This 21-Year-Old Just Developed A New Method To Find Precursors Of Life On Mars
Detecting life on another planet would be the discovery of the century, and Mars rovers are hot on the trail to make history. Lending them a helping hand is a 21-year-old at Washington State...
View ArticleThis Fantastic Picture Shows What The Earth And Mars Look Like From The Moon
Normally, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has its cameras fixed on the surface of the Moon. But on May 24, 2014, flight engineers directed the spacecraft to turn back for a quick look at Earth...
View ArticleHere's The Wacky Reason Elon Musk Founded SpaceX
In 2001, Elon Musk visited NASA's website to find information on manned missions to Mars... and came up empty.The year in which the science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey took place looked very...
View ArticleA Mountain-Sized Comet Will Zip Right By Mars This Weekend
A comet will buzz Mars this Sunday (Oct. 19) in an epic encounter that has astronomers around the world tingling with excitement.Comet Siding Spring, also known as C/2013 A1, will miss the Red Planet...
View ArticleNASA Is Finally Unraveling The Mystery Of Mars' Missing Atmosphere
Mars' upper atmosphere has been gradually disappearing for millions of years.NASA's latest probe, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), has just started sending back data from the upper...
View ArticleMIT Researchers Destroyed This Plan To Send Humans To Mars
A highly publicized plan to send the first humans to Mars within the next decade is riddled with problems and probably will not get off the ground anytime soon, according to a new report from...
View ArticleThis Is The Biggest Problem Facing Elon Musk's Dream Of Building A City On Mars
Through SpaceX, Elon Musk has done more than perhaps anyone to rekindle interest in space travel. And he hasn't been shy about his ambitions for the company, stating that he hasn't taken SpaceX public...
View ArticleA Once-In-A-Million-Year Comet Will Fly By Mars On Sunday
Washington (AFP) - A fast-moving comet is about to fly by Mars for a one-in-a-million-year encounter with the Red Planet, photographed and documented by a flurry of spacecraft, NASA said.The comet,...
View ArticleWatch A Mountain-Sized Comet Zip By Mars During A Once-In-A-Million-Years...
Mountain-sized Comet Siding Spring has spent its entire life in the outer reaches of our solar system, but on Sunday Oct. 19 it will enter the inner solar system for the first time, heading toward the...
View ArticleIncredible Image Shows Mars With The Comet That Zipped By It Last Weekend
The famed Hubble Space Telscope has captured a jaw-dropping view of a comet making an incredibly close flyby of Mars.The space telescope snapped the amazing image when Comet Siding Spring (also called...
View ArticleAstronaut Chris Hadfield Explains The Big Problem With The Mars One Mission
If you haven't heard, there's a plan to start up a colony of humans living on Mars in the near future.If the next decade goes as planned, the not-for-profit organization, Mars One, will launch a manned...
View ArticleThe US Is About To Test A Spaceship That Could Take Astronauts To Mars
A spaceship built to carry humans is about to venture into deep space for the first time in more than four decades.NASA's Orion space capsule is scheduled to blast off on its first test flight Thursday...
View ArticleCuriosity Rover Witnessed Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars — A Tantalizing...
The Mars Curiosity rover has detected a mysterious spike in the organic molecule methane — one that could be a sign of life.That's according to a team of NASA scientists at a press conference at this...
View ArticleNASA Mars Rover Has Found Organic Molecules In Martian Soil For The First Time
Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity tweeted some exciting news:Certified organics! I detected organics for the 1st time on the surface of Mars #AGU14http://t.co/TsMs5LEW8bpic.twitter.com/AVk5Wxp5G0 —...
View ArticleNASA's Incredible, Futuristic, And Totally Real Plan To Establish A Human...
NASA has plans to live on Venus. Seriously.In fact, up in the clouds above its scorching surface, Venus is "probably the most Earth-like environment that's out there," Chris Jones of NASA told Evan...
View ArticleAmazing Footage Of What NASA Astronauts Will See When They Return From Mars
While some Mars missions offer no hope of return, astronauts taking part in NASA's Orion mission (scheduled for as early as 2030) are in for an amazing view on their return to Earth.Orion will be the...
View ArticleTop 10 Space Events Of 2014
It seems a lot of the space stories of this year involve spacecraft making journeys: bouncing across a comet, or making their way to Mars. Private companies also figure prominently, both in terms of...
View ArticleThere's A Very Small Possibility That We Will Find Aliens In 2015
One of the reasons that the search for life elsewhere in the universe is so exciting is that it would take only one chance discovery, one lucky break, for all the walls to come tumbling down. But where...
View ArticleNASA Astronaut: Why We Need To Visit The Moon, Not Mars
There's so much talk about going to Mars that we tend to overlook a more reasonable mission that is staring us in the face, says former National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Jeffrey...
View ArticleSPACEX LAUNCH ABORTED
The first SpaceX launch of the year, scheduled to take place at 6:20 a.m. EST on Tuesday morning from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, was aborted because of an issue with the rocket...
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