A mile-wide asteroid has been photographed by a team of NASA scientists as it moves silently millions of miles from Earth, international news sites reported on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. According to reports, NASA‘s Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, California was used by astronomers in NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to capture three new radar [...]
The Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, October 7, 2012, as shown in the video below. The CRS-1 mission marks the first of at least 12 SpaceX missions to the ISS for the cargo resupply mission with NASA. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launch Image Credit: [...]
Updated: October 10, 2012 2:50 p.m. Read Shiny object on Mars spotted by NASA rover Curiosity (Photo) NASA‘s Curiosity rover mission reportedly discovered possible signs of water on Mars while it was driving on the Red Planet. Scientists are now studying the clues, which were seen in the rocks between the Gale Crater and a [...]
The so-called current farthest galaxy known as MACS1149-JD has been recently spotted with the help of cosmic lens, which astronomers claim to be the current earliest known and most distant galaxy ever identified. According to Space.com on Wednesday, September 19, 2012, this recently discovered galaxy, which was believed have existed when the universe was about [...]
NASA‘s Kepler mission announced on on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 its first time discovery of two planets with two suns, which is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus; which is almost a year after a planet with two suns called Kepler-16b was discovered. According to NASA on its official website that day, astronomers [...]
Will.i.am‘s song “Reach for the Stars” was transmitted to Mars and was beamed back to Earth via NASA‘s Mars rover Curiosity, which is first time in the history. Will.i.am, speaking at NASA Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As noted by NASA on its official website on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, Will.i.am‘s song “Reach for the Stars” was [...]
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at the age of 82. Armstrong, who landed on the moon on July 20, 1969 along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins via Apollo 11, underwent heart surgery this month, and his family announced his death on his [...]
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lander exploded on Thursday, August 9, 2012 during its first test flight at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), as shown in the video below. NASA moon lander on fire Image Credit: NASA video According to a statement by NASA on its official website that day, the unmanned Project [...]
Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA‘s so-called Mohawk guy, as shown in the photo below, has gone viral right after the Mars rover landing on Monday, August 6, 2012; as tons of Twitter users were amazed with his hair style and could not help but voicing out their observations online. Some of them can be read below. As [...]
Updated: August 7, 2012 2:45 a.m. Read Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA’s Mohawk guy goes viral after Mars rover Curiosity landing (Photo) Mars rover Curiosity has landed successfully at around 10:31 p.m. PDT on Sunday, August 5, 2012 (1:31 a.m. EDT, Monday, August 6), with NASA releasing its first photo of Gale Crater of the Red Planet, [...]