Take a Look! New Mars Atlas Spotlights Impact Craters
When you look up at the Earth’s moon – it’s obvious that it was on the receiving end of impacting objects. New research is also showing that Mars too is a beaten up and battered world. Here’s the count, according to scientists identifying impact craters on the red...It’s Crowded Out There! Life-Bearing Earth-size Planets – New Study
Since 1995, when the first extrasolar planet was reported, the number of detections has increased to roughly 750 newly found worlds. All of these planets orbit stars. But a very few, if any, have been deemed potential candidates for life. New work by an international...NASA Hands Discovery to the Air and Space Museum
Orbiter Discovery now belongs to the Smithsonian Institution’s Air and Space Museum and the American people. The spacecraft’s official transfer from NASA to the famed museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport in...Kepler, Hubble, Seven Others Get NASA’s Okay to Keep on Searching
NASA has extended nine of the agency’s astrophysics missions – programs like Kepler and Hubble that probe the cosmos in search of answers to some of the our most profound questions – how did the universe originate, how did it evolve, are there other planets like the...Celestial Salute to U.S. Senator Mikulski: Supernova, Astronomy Archive
Talk about senatorial splendor! You couldn’t do any better given a new honor that recognizes United States Senator from Maryland, Barbara A. Mikulski. One of the world’s largest astronomy archives has been named in her honor. Called MAST, for the Barbara A....Hubble’s Hidden Treasures
Ever find yourself outside on a clear night, looking out at the cosmos wondering what it would be like to fly really close to the stars? Maybe, someday. But a contest involving the Hubble Space Telescope, a 22-year-old collaboration between NASA and the...Space Station Detector Sifts the Cosmic Fabric at an Unexpected Clip
Perched on the outside of the sprawling International Space Station, the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is sifting through cosmic ray particles at twice the rate eager physicists estimated when the “big science” experiment was launched last...U. S. Secretary of State: Global Powers in Need of Space Code of Conduct
Secretary of State Hilliary Rodham Clinton pledged a new U. S.-led effort on Tuesday to develop an international space code of conduct to foster peaceful and productive uses of outer space. The initative — an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space...NASA Space Telescopes Star at Astronomy Conference
A collection of NASA’s best known space observatories, often working in collaboration with new generations of powerful ground-based telescopes, starred this week in a series of headline grabbing discoveries involving galaxy clusters, black holes, stellar...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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