Dec 11 NASA counts down Counting down until midnight when @NASA_Orion test capsule to leave on cross-country trip. Share pix #SpotOrion pic.twitter.com/hLJMiEEdo3— NASA_Langley (@NASA_Langley) December 11, 2013… Continue reading
Dec 09 Microbes could have lived in Mars’ ancient lake crater NASA's Mars rover Curiosity Photo courtesy of Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA NASA's Curiosity rover encountered an ancient dry lake that could have supported microbes called chemolithoautotrophs, according to scientists who reviewed photos and data gathered in the crater, the… Continue reading
Dec 04 A new PSA fights texting while driving — with a text .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Video by TextsWreck Twenty-one… Continue reading
Nov 20 15 years of the International Space Station Photo by NASA It speeds around the Earth at 17,100 mph and clocks an orbit time of just under 93 minutes. It's gotten magazine spreads dedicated to its future. It's even hosted a performance of "Space… Continue reading
Nov 19 ‘Dueling dinosaur’ skeletons fail to sell at auction The theropod in the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil lies encased in its field jacket. (Photo courtesy Bonhams) Watch the auction live Tuesday afternoon. Update | Tuesday, 2:38 p.m. EST: During a Bonham's auction of fossils, the fossil… Continue reading
Nov 19 First satellite made by high school students to head into space The mission symbol for TJ³Sat NASA's Minotaur 1 is due to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia Tuesday night, carrying 29 satellites into orbit with it -- one of which is making history as… Continue reading
Nov 18 MAVEN to answer the mystery of Mars’ missing atmosphere An artist's concept of MAVEN satellite, pictured, shows Mars in the background. NASA plans to launch the satellite into Mars' orbit on Monday. NewsHour will live stream the launch. Image by NASA/Goddard Mars is a cold, dry, dusty… Continue reading
Nov 15 Iceberg as big as Singapore could cross paths with shipping lanes Before and after photos of an iceberg that was part of the Pine Island Glacier, separating from Antarctica. Images by Holli Riebeek/NASA Earth Observatory An iceberg roughly the size of Singapore, which broke off the Antarctic's Pine… Continue reading
Nov 11 Cosmonaut carries computer virus aboard International Space Station Photo via NASA A USB stick drive carried by a Russian cosmonaut snuck a computer virus aboard the International Space Station, says Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky. The virus, says Kaspersky, was "Stuxnet," a worm that… Continue reading
Oct 30 An archive of dreams around the world? There’s about to be an app for that Photo by Matt McClain/For The Washington Post via Getty Images What if you could archive your dreams? What if you could see what people were dreaming about on the other side of the world, or even the other side… Continue reading