Chris Lewicki’s (President of Planetary Resources) latest update contains some details on Planetary Defense, a big announcement about a new investor and partner, and advance notice of a special event next week.
I’m at the 3rd International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference in Flagstaff, AZ this week. The conference gathers experts from around the world to discuss our … Read the rest of this article
In science fiction, finding antimatter on board your spaceship is not good news. Usually, it means you’re moments away from an explosion.
In real life, though, finding antimatter could lead to a Nobel Prize.
On April 3rd, researchers led by Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting of MIT announced that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle detector operating onboard the International Space … Read the rest of this article
This beautiful aurora illuminates the sky over the snow-clad landscape near Tromsø, Norway.
Bright aurora illuminating the sky over Norway (near Tromsø) on 17 February 2013. Image credit: ESA–S. MazroueiThese colourful displays are produced when electrically charged particles travelling from the Sun in the solar wind are channelled along Earth’s magnetic field lines and strike atoms high in the … Read the rest of this article
More ignorance about space exploration and astronomy. People in the European Union were asked a simple question: How long does it take to get to Mars? Sadly, most people haven’t a clue! And this comes on foot of the announcement by the Dutch based company Mars One that they will shortly be asking for volunteers for a one way trip … Read the rest of this article
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the official body that governs the designations of all celestial bodies — in their capacity of purveyors of all things “official” has deemed attempts at crowdsourcing names for exoplanets illegitimate.
“In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) … Read the rest of this article
NASA is developing a lunar rover to find and analyze water and other materials trapped in deep freezes at the moon’s poles and to demonstrate how water can be made on site.
Slated to fly in November 2017, the mission, called Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatile Extraction (RESOLVE), will have a week to accomplish its goals.… Read the rest of this article
The surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa exposes material churned up from inside the moon and also material resulting from matter and energy coming from above. If you want to learn about the deep saltwater ocean beneath this unusual world’s icy shell — as many people do who are interested in possible extraterrestrial life — you might target your investigation of … Read the rest of this article
An ice cloud taking shape over Titan’s south pole is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon. Made from an unknown ice, this type of cloud has long hung over Titan’s north pole, where it is now fading, according to observations made by the … Read the rest of this article
Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
While following news about Mars and NASA’s Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a five-year-old image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that resemble four pieces of hardware from the Soviet Mars 3 mission: the parachute, heat … Read the rest of this article
The following are statements from the associate administrators of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Science Mission Directorate and Space Technology Mission Directorate on the administration’s budget request for the 2014 fiscal year.
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NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to the Earth-Moon system, where astronauts can visit …
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