The blue dot in this image marks the spot of an energetic pulsar — the magnetic, spinning core of star that blew up in a supernova explosion. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SAO Feature Link: Full image and caption Our Milky Way galaxy is littered with the still-sizzling remains of exploded stars…. Read more“Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays”
Four Decades of Sea Ice From Space: The Beginning
One of the most visible signs of climate change in recent years was not even visible at all until a few decades ago. The sea ice cap that covers the Arctic Ocean has been changing dramatically, especially in the last 15 years. Its ice is thinner and more vulnerable –… Read more“Four Decades of Sea Ice From Space: The Beginning”
Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday
September 3, 2014 This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2014 RC past Earth on September 7, 2014. At time of closest approach, the space rock will be about one-tenth the distance from Earth to the moon. Times indicated on the graphic are Universal Time. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This graphic… Read more“Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday”
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
An artist concept image of where seven carefully-selected instruments will be located on NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. The instruments will conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet as never before. Image Credit: NASA The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will… Read more“NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before”
NASA’s IceCube No Longer On Ice
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has chosen a team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to build its first Earth science-related CubeSat mission. The tiny payload, known as IceCube or Earth-1, will demonstrate and validate a new 874-gigahertz submillimeter-wave receiver that could help advance scientists’ understanding of… Read more“NASA’s IceCube No Longer On Ice”
Orion Tests Set Stage for Mission
Orion Tests Set Stage for Mission Astronauts Doug Hurley and Rex Walheim examine Orion and a section of the black back shell tiles that will be installed on spacecraft now that the testing of the stacked crew and service module is complete. Image Credit: NASA NASA’s Orion spacecraft is not… Read more“Orion Tests Set Stage for Mission”
Orbital-2 Launch Coverage
Orbital Sciences Corp. has postponed the launch of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station until 12:52 p.m. EDT on Sunday, July 13, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Severe weather in the Wallops area has repeatedly interrupted Orbital’s operations schedule… Read more“Orbital-2 Launch Coverage”