Jul 24, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
Though more than three million miles distant, Comet ISON, also known as the “soda pop” comet, is putting on quite a show for the planet’s best equipped observatories. The active comet is headed heads towards a close encounter with the sun in late...
Jul 11, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Roscosmos, Space and Science
NASA is refining plans for a second SUV-sized Curiosity rover mission to Mars in 2020 that would search for evidence of past biological activity, a potential international enterprise whose results may address the prospects for life elsewhere in the solar system and...
Jun 9, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Book Reviews, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
The Space Book: From the Beginning to the End of Time, 250 Milestones in the History of Space & Astronomy by Jim Bell; Sterling Publishing Co. Inc; New York, New York; (hard cover) $29.95; May 2013. This elegant, eye-catching book offers stunning photographs and...
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...
Apr 6, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon
President Obama will likely seek Congressional endorsement for missions to robotically capture an asteroid and park the 500 ton space rock in a stable lunar orbit, where U. S. astronauts could pay a visit as early as 2021, according to U. S. Sen. Bill Nelson, of...
Mar 6, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Those wispy worlds of ice know as comets may be linked to kick-starting life on Earth. Experiments by chemists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii, Manoa, suggest that conditions in space are capable of creating complex dipeptides...
Mar 2, 2013 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The first of this year’s two potential bright comets is visible for those who can see low on the western horizon. Officially called comet 2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), this comet is expected to first become viewable March 8 in the northern hemisphere by looking (with a set of...
Feb 18, 2013 | Asteroid Exploration, Benefits of Space Exploration, Comets, Exploration, International Cooperation, Legislative Activity, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Research
The skies have spoken, and their message was one of concern. Early Friday, while people around the world watched and waited for an asteroid half the size of a football field, 2012 DA14, to skim by the Earth between the orbits of communications and navigational...
Jan 22, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
Near-Earth Objects – Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans; Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; $24.95; 2013. This is a superb book that brings the reader up-to-speed on those menacing denizens of the deep – Near Earth Objects, or...
Sep 24, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Comets, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
There is a high probability that life came to Earth — or spread from Earth to other planets — during the Solar System’s infancy. New research on this prospect has been presented at the now being held European Planetary Sciences Congress. The findings provide the...