Alien Life? Radiation May Erase Mars, Europa Fossils
Jupiter’s ocean-harboring moon, Europa, as seen by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute The hunt for signs of alien life in the solar system may be much tougher than researchers had thought, thanks to the damaging effects of radiation. Two separate studies suggest that galactic radiation would quickly degrade biological material on the surface of […]
1st Kid-Built Mini Satellite Launches from Space Station (Video)
On May 16, the International Space Station launched the first miniature satellite, called a cubesat, designed and built by grade-schoolers . The STMSat-1 satellite launched to the space station on Dec. 6, 2015 . It was the culmination of a three-year-long project involving 400 students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade at St. Thomas More Cathedral […]
Humans In Mars Orbit By Late 2020s? – Lockheed Martin Concept Video
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Milky Way Glitters Over Arches National Park
Astrophotographer Manish Mamtani took this image of the Milky Way in April 2016 from Arches and Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Credit: Manish Mamtani Photography | www.manishmamtani.com Astrophotographer Manish Mamtani saw his first Milky Way on a spring trip to Utah four years ago. Since then, he’s traveled to the state every year to capture […]
Mystery Solved? Supermassive Black Holes Likely Born Big
Artist’s illustration of a supermassive black hole seed (main image). The lefthand inset shows a seed candidate imaged in X-ray light by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory; the righthand inset shows the same seed in optical light (center) as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Scuola Normale Superiore/Pacucci, F. et al, Optical: NASA/STScI; Illustration: […]
Galileo launch coverage
Full replay of the first part of the launch coverage of Europe’s thirteen and fourteen Galileo satellites To source
Euro Soyuz Rocket Launches 2 Galileo Satellites (Video)
PARIS—A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket on Tuesday (May 24) successfully placed two European Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites into medium-Earth orbit — the 13th and 14th in a series of 26 Galileo spacecraft, with more to come. Operating from Europe’s Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, the […]
Galileo liftoff replay
Europe’s 13th and 14th Galileo satellites lifted off by Soyuz on 08:48 GMT – watch replay here To source
Mystery Plumes: Did the Sun Bruise Mars?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In recent years, the Red Planet has been doing something quite weird and scientist are stumped. On a handful of occasions bizarre “plumes” have been observed protruding from Mars’ upper atmosphere. A 2012 event was spotted by amateur astronomers and the phenomenon persisted for several days. Even the Hubble Space Telescope has been […]
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Ancient Solar Superflare Suggests Risks for Mars Missions
A catastrophic superflare from the sun, like the one in the year 775, would put astronauts at risk for lethal doses of radiation, new research suggests. This 2012 coronal mass ejection resulted in a solar flare aimed away from Earth. Credit: Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA When a powerful “superflare” from the sun scoured the solar system more […]
NASA: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth
Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it. original
NASA Begins Launch Preparations for the First U.S. Asteroid Sampling Mission
NASA’s first spacecraft designed to return a piece of an asteroid to Earth arrived Friday at Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations for a September launch. To source