The first NASA mission to get a closer look at Jupiter just revealed the planet looks drastically different than researchers thought. NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched in August 2011, took five years to reach Jupiter and has been orbiting around the gas giant gathering data ever since. While it was believed Jupiter was uniform inside and […]
NASA ‘Sting’ Operation Against 74-Year-Old Widow of Apollo Engineer Draws Court Rebuke…
Agents of the U.S. government are entitled to immunity from lawsuits for what they do in the line of duty, as long as they do it right, in accord with the Constitution. But what one NASA investigator did to Joann Davis, a financially distressed widow of an engineer on the Apollo program who was trying […]
Breathtaking Space Film on Cassini’s Final Months Exploring Saturn…
To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini’s remarkable story, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film “Wanderers,” to create a stirring finale video befitting…
NASA: Ingredients for Life at Saturn’s Moon Enceladus…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy particles spraying from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The discovery means the small, icy moon — which has a global ocean under its surface — has a source of chemical energy that could be useful for microbes, if any exist there. The finding also provides […]
China’s Secret Plan to Crush SpaceX and the U.S. Space Program…
China’s breakneck economic expansion may be flagging, but the country’s ambitions in space show no signs of slowing down. Alongside ongoing efforts to rival NASA by placing robotic landers, and eventually astronauts, on the moon and Mars, China’s government is increasingly looking to its burgeoning space sector to rival U.S. companies like Jeff Bezos’ Blue […]
Trump Renews NASA Mission for Space Travel, Deep Space Exploration…
President Trump put NASA on course for deep space exploration Tuesday, signing a bill that authorizes $19.5 billion in funding to revive the agency’s manned-space flight program and plan missions to Mars and beyond. Mr. Trump spoke of the renewal of NASA’s mission, including development of new spacecraft and preparation for a mars mission, in […]
‘Exoplanet Hop’: NASA Releases Epic Travel Poster to Mark Landmark Discovery (PHOTOS)…
NASA has released a stunning new ‘space tourism poster’ to mark the momentous discovery of seven exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1, sitting some 39 light-years from Earth. The space agency announced the discovery of the exoplanets – planets circling stars outside our solar system – at a press conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday. It […]
NASA’s Longshot Bet on a Revolutionary Rocket May Be about to Pay Off…
Franklin Chang-Díaz bounds up a handful of stairs and peers through a porthole cut into the side of a silver, tanker-truck-sized vacuum chamber. Inside, a blueish-purple light shines, unchanging and constant, like a bright flashlight. “It looks kind of boring,” Chang-Díaz admits. “But that plume is 3.5 million degrees. If you stuck your hand in […]
NASA Facility with Deep-Space Rocket Takes Direct Hit from Tornado…
A tornado on Tuesday damaged the NASA facility in New Orleans where workers are building key components of the agency’s new deep-space rocket. The twister touched down before noon and ripped holes in the roof and walls of the sprawling Michoud Assembly Facility. NASA employees and contractors there are building the huge hydrogen and oxygen […]
Uber Developing Flying Cars…
In 2010, an advanced aircraft engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center named Mark Moore published a white paper outlining the feasibility of electric aircrafts that could take off and land like helicopters but were smaller and quieter. The vehicles would be capable of providing a speedy alternative to the dreary morning commute…
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