During the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, NASA officials announced that Kepler space telescope discovered eight more exoplanets. With this event, NASA reached a historic milestone of the 1,000th newly verified exoplanet during its Kepler mission. Kepler has been hunting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, since June 2014. But on January 6, NASA marked Kepler’s … [Read more...]
SpaceX to Safely Land Falcon 9 Rocket on a Floating Platform
Space X plans to land a rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean, rather than letting it smash into pieces after its mission is over. The Space X team hopes that by reusing multistage rockets billions of dollars would be saved, while keeping the environment clean. Elon Musk, CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) and co-founder of the Paypal platform, said that … [Read more...]
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Suffers from Short-Term Memory Loss
NASA reported that Mars Opportunity rover has encountered some technical problems that make it difficult for the robotic explorer to save new data on its flash memory. Technicians were able to reprogram the machine to store further data on its RAM thus leading to memory loss when the rover enters hibernate mode. NASA’s Opportunity rover was designed to explore Mars for only three months, but it … [Read more...]
NASA’s Major Breakthroughs in 2014 Revealed
NASA has recently reported its major breakthroughs and groundbreaking achievements in 2014. It seems that the most important achievements were related to Mars exploration – rover Curiosity’s landing on Mars’ surface and Orion spacecraft’s (photo) short flight test. Orion would be the first spacecraft to safely get a human crew to Mars by 2021. Orion’s flight test was successfully completed … [Read more...]
NASA NuSTAR Telescope to Solve Our Sun’s Corona Puzzle
NASA has recently said that NuSTAR, a very sensitive X-ray space telescope designed for black hole hunting, is about to solve the mystery surrounding our Sun’s outer atmosphere also called the solar corona. It seems that both our closest star and black holes irradiate huge amounts of high energy X-Rays, and NuSTAR is just the right telescope for the job. Scientists said that a telescope would … [Read more...]
NASA Plans to Colonize Venus. Code Name: HAVOC Mission
NASA recently announced that it planned to colonize planet Venus by sending a manned mission to its atmosphere. The High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) mission would first send a probe to test the conditions on Venus. NASA experts also plan to design and implement a floating city on the second planet from the Sun. Scientists said that NASA planned to colonize Venus, rather than Mars … [Read more...]
Water Doesn’t Prove Life Existed On Mars
At the present time it is obvious that the red planet once had large lakes and rivers but the presence of water doesn’t prove life existed on Mars. As a matter of fact, water in the form of a liquid is only one of the numerous other factors needed to support life. A report claims that researchers will have to explore other factors to determine how habitable the planet may have been … [Read more...]
Antarctica Melting Rate Has Tripled, NASA Reveals
NASA researchers have just made public a worrying fact about the way the Antarctic ice is melting. Scientists said that the Antarctica melting rate has tripled since the last time they checked. The latest study was done at the University of California at the Irvine and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The researchers used data gathered in the past 21 years and the study was able … [Read more...]
NASA’s Mars Mission Takes Its First Major Step
The Mars mission is something that scientists have dreamt of since mid-20th century. Immense amounts of time and money have been invested in the past decade to make this dream real, and for the first time in history, everyone can see with their own eyes that we are, slowly but surely, getting there. Although probes and rovers have been trekking on Martian land for a while, the aim has always … [Read more...]
NASA Black Hole Friday is a Tweeter Hit
NASA is celebrating its 2nd annual Black Hole Friday. Throughout Friday, NASA had been sharing pictures and info about black holes on social media. The #BlackHoleFriday meant that NASA tweeted facts about black holes, including a handful of Black Friday-themed jokes. All in all the space agency sent out over a dozen tweets and retweets on black holes, such as: "If you lived inside this dwarf … [Read more...]
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