space

NASA Mission Named ‘Europa Clipper’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2017
NASA’s upcoming mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa now has a formal name: Europa Clipper.

By David Aragorn
NASA Considers Magnetic Shield to Help Mars Grow Its Atmosphere 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 9, 2017
NASA Planetary Science Division Director, Jim Green, says launching a magnetic shield could help warm Mars and possibly allow it to become habitable.

By David Aragorn
Some Active Process is Cracking Open These Faults on Mars. But What is it?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 9, 2017
A 2008 image showing a portion of the North Polar layered deposits with lines of very small pits on the surface of Mars.

By David Aragorn
Cosmic Deep Freeze!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 8, 2017
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Aboard the ISS Will Reshape Our Understanding of Matter and Gravity

By David Aragorn
NASA Is Letting You Download Its Software For Free 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 8, 2017
Turns out you don’t need to hack NASA or work for them in order to use their technology.

By David Aragorn
NASA Creating a New Spacecraft to Prevent Extinction-Level Earth-Bound Asteroid Impact 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2017
NASA is working to get a spacecraft to an asteroid before one strikes Earth.

By David Aragorn
Nearby Comet Has a Big Heart, Radar Reveals 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 6, 2017
A rare opportunity to study a comet using radar technology has yielded new measurements of this traveling space rock’s size, shape, geology and rotation rate.

By David Aragorn
NASA orbiter steers clear of Mars moon Phobos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 3, 2017
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars’ moon Phobos.

By David Aragorn
Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
It might sound trite to say that the Universe is full of mysteries. But it’s true.

By David Aragorn
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2017
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet.

By David Aragorn