Space

Reasons To Mine The Moon

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Article - The Conversation - Nov 30 2014 - 12:10pm

Orion's Test Flight: Recovering America's Space Dream

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 3 2014 - 7:44pm

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Looks Retro but It's The Right Stuff.

Why does the new space craft look like a capsule?  The simple fact is that between a capsule and a space plane like the shuttle, a capsule is the better vehicle for a direct return trip from interplanetary space to Earths surface.  People my age, early-mid ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 7 2014 - 10:03am

Undiscovered Worlds and Pale Blue Dots

Undiscovered Worlds and Pale Blue Dots May 9th 2015 will see the inauguration of Cornell University's new Institute for Pale Blue Dots.  Details here. The first image of a "pale blue dot" was sent back by Voyager 1.  The "dot" is ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Dec 6 2014 - 6:43pm

How The Fast Winds Of Titan Shape Its Dunes

Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the only planetary body outside Venus, Earth and Mars to have fields of wind-blown dunes on its surface. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2014 - 6:28pm

Measuring The Cosmos- Now With Data

Researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelona have used data from astronomical surveys to measure a standard distance that is central to our understanding of the expansion of the universe, a much more accurate method than calcul ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2014 - 4:22pm

Assessing the Asteroid Impact Threat: Are We Doomed Yet?

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 14 2014 - 5:24pm

JWST Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining

With just under 4 years until its planned launch in October 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project reports it remains on schedule and budget. However, technical challenges with JWST elements and major subsystems, have diminished the project� ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 26 2019 - 4:30pm

Curiosity Detects Spike In Methane, And Other Organic Molecules, On Mars

In 2009, researchers detected methane on Mars, suggesting the planet may be biologically or geologically active.  Now NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2014 - 7:15pm

The Origin Of Theta Auroras Revealed

Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the sun's effect on Earth, but many aspects of these spectacular displays are still poorly understood. One particular type of very high-latitude aurora is known as a theta aurora-- seen from above it look ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 6:35pm