Martian Sandstone Target "Windjana" Before and After

Windjana next target candidate for Mars Drilling

(NASA’) – Curiosity Mars rover performed a “mini-drill” operation Tuesday, April 29, on the rock target under consideration for the mission’s third sample-collection drilling. This preparatory activity produced a hole…

Commerial Crew Program

Russia threatens to stop ISS launches, what is next for Astronauts? IIS?

With the recent threat from the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia to renege on the commitment to send U.S. Astronauts to the International Space Station, what will the NASA do? To…

GOES 4_29_14

NOAA GOES Satellite Shows Recent Tornado System -Video

This animation of NOAA’s GOES-East satellite data shows the development and movement of the weather system that spawned tornadoes affecting the southern and eastern U.S. states on April 27-29, 2014….

Morpheus Lander Test bed

Morpheus Autonomus Lander Completes Free Flight Test

  A free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander was conducted April 30 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center using its recently installed autonomous landing and…

India Mangalyaan mars Orbiter

India’s Mars Orbiter Marks Half Way Point on it’s Journey

In it’s bid to join the U.S and Russia in successful mission to the red planet, India’s Mangalyaan Orbiter passed the half way point to Mars on April 09, 2014…

WISE J085510.83-071442.

New Brown Dwarf Solar System Found. Fourth Closest to Earth

We now have a new neighbor only 7.2 light years away. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest “brown…

Images of Stars which have planetary debris.

Hubble finds Stars with disks of planetary debris

(NASA) – With the Hubble Space Telescope, if astronomers missed seeing something once in their data, they haven’t missed it forever. Thanks to the wealth of information stored in the…

Iceberg B-31 acquired November 13, 2013

Iceberg B31, as big as a city, could move into shipping lanes

Knowledgeorb.com reported last November when Iceberg B31 broke off. This iceberg is as big as a city and is now could the enter shipping lanes. The iceberg is 33 kilometers long…