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NASA releases video of Thursday’s massive solar flare
NASA said it detected a massive, x-class solar flare on Thursday that sent a coronal mass ejection spiraling toward Earth at over 850 miles per second. A full 24-hours later, the agency has made photos and a high definition video of the phenomenal cosmic event available online. A previous solar flare earlier…
Hubble telescope spots fifth moon near Pluto
WASHINGTON — US astronomers have found a fifth moon orbiting far-away Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. The irregular-shaped moon, nicknamed S/2012 for now, is about six to 15 miles (10 to 24 kilometers) across, the US space agency said. Last year, astronomers reported finding the fourth moon around the icy…
NASA Mars images ‘next best thing to being there’
The US space agency NASA has recently pieced together a panoramic view from the camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, calling it the “next best thing to being” on the Red Planet. The full-circle scene fuses together 817 images taken by the mast-mounted panoramic camera (Pancam) on the Opportunity…
Scientists say NASA’s 2010 ‘new form of life’ claim was untrue
Two scientific papers appear to have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic. “Contrary to an original report, the new research clearly shows that the bacterium, GFAJ-1, cannot substitute arsenic for phosphorus…
NASA: Solar storms possible after Monday’s massive solar flare
U.S. space agency NASA warned this week that a massive solar flare recorded on Monday could cause spectacular auroras on Earth as soon as Wednesday. Video published by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in multiple wavelengths jetting out from a sunspot on July 2. The agency said that…
NASA’s Mars rover to land via ‘sky crane’ in search of ancient habitable environment
NASA’s one-ton Mars rover “Curiosity” is expected to touch down on the red planet next month using a radically new delivery method. Previous landings on Mars have used large airbags to cushion the space rover’s fall. But the new rover is much too large to use that method of landing.…
WATCH LIVE: NASA launches test flight for Orion space capsule
On Monday, NASA unveiled the Orion space capsule. Also called the Orion MPCV (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle), with Orion, NASA hopes to revolutionize manned space travel. The hope is this will eventually lead to launching humans into deep space. Watch live, broadcast by NASA on UStream on July 2. Video streaming…
Scientists host NASA bake sale
Could some really great cupcakes be enough to send Americans back to the Moon? More than a dozen US universities are hosting events on Saturday to urge support for the cash-strapped space agency, which faces major cuts to its planetary programs in fiscal year 2013. Ranging from shoe shines to…
WATCH LIVE: The transit of Venus
Australia and other countries in the Pacific have the opportunity to see the transit of Venus, when the planet passes between the Earth and the Sun. NASA is offering coverage of this rare event, which won’t occur again until 2117. Watch the live coverage from NASA, broadcast by UStream on…
Military gives NASA two space telescopes more powerful than Hubble
Although America’s space agency has perpetually seen its funding threatened and reduced in recent years, few would argue that the nation’s defense agency, the Pentagon, suffers from the same problem. That disparity is so great that Pentagon official dialed up NASA last year and revealed that the National Reconnaissance Office had secretly…
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