NASA

Second Spacewalk of 2017 Successfully Complete 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2017
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 12:20 p.m. EST.

By David Aragorn
NASA Releases New, Detailed Greenland Glacier Data 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 14, 2017
NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission has released preliminary data on the heights of Greenland coastal glaciers from its first airborne campaign in March 2016.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Captures ‘Shadow Play’ Caused by Possible Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They’re so small and faint that it’s hard to spot them. But a possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by a shadow that is sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding a young star.

By David Aragorn
Basking in Light 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
Sunlight truly has come to Saturn’s north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from late 2016, feeble though the light may be at Saturn’s distant domain in the solar system.

By David Aragorn
NASA sets sights on asteroid exploration 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2017
Agency plans to launch a mission to visit the Trojan asteroids in 2021, and one to the metallic asteroid Psyche in 2023.

By David Aragorn
NASA plan for housing astronauts on Mars borrows from Eskimos 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 7, 2017
NASA’s latest plan: ‘Mars Ice Home’ could be the key to providing astronauts with a place to stay for months on end while living on the Red Planet.

By David Aragorn
Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2017
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks.

By David Aragorn
Prometheus Popping 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2016
Saturn’s potato-shaped moon Prometheus is shown in this close-up from Cassini.

By David Aragorn
Check Out NASA’s Asteroid-Catching Robot Arms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2016
NASA to launch the robotic portion of its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) in 2021. This will be the first mission to visit and collect a multi-ton sample from a large near-Earth asteroid. The collected sample will be used in a demonstration of enhanced gravity tractor asteroid deflection.

By David Aragorn
NEOWISE mission spies one comet, maybe two 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2016
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. Another—definitely a comet—might be seen with binoculars through next week.

By David Aragorn