Google and NASA Join Forces to Inspire Girls Into Science

Medicine & Technology May 18, 2015

Disney Junior approached both Google and NASA last year for a new series about a space adventure boy and his smart sister who codes in a spaceship piloted by their mother, everyone was ready to bury those stereotypes once and for all.

SpaceX Earns Certification to Launch NASA Science Missions

May 17, 2015

It's official. NASA has formally certified SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to launch all but the agency's most costly robotic science missions. The first mission for SpaceX will be the launch of a United States and France oceanography satellite that is scheduled for liftoff from California in July.

NASA Searches for Small Satellite Launchers

May 16, 2015

Students and scientists continue to pack increasingly innovative missions into tiny satellites known as CubeSats, but getting them to space proves both difficult and expensive. A NASA program based at Kennedy Space Center hopes to help introduce a new class of rockets designed specifically for very small satellites, or even bunches of them.

Research on a Grand Scale: Over 5,000 Scientists Come Together for Record-Breaking Publication

May 16, 2015

If only the world were as unified as the field of particle physics, what a grand world it would be... Over 5,000 of them have come together in what is the largest scientific collaboration on record. Their paper, which was published on May 14th in Physical Review Letters, is a joint effort between members from ATLAS and CMS, two teams that operate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of our universe.

Rare Quasar Quartet is the First of Its Kind

May 16, 2015

Imagine winning the Powerball jackpot-more than once. You may have a sense of how a team of astronomers feels after their discovery of a set of four quasars at the visible universe's edge. These brilliant beacons of light are typically spread far apart, but this quartet exists shoved together in only 650,000 light-years of space-equivalent to around a quarter of the distance between our closest big neighbor galaxy Andromeda and the Milky Way.

Burning Up Over Siberia—Russian Rocket Disintegrates Along With Mexican Satellite

May 16, 2015

It seems Russia is experiencing even more trouble with their space program vehicles. A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned causing it to burn up in the atmosphere over Siberia not long after launch, Russia's space agency said.

NASA Probe Searches Pluto for New Moons and Rings

May 16, 2015

NASA’s New Horizons space probe is set to make the history books when it flies past Pluto on July 14. Currently, the probe looking closely at the little dwarf planet as it looks for anything that could cause problems for the craft during the final months of its historic mission.

NASA Hopes to Rely on Algae and Bacteria for Oxygen Production on Mars

May 16, 2015

As scientists around the world work feverishly to meet the 2030 deadline for sending humans to Mars, one of their most critical issues - oxygen production - may be solved by two very basic organisms: bacteria and algae.

NASA Astronaut Who Walked on the Moon Believes Aliens DID Crash in Roswell

May 15, 2015

Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who once walked on the moon, says that he believes that aliens did crash in Roswell, and some of them were captured alive.

How Do Galaxies Die?

May 15, 2015

In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh have found that when galaxies do die they die of strangulation.

NASA Scientist Says Space Mining Needs Oversight

May 15, 2015

While prospecting and mining on the moon or on asteroids is probably a couple of decades away from becoming reality, according to a NASA scientist speaking at a symposium on planetary and terrestrial mining, oversight will be needed by a body much like the United Nations.

Humans May Not Have to Carry Oxygen to Mars

May 14, 2015

NASA is already in the planning stages for a future trip to Mars, and one of the hurdles they must jump is how humans will breath on the Red Planet. However, instead of carrying huge oxygen tanks, future human missions may actually utilize methods to actually produce the life giving gas on the planet itself.

NASA Learns What the Mysterious Dark Material on Europa Is

May 14, 2015

Scientists at NASA have found evidence using laboratory experiments that the dark material that dusts the surface of Europa, Jupiter's ice covered moon, may actually be sea salt from a subsurface ocean.

Cause of Galactic Death: Strangulation

May 14, 2015

It's the ultimate whodunnit: what kills galaxies? A new study, published today in the journal Nature, names strangulation as the primary cause of galactic death.

Crew Change Delayed on the International Space Station

May 13, 2015

Following the failed launch of a Russian resupply rocket, NASA and its space agency partners have decided to delay the return of three astronauts from the International Space Station.