'The Martian' Wants to Mail You a Potato: Movie Offers Stamped Spuds
20th Century Fox is inviting fans of “The Martian” to mail a potato home (or to a friend) with Mark Watney stamps.Credit: 20th Century Fox/collectSPACE.com It may seem strange at first, but by the time you get done watching “The Martian,” the new movie from director Ridley Scott, you will understand why 20th Century Fox […]
Charon in Enhanced Color
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are processed to best highlight the variation of surface properties. To source
Are Hot 'Super-Earths' The Remains Of 'Warm Neptunes?' | Video
Hubble Space Telescope observations of the Neptune-sized planet GJ 436b show that its extremely close host star is boiling the planet’s atmosphere away, leaving an Earth-sized rocky core, much like ‘our’ Neptune. Astronomers believe other detected hot Super-Earths could be the remains of such former ‘Warm Neptunes.’ Credit: NASA To source
'Moonspike' Kickstarter Project Aims to Crowdfund Rocket to the Moon
A team of rocketeers launched an out-of-this-world Kickstarter campaign today (Oct. 1) to raise $1 million for “Moonspike” – an ambitious project to launch the first crowdfunded rocket to the moon. The Moonspike project aims to launch a small titanium payload carrying photos and videos from project backers into space, and ultimately crash it into […]
Want To Kickstart A Moon Rocket? | 'Moonspike' Marketing Video
A small team of rocket engineers pledge to construct a 3-stage, 22 ton vehicle to carry ‘your’ images, video and other digital media to the moon. Funders will have open access insight onto every phase of the project’s development. (Full Story) [Space.com neither endorses nor denounces this project.] Credit: Moonspike To source
Making 'The Martian': Exclusive Interview with Director Sir Ridley Scott
The noted cinema director developed a love of the lonely desert planet – once he got over being terrified of “The Martian” script.Credit: Twentieth Century Fox + Dave Brody Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers on the new space epic “The Martian.” [So consider yourself warned. If anyone is going to spoil “The Martian” for […]
Listening for Alien Life: Could New Tech Detect Microbe Movements?
Inventor Dan Slater uses remote acoustic sensor (RAS) technology during a test-firing of the five-segment rocket motor headed for use on NASA’s Space Launch System booster.Credit: Sandy Slater PASADENA, California — Spacecraft may one day be able to detect alien life by listening to the sounds microbes make. Scientists are testing a new microphone technology […]
NASA Eyeing Venus, Asteroids for Next Low-Cost Robotic Mission
Artist’s concept of the VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA’s Discovery Program that would launch by the end of 2021.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is zeroing in on Venus and asteroids as potential targets for its next low-cost robotic exploration mission or missions, which will launch by the […]
[Gender Equality Office] Updated the Summary of Childcare Support System provided by JAXA
Support systems provided by JAXA ■ Hoshinoko Nursery School Hoshinoko Nursery School is an employer-provided nursery school opened in the Tsukuba Space Center in April 2012 as part of the support provided to JAXA employees that would ensure the healthy balance between meeting the demands of work and childcare. Hoshinoko Nursery School has a maximum […]
[Gender Equality Office] Added a new schedule of networking
Opportunities for networking and interactions between female researchers and female engineers are highly useful for both groups to share tips related to their personal and professional lives. Through these events, they could also enrich their understanding of the trends in research development and in society, and thereby address issues not only in their common sector, […]
Surviving 'The Martian': How to Stay Alive on Mars (Infographic)
By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist | September 30, 2015 05:46pm ET The fictional Ares 3 mission in Andy Weir’s novel “The Martian” is based on an actual NASA plan for exploration of the Red Planet. When he is stranded after his astronaut team leaves without him, Mark Watney must struggle to survive. Matt Damon stars […]
New Maps of Ceres Highlight Mysterious Bright Spots, Giant Mountain
A color-coded topographic map shows Occator crater on Ceres. Image released Sept. 30, 2015.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA New maps of Ceres show the dwarf planet’s mysterious bright spots and huge, pyramid-shaped mountain in a new light. The new maps of Ceres come courtesy of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the heavily cratered dwarf planet since March. […]
'The Martian' Stars Ask Real Astronauts About Life in Space (Video)
Real NASA astronauts just dropped a little spaceflight knowledge on the stars of the upcoming sci-fi film “The Martian,” from 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and other actors from “The Martian” — as well as director Ridley Scott — got a chance to ask a few questions of Scott Kelly […]