Oct 11, 2011 | European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
The European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft has detected a high altitude ozone layer surrounding the bright planet, a characteristic it shares with the Earth and Mars. The finding, reported by ESA, earlier this month, could help...
Aug 23, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Commercial Space, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun
NASA will invest $175 million in a trio of new technology demonstration flights that promise to hasten much more capable missions of deep space exploration by humans as well as robots. The demo flights, which the space agency intends to undertake in 2015 and 2016,...
Aug 19, 2011 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Sun
Scientists making use of NASA’s STEREO spacecraft have created the first detailed images of a three-day journey by solar wind that slams into the Earth at speeds up to a million miles per hour. Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Solar...
Jul 23, 2011 | Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Mars, Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, Planet Earth, The Moon, The Sun
The crew of NASA’s final shuttle mission completed the last leg of their mission on Friday, as they returned to Houston, where hundreds from the Texas city welcomed them back as colleagues and neighbors. Neither the rush hour traffic nor the high heat seemed...
Jul 1, 2011 | Asteroid Exploration, Commercial Space, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Roscosmos, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun
NASA’s final shuttle flight represents a milestone that has many who work at the space agency committed to its success, though already nostalgic about the retiring orbiters and hopeful the passage will lead the nation to embark on bold new ventures. Poised at...
Jun 25, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, The Moon, The Sun
It has been a long and loopy flight for two spacecraft. Now, after one and a half years and making more than 90 orbit maneuvers, along with numerous gravitational boosts, NASA’s ARTEMIS spacecraft have been repurposed – leaving orbit around Earth to arrive at their...
Jun 9, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Voyager Spacecraft Data: New Findings. Credit: NASA/JPL A new computer model of the solar system based on data gathered by NASA’s enduring Voyager space probes indicates that the edge of the solar system — the heliosheath — is not smooth. Rather, it is...
May 8, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft circling the planet Mercury has chalked up its 100th orbit. That milestone...
Apr 19, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been used to monitor the birth of a sunspot over a period of eight hours. Researchers at the University of Central Lancashire made use of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to observe the growth of the sunspot. How sunspots...
Mar 29, 2011 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, The Sun
Credit: Jason Rowe – NASA/Kepler Mission NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has been on the prowl since 2009, busily sweeping space with a special photometer. That high-tech device continuously monitors the brightness of over 145,000 main sequence stars in a fixed field...