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04/16/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Kepler, NASA’s planet-finding spacecraft, about to run out of fuel

All good things must end. So it is with Kepler, the plucky space telescope that discovered thousands of planets despite significant malfunctions. NASA announced that the spacecraft will run out of fuel in just a few months, according to an article on Space.com. “Our current estimates are that Kepler’s tank will run dry within several […]

04/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Solar eruptions send shock waves through space; 3D models created by NASA satellites map trajectory

Recently released three-dimensional models of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) give us a much better idea of the process behind these solar eruptions. From the viewpoints of NASA satellites, massive shock waves can be seen rippling out from the Sun, according to an article on Space.com. CMEs are tremendous expulsions of plasma and charged particles from […]

03/23/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

NASA has identified an exoplanet with large amounts of water

Scientists have found water in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet known as WASP-39b. Although its initial discovery was way back in 2011, little research has been directed towards the Saturn-sized extrasolar planet up until recently. The team who took the first in-depth look at WASP-39b collected data from various telescopes. Namely, the Hubble Space […]

03/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook

NASA’s OSIRIS-REX mission will examine samples from an asteroid, seeking clues to the origin of life

As the OSIRIS-REx probe hurtles towards its rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu, it took the time to snap a breathtaking photo of Terra and its bright partner Luna waltzing through the constellations, reported The Daily Mail in a recent article. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) kindly shared the image of our planet and its natural […]

03/06/2018 / By David Williams

Scoping out Mars for the best place to land, NASA’s 2020 mission hopes to find evidence of life

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently in the planning stages for a handful of Mars missions, the first of which is scheduled to happen by the year 2020. The space agency aims to find evidence of past life on the Martian planet, by way of examining organic materials on the planet’s surface. […]

03/01/2018 / By David Williams

Pictures from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captures images from the edge of our solar system, more than three billion miles away

It’s quite amazing what can be achieved with the use of a camera and an unmanned vehicle just floating around in deep space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced that its New Horizons spacecraft made history by capturing an image near the edge of the solar system – more than three billion […]

02/20/2018 / By David Williams

Pictures from the Mars Curiosity rover reveal an Earthly-looking landscape

Have you ever been curious about what the surface of the planet Mars looks like nowadays? As luck would have it, the Mars Curiosity rover that was sent to the red planet by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) back in 2012 has just provided new images of the Martian landscape. It shows a […]

02/14/2018 / By David Williams

Breakthrough in the hunt for Earth-like planets: NASA optics experts have found a way to circumvent distortions that have hindered the search

Finding Earth-like planets that could one day serve as the home of humanity can be hard enough as it is. Now a small team of astronomers from the National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) has shown that, with the use of specialized equipment and new methods, it can be made a little bit easier. According to […]

02/06/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Amateur astronomer saves NASA mission: Researchers lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, but it’s been found, still functioning

In late January, Scott Tilley, was scanning the skies for hidden satellites. The 47-year-old electrical engineer in Canada and self-described amateur radio astronomer was on the lookout for a secret government satellite code-named “Zuma.” Instead of finding Zuma, Tilley uncovered something more extraordinary floating in Earth’s orbit: a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite […]

02/06/2018 / By David Williams

One step closer to Mars: NASA’s next Lander prepping for May launch

Despite all the apparent chaos in the world, the National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) still hasn’t forgotten how to remain organized enough to carry out its space missions. Its upcoming mission is one that’s headed straight for the planet Mars, where a new lander is expected to begin an entirely new probe of the planet‘s deep interior […]

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