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This coming May 31, an asteroid said to be roughly 9 times the size of Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship is expected to fly by our planet.
Scientists working with NASA wish to stress that, regardless of its impressive size, the space rock does not constitute a threat to either our planet or the moon.
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18 May 2013
01:43 GMT |
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The future of the Kepler space satellite, which has been looking for alien planets for the past few years (quite successfully, too), is in peril as another reaction wheel has malfunctioned. The satellite now only has two working wheels out of four. It needs three to be able to position itself. One wheel malfunctio... |
16 May 2013
08:39 GMT |
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Google is launching a quantum computing lab, the first of its kind for Google and one of the first from a commercial entity rather than an academic one. Google is teaming up with the NASA Ames Research Center to tackle this difficult task. Google won't be building the quantum computer itself, but rather it'... |
16 May 2013
07:39 GMT |
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The stunning picture above shows several phytoplankton blooms as seen from space, and was made available to the public by the NASA Earth Observatory.
According to Live Science, the blooms appeared just off the coast of France, in the Bay of Biscay.
By the looks of it, it was the increase in local temperatures tha... |
14 May 2013
03:50 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie, currently working on Destiny, says that it has a working relationship with NASA, the American agency in charge of space exploration, although it’s not clear what kind of information the two companies are exchanging.
The team answers a question from fans by saying, “We don&rsq... |
14 May 2013
03:01 GMT |
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Now that Curiosity is back in action, the team has been scouring for a new place to drill and recover samples which will tell us more about Mars' current makeup and its past.
Curiosity has already retrieved a rock sample and made some intriguing discoveries, and now a second location has been chosen.
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10 May 2013
09:52 GMT |
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The Curiosity Mars rover has been sitting idly by for almost a month now, as the sun blocked direct communication from Earth to Mars. But now that communication is back up, Curiosity is back to work and will soon be embarking on a long journey, the longest to date, to get to her final destination at the base of Mou... |
8 May 2013
13:11 GMT |
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More and more entities are getting rid of Windows and are adopting Linux. It’s time now for NASA and ISS to take this important step.
According to the Linux Foundation, who is helping NASA with the transition from one operating system to another, the process is well underway.
“We migrated key functions ... |
7 May 2013
19:51 GMT |
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Back in March, US Congressman Frank Wolf warned of a serious security violation at NASA’s Langley Research Center. NASA had contracted companies that hired Chinese nationals and some feared that those individuals might try to steal classified information and take it back to China.
A few days later, Bo Jiang, o... |
3 May 2013
08:37 GMT |
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On May 1, NASA announced that it was to send its newest rover to Greenland and use it to collect information concerning the ice sheets in this part of the world.
The rover's mission is planned to debut this May 3 and come to an end by June 8.
Throughout this period, the rover is to try to figure out both how... |
3 May 2013
04:20 GMT |
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NASA has reestablished contact with the two rovers and the two orbiters it has on and around Mars. Because of a solar conjunction, two-way communications were blocked for a period in April.
During that time, the ground teams had no way of checking up on the rovers and orbiters or of retrieving info or sending out c... |
2 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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9-year-old Michael Puzio from North Carolina has just become the first kid to name a space rock. The name he chose for the asteroid, i.e. Bennu (pronounced ben-oo) used to belong to an Egyptian god more often than not depicted by a gray heron.
The asteroid named by Michael Puzio is set to receive a visit as part of... |
2 May 2013
02:15 GMT |
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Space is big enough that you'd think the few satellites we've put into orbit have plenty of room to maneuver. That's mostly true, but because there are so many of them moving so fast, their paths occasionally cross.
And because space is so big, it's hard to know in advance exactly where any of th... |
1 May 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Thanks to the Cassini spacecraft, NASA scientists got the chance to gaze upon a giant storm that has been swirling around Saturn's north pole for years. The storm very much resembles a hurricane, whose eye measures a whopping 1,250 miles (roughly 2,000 kilometers) in diameter. The eye appears to have little or... |
30 April 2013
01:20 GMT |
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Even after decades of experience, things can and do still go wrong during space launches. The Russian Progress capsule, a resupply ship for the International Space Station, has quite a few flights under its belt.
But that didn't guarantee that its latest would go smoothly. Shortly after the spacecraft reached ... |
25 April 2013
10:30 GMT |
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has been staring at the sun, against its parents' advice no doubt, for three years now. Not only that, it's been doing it at different wavelengths at the same time.
We've learned a lot about the closest star to Earth since then and we've seen some spectacul... |
23 April 2013
09:10 GMT |
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The picture above was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope this past April 19.
By the looks of it, this stunning image of the Horsehead Nebula was snapped to mark Hubble's 23rd birthday.
Thus, the telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, and since then it has been spending its days glazing at the ski... |
20 April 2013
03:03 GMT |
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A team of researchers writing in the April 18 issue of the journal Science detail how NASA's Kepler space telescope managed to pin down a pair of exoplanets which appear to be the most Earth-like discovered up to this date.
The claim that these two planets are the most Earth-like ever found is based on the fac... |
19 April 2013
04:41 GMT |
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A description for the first ad for astronauts issued by NASA has been published on The National Archives Tumblr page.
As you can see, the post includes a memo on the position dated June 17, 1959. NASA was looking for astronauts for the Mercury mission.
The mission was the first one that entailed an American orbitin... |
11 April 2013
10:42 GMT |
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There have been rumors about a supposed NASA plan to capture an asteroid and drag it to a moon orbit. But now, that plan is becoming (almost) official, with one US senator confirming that a portion of NASA's budget for next year will be set aside for the mission. NASA is said to be spending $100 million, €... |
8 April 2013
10:52 GMT |
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Solar sails were once confined to Sci Fi stories, but they're becoming reality. There have been plenty of projects, at least on paper, but NASA plans to put one into space. In fact, it's setting sail next year. The new spacecraft will be the largest solar sail deployed to date.
Part of the Sunjammer missio... |
27 March 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Since last summer, there have been countless reports and suggestions that the Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system. So far though, scientists, while acknowledging the changes in the surrounding space, haven't yet decided that the probe is now in interstellar space.
Still, one recent research paper claimed ... |
21 March 2013
06:34 GMT |
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Curiosity, despite some setbacks, is making history again with its analysis of rock samples from Mars. Its internal laboratories showed that, at one point, conditions on Mars, at the very spot it's sitting at in Yellowknife Bay, were perfect for life, the type of life that thrives on Earth.
The water was pure, ... |
15 March 2013
15:51 GMT |
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In a statement made last week, US Congressman Frank Wolf, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, discussed a serious security violation discovered at the NASA Langley Research Center.
Wolf has been contacted by whistleblowers who have informed him that a Chinese national believe... |
12 March 2013
06:27 GMT |
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Astronomers are still scouring the universe and, since it's such a big place, they're going to be at it for a while. But you'd at least hope that our own backyard should be lacking in surprises at this point. Of course, that's never the case.
A team of astronomers has discovered not one but two n... |
11 March 2013
14:31 GMT |
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NASA is revealing its findings on the oldest star we know of, so old that it precedes the universe. Obviously, no star can be older than the universe, as far as we know, but the maths suggests that this ancient star is some 14.5 billion years old.
The Big Bang happened 13.77 billion years ago. But there's a ma... |
8 March 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Gravitational lensing can be a great tool for astronomers in peeking beyond what their instruments would normally be capable of. As light is distorted by gravity, large galaxies and clusters, can act as a lens, magnifying the view behind them.
Of course, this magnification comes at a cost as the image is frequently ... |
5 March 2013
16:21 GMT |
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Curiosity continues its quest of finding out whether Mars ever housed life by analyzing the first ever soil sample to be retrieved from below the surface of a planet, outside of Earth.
Curiosity used its drill for the first time recently to be able to retrieve material from inside a Martian rock. Now, its two main ... |
26 February 2013
14:11 GMT |
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A while ago, NASA announced that it would be holding a live Google+ Hangout with three astronauts aboard the ISS. It's now time for the hangout, Canadian Chris Hadfield along with Americans Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn, will be answering questions live starting at 10:30 EST, 15:30 UTC.
There's still time t... |
22 February 2013
10:06 GMT |
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You probably think rain is an exclusively earthly phenomenon, certainly, it's not something that happens on the sun. But you'd be wrong, at least if you're willing to bend the definition of "rain" a little. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured some spectacular images of activity on the sun... |
21 February 2013
14:21 GMT |
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NASA has confirmed that Curiosity has successfully recovered material from inside a Martian rock. The rover used its drill for the first time recently to bore a hole into a rock chosen for its peculiar makeup.
It then managed to retrieve material and place it inside its scoop to be analyzed. This is the first time ... |
21 February 2013
04:16 GMT |
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This past February 20, NASA went public with the news that the scientists now taking part in its Kepler mission had succeeded in identifying a new planetary system.
What makes this planetary system stand out amongst others of its kind in the fact that, by the looks of it, it is home to the smallest planet known to ... |
21 February 2013
02:42 GMT |
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According to a team of researchers working with NASA, the meteor that hit Russia only last week was a tad bigger than initially thought. Thus, it seems that this space rock was the largest to hit out planet in a century.
New information made available to the public by NASA says that, contrary to initial reports, tw... |
20 February 2013
02:40 GMT |
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NASA has lost contact with the ISS as communications failed during a software update. The ISS can still communicate with the ground, but only when it's over Russia via ground stations there.
There is no immediate danger to the vessel or the crew and instructions on how to fix the problem were relayed to the si... |
19 February 2013
12:53 GMT |
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Chris Fane, a developer from the United Kingdom, has managed to build an extremely cheap alternative to a NASA technology used on the International Space Station. Using just a Raspberry Pi, some LED and his knowledge, Chris Fane has built a device that's able to mimic a circadian lighting setup, similar to the ... |
14 February 2013
04:20 GMT |
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We've been hearing about it for a few days now and it finally happened, Canadian actor William Shatner, who is still best known for his role as Captain Kirk in Star Trek the original series, got together for a chat with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who's currently flying above us in the ISS.
The 10 m... |
8 February 2013
09:31 GMT |
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NASA astronomers have used two of their most important observatories, the Spitzer and the Hubble space telescopes, to unravel a mystery, periodic outburst of light coming from an object dubbed LRLL 54361.
Using infrared and visible light data, the astronomers have concluded that the object is made up of a couple of... |
8 February 2013
07:31 GMT |
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Chris Hadfield is so busy making videos on how astronauts clip their nails in space, practicing his guitar, getting ready for a chat with fellow Canadian William Shatner, the one and only Captain Kirk, that it's hard to imagine when he has the time to snap some of the most amazing photos we've ever seen. Oh... |
7 February 2013
09:05 GMT |
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Astronomers have been looking for planets and life all over the galaxy, but maybe they need to look closer to home. A new study by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that a big number of red dwarfs in the galaxy have Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone.
Red dwarfs are the ... |
7 February 2013
04:44 GMT |
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Auroras are one of the most beautiful things on Earth as anyone lucky enough to see them in person will tell you. But, much like everything else that's beautiful on Earth and beyond, we don't know that much about them.
A new NASA mission will attempt to explain more about the phenomenon with particular in... |
1 February 2013
08:01 GMT |
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Information made available to the public by NASA says that, this coming February 15, our planet is to receive yet another visitor: an asteroid known to scientists as the 2012 DA14.
Besides its being roughly half the size of a football field, what makes this space rock stand out amongst others of its kind is the fac... |
1 February 2013
04:53 GMT |
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Britain is not used to snow, of any kind and even the lightest fall seems to send the country into a frenzy. But it seems that snow is becoming, if not a regular phenomenon, a not so rare one.
At this moment, almost the entire country is covered in snow making for a spectacular and very rare photograph of the UK fr... |
30 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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Rockets aren't easy to build, the fact that the term "rocket scientists" is used to describe someone who's incredibly smart doing incredibly complex things, attests to that. But rockets aren't actually all that complicated and, in fact, haven't changed much for almost a century. The essence is, pu... |
26 January 2013
10:51 GMT |
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Astronomers may be looking at stars in distant galaxies, but they're looking at the star nearest to us as well, the sun. There are plenty of instruments constantly scanning the sun, but there's also a lot to learn.A few months ago, NASA launched a short-lived space telescope, the High Resolution Coronal Ima... |
24 January 2013
13:21 GMT |
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When you think of erupting volcanoes, Siberia is probably the last place that comes to mind. Yet, it's there, technically in the Kamchatka peninsula, that the most active volcanoes in the world are all packed together, 29 out of the 300 or so in the region.
NASA's Terra satellite which, as the name implies... |
22 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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With the flurry of announcements and findings coming from Curiosity, it's easy to forget that there's another rover on Mars, Opportunity, one that's been around for quite a lot longer than Curiosity.
In fact, Opportunity is celebrating its 10th anniversary on the red planet this week, 10 years filled ... |
21 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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The infamous NASA mohawk guy is back for the Obama inauguration, and he plans to premiere a new look that, he says, will upstage the president himself.
Bobak Ferdowsi is a 33-year-old flight director that captured the world's eye with his appearances in the televised transmission for the Curiosity rover's ... |
19 January 2013
04:11 GMT |
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The picture above was taken by NASA satellites and shows how fracking in North Dakota must be held accountable for upping local light pollution levels.
As explained on Ecorazzi, the light pollution seen and marked in this picture is nothing like the one that affects most urban areas. Thus, this light comes as a res... |
18 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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Only yesterday, NASA made it public news that, courtesy of a technology that they hope would someday become routine, they succeeded in using a laser beam in order to send the image of the Mona Lisa from Earth to a spacecraft located in lunar orbit.
As explained in the video above, the Mona Lisa traveled over a dist... |
18 January 2013
02:40 GMT |
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