Mar 17
Mercury is shrinking, its radius reduced as much as 4.3 miles over the past four billion years, scientists have confirmed, with the planet contracting as its iron core cools. The … Continue reading
Mar 17
Throughout the 1950s and 60s, aviation engineers struggled to overcome an important issue: That planes became increasingly difficult to control, the closer they got to the sound barrier. It wasn’t until NASA strapped a pair of custom-made wings onto this fighter that supersonic flight became not just feasible, but downright commonplace.
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Mar 16
With limited lab space aboard the ISS and skyrocketing launch costs, only the very best extra-terrestrial experiments make it into orbit. To put prospective experiments and astronauts alike through their weightless paces over the last six decades, NASA has relied on a gracefully arcing series of cargo planes called The Vomit Comet.
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Mar 14
Crowdsourcing already gets products off the ground and figures out where traffic congestion is, but CosmoQuest is turning the power of group-work to map the moon. Using high-resolution images beamed … Continue reading
Mar 13
In July of 2011, NASA launched an interesting application that was only for iOS users. The application was called the NASA Visualization Explorer and it allowed iPad users to explore … Continue reading
Mar 11
Last year, NASA introduced its partnership with Planetary Resources and upcoming Grand Asteroid Challenge, which pits humanity against the race to protect our planet from potentially devastating asteroids. On Monday, … Continue reading
Mar 06
Hubble has captured the destruction of a 200,000-ton asteroid in the asteroid belt for "the first time ever." It slowly broke apart for unknown reasons, scientists say. University of California at Los Angeles’ David Jewitt, says that "this [was] a rock, and seeing it fall apart before our eyes is pretty amazing."
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Mar 06
If you’re a NASA engineer you get to play with a lot of awesome toys, like these furious mini-rockets. They are models of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage engines, "scaled down to just 2 percent of the actual size of the flight hardware."
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Mar 06
Scientists believe that one of the most likely places in the solar system to harbor life, other than Earth, is one of Jupiter’s moons called Europa. Europa is covered by … Continue reading
Mar 05
Today Elon Musk, CEO and Chief Designer with SpaceX – and head of companies like Tesla Motors – spoke with the Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. There he laid … Continue reading
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