The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a statement stating that early Wednesday, an ammonia leak alarm rang at the International Space Station. The alarm caused all six astronauts to look for shelter. The crew aboard ISS put on emergency masks and rushed to the orbiting lab in the Russian side of the station around 4 a.m. (9:00 GMT), closing the door to the US side. News … [Read more...]
NASA’s IRIS Captures Its Largest Solar Flare
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed the strongest solar flare on Jan. 28 at about 2:40 p.m. EST since its launch in the summer of 2013, according to the space agency. According to scientists solar flares are "bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space." However, scientists are unsure about the details of what actually leads to the phenomenon. NASA news … [Read more...]