Strange Goings On Regarding Comet ISON!?
Is there some sort of coverup going on regarding comet ISON? When ISON was discovered it was being hailed as the Comet of the millenium. Could it be comet of the millenium in more...
Monthly Archive: April 2013
More On The Two New Planetary Systems Found By Kepler
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might...
Testing NASA’s New Robot
In this NASA video segment learn about the mobile robot NASA plans to use for future missions to Mars and the Moon. The new rover being tested has been dubbed ATHLETE ( the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed...
Earth Day 2013 – NASA
Here is the latest update from all the NASA facilities and projects. It also includes NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver tour of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission control room and was briefed on Goddard Earth...
Curiosity Update – 17th April 2013
A NASA scientist gives the latest update on Curiosity, including information that shows that the Red Planet doesn’t have the same atmosphere it used to. Experiments show that the atmosphere used to be much thicker...
Lunar Lander Mission – ESA
A simulation of the Lunar Lander Mission proposed by ESA. The mission was due for liftoff around 2017 but in late 2012 the mission was put on hold. Lunar Lander is a robotic explorer...
To Space and Back!
Wow! An amazing experiment by an amateur to send a model glider to the edge of space and control it back down to Earth. The video is amazing. Well done guys!
New Earth-Like Planets Discovered by NASA’s Kepler
Kepler finds new Earth like planets in the habitable zone of their Sun. This means the it is possible for liquid water to exist on the planets. Which means that life as we know...
Antares Launches
Antares finally lifts off after delays from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility. Also an update from NASA and Kepler’s discovery of more ‘Earth’ like planets.
Antares And NASA Updates
The latest update from NASA including an update on the postponed launch of the Antares rocket and the Orion capsule. The Antares liftoff was again postponed yesterday due to high winds.
Hubble’s Successor – The James Webb Space Telescope
Named in 2002 in honour of NASA’s administrator during the Apollo programme, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission is a collaborative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency...
Spectrometer On A Chip
A new game-changing instrument, called MicroSpec, is a far-infrared spectrometer that will be 10,000 times more sensitive and infinitely smaller than it’s predecessor. Normally the size of an office desk, this far-infrared spectrometer can...
NASA Briefs Media on Antares Launch Status
NASA hosted a press briefing on April 16 to discuss the launch of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket. Since the conference the scheduled date of test launch has been delayed due to technical issues....
What Are Gamma Rays
A good introduction to gamma rays. What we call “light” is actually just a tiny fraction of the broad range of radiation on the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. The entire span stretches from very-low-energy radio waves...
Antimatter Detected By ISS
Antimatter positron particles have been detected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on board the space station. Scientists think that antimatter may be produced by ‘dark matter’ or by ‘pulsars’.
Radiation And Humans In Space
Earths magnetic field and the Ozone layer protects us from most cosmic and solar radiation. But what happens to human bodies when they travel outside low earth orbit? Once astronauts leave the safety of...
