Category Archives: Astronomy

Radar Captures Video of Asteroid Toutatis over 4.4 Million Miles away

                Asteroid Toutatis image captured December 12, 2012 NASA captured this image when the Asteroid was 4.4 million miles from Earth. This 64-frame…

Hubble sees further back in time than ever before

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers announced Dec. 12 they have seen further back in time than ever before and have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies…

Voyager 1 Probe Searching Deep Space Near Edge of Solar System.

KnowledgeOrb reported earlier this year that Voyager 1 was nearing exit of the solar systems helosphere, or the edge of the solar system. NASA’s reports that Voyager 1 spacecraft has…

Messenger Spacecraft finds water on planet Mecury

New information from  MESSENGER spacecraft shows there is frozen water on Mecury. Its onboard instruments have been studying Mercury in unprecedented detail since its historic arrival there in March 2011….

Two Multi-Billion Dollar Spy Satellites Looking for Use at NASA

NASA Seeks Concepts for Innovative Uses of Large Space Telescopes Former Spy satellites will be given to NASA in order to address NASA’s goals in astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary sciences, and…

Cassini Mission finds Pac-Man in Space

These thermal images captured by the Cassini mission have spotted features shaped like the 1980s Pac-Man video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys —…

Hubble and Spitzer Observatories Find Candidate for Most Distant Galaxy

(Source NASA)– By combining the power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature’s own natural “zoom lenses” in space, astronomers have set a new record for…

WERE DOOMED!! Milky Way in Head on Collision!!

  Pack up the car, get into the storm cellar, gather your survival gear were all doomed, the Preppers were right! If your still around in 4 billion years you…