Nov 12, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
On the hunt for still undiscovered exoplanets? Take note that a research team has put together a set of directions, pointers to help find planets around other stars. Lowell Observatory astronomer Evgenya Shkolnik and her collaborators have examined new and existing...
Nov 10, 2012 | European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, International Space Station, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
Using a developmental version of a space Internet, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams commanded a robot on a mock planetary surface in Germany to move forward and take pictures with a laptop aboard the International Space Station. The Oct. 23 exercise was sponsored...
Oct 28, 2012 | Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space Research, Space Shuttle
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast Sunday afternoon, successfully restoring a U. S. cargo delivery and return capability to the International Space Station once shouldered by NASA’s long...
Oct 28, 2012 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
The most challenging large astronomical mirror ever made has been completed. The mirror – one of seven — will be part of the 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope that will explore planets around other stars and the formation of stars, galaxies and black holes in...
Oct 27, 2012 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Research, Space and Science, Space Research
There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create...
Oct 17, 2012 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Exploration, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun
Space technology can be as much about improving life on Earth as exploring new worlds. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid in space and a joint effort between NASA and automaker GM, has been living aboard the International Space Station for more than a year....
Oct 11, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research
Back in January 2005, the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe parachuted onto Saturn’s moon, Titan. Thanks to a detailed analysis over seven years later, researchers have pulled together what happened to the probe at touchdown. The analysis is providing clues as to...
Oct 10, 2012 | Canadian Space Agency, Commercial Space, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Space Research
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station hauled SpaceX’s Dragon re-supply craft aboard early Wednesday, successfully ending the outbound leg of the Hawthorne, Calif., based company’s first contracted re-supply mission to the orbiting...
Sep 28, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research, The Sun
Saturn’s moon Titan provides the best opportunity to study conditions very similar to Earth – in terms of climate, meteorology and astrobiology. That’s the observation from Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France. The scientist is presenting...
Sep 26, 2012 | Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space Research
U. S. space policy makers, armed with a new set of exploration options developed by NASA’s Mars Program Planning Group but constrained by little prospect for budget growth, will wrestle with some pretty ambitious goals: **Robotically acquire samples of...