzle with the help of multiple space telescopes and some dogged data gathering. The enigma involves an aging star, Methuselah, dated at 14.5 billion years old, plus or minus 800 million years. At that age, Methuselah...
Dec 24, 2012 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
Here are two celestial stocking stuffers for the mind and for those still shopping – just in time for the holidays and new year! NASA has issued two new e-books, one on the Hubble Space Telescope, the other on the still-to-be-launched, next-generation space...
Nov 25, 2012 | Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
Astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope and a natural consequence of large scale gravity, have imaged the most distant galaxy identified so far. Measured at just 600 light years across, quite small in cosmic terms, MACS0647-JD was imaged as it was just 420...
Nov 2, 2012 | Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
Under brilliant blue Florida skies, Atlantis, the last of NASA’s shuttle orbiters to leave the Kennedy Space Center nest, made its way Friday to the nearby Kennedy Visitor Center Complex. There, it will star in an inspirational $100 million public exhibit...