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Earth-Size, Potentially Habitable Planets Are Abundant: NASA's Kepler FInds
By Jennifer Broderick | Nov 04, 2013 07:28 PM ESTAn estimated one in every five sun-like stars is orbited by a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet. This is great news as it means the universe has plentiful real estate that could be hospitable to life as we know it, according to a new analysis of observations by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
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Giant Supervolcanoes Believed to Have Rocked Mars
By Jennifer Broderick | Oct 02, 2013 02:33 PM EDTNew research suggests that the surface of ancient Mars may have been the site where many giant super volcanoes occurred naturally over time, unleashing a massive eruption that dramatically altered the appearance of the Red Planet.
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NASA Pushing to Send 3D Printer into Space in 2014
By Jennifer Broderick | Sep 30, 2013 07:59 PM EDTNASA is working tirelessly to put a 3D printer in space as soon as by fall 2014. The agency rationalizes the move as a drastically necessarily to cut down the downtime related to the creation and/or replacement of tools and other parts and also vital in aiding research experiments conducted by astronauts.
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Water Discovered on Mars, Could There be Life on the Red Planet?
By Jennifer Broderick | Sep 28, 2013 03:01 AM EDTNASA's Curiosity Rover has found water-embedded soil on Mars and a mature, almost Earthlike, geology, the space agency reported on Friday.
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Curiosity Rover Discovers No Life on Mars
By Jennifer Broderick | Sep 20, 2013 05:03 PM EDTCuriosity rover's inability to find methane on Mars contradicts previous theories of life on the planet.
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Get Paid to Sleep: NASA Offering $18000 for Volunteers
By Cheri Cheng | Sep 20, 2013 04:05 PM EDTNASA is offering up to $18000 for volunteers to sleep 70 days straight in their latest experiment.
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Frog Caught in Midair as NASA’s LADEE Spacecraft Launches [PHOTO & VIDEO]
By Jennifer Broderick | Sep 15, 2013 12:15 PM EDTNASA launched its latest moon orbiter last week and the internet is buzzing about a peculiar event that happened that same day. A frog was captured photobombing the launch of NASA's LADDEE spacecraft.
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NASA: Voyager 1 Entered Interstellar Space, Some Scientists Still Divided
By Jennifer Broderick | Sep 12, 2013 11:04 PM EDTNASA confirmed Thursday that Voyager 1 has left our solar system and entered interstellar space more than a year ago, after travelling for 36 years in space.
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NASA Launches Drones To Study Storms
By Counsel & Heal Writer | Sep 12, 2013 09:33 AM EDTNASA scientists are using former military surveillance drones to help them understand more about how tropics storms intensify. They believe that the study can ultimately save lives by improving the accuracy of the forecast.
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Happy Birthday Curiosity Rover! NASA Releases Condensed Video of Curiosity's Exploration
By Jennifer Broderick | Aug 06, 2013 12:11 AM EDTA year ago, Curiosity Rover landed safely on Mars and today is its first birthday.
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NASA Still Searching for Cause of Flooded Helmet, Astronaut Says He Felt like a Goldfish
By Jennifer Broderick | Jul 18, 2013 04:13 PM EDTJust two days after experiencing perhaps the most terrifying experience of his life, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano shared what it was like to have his helmet filled with water during a space walk earlier on Tuesday.
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13 Inch Talking Robot to Be Sent to Space this Summer, Watch Cute Video of Japanese Robot Kirobo
By Jennifer Broderick | Jun 27, 2013 08:23 PM EDTThe next person to go the International Space Station this summer will not actually be a human, but a little humanoid robot sent by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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NASA Needs Help Tracking Down Asteroids, Up for the Challenge?
By Jennifer Broderick | Jun 20, 2013 12:32 AM EDTThe White House and NASA are launching a rather ambitious plan that asks the public to help in searching and hunting down asteroids that may one day hit Earth, NASA said in a statement.
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Astronauts Going to Mars at Serious Risk of Cancer Radiation: Study
By Jennifer Broderick | May 30, 2013 08:12 PM EDTAre we ready to send astronauts to Mars? NASA says no after new research showed it would pose serious health risks to astronauts as they would be exposed to radiation levels that exceed current U.S. exposure limits during a roundtrip to space.
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NASA, Google Buy $15 Million Quantum Computer from Canadian Company
By Jennifer Broderick | May 19, 2013 04:48 PM EDTGoogle and NASA have bought a quantum computer which is 3,600 times faster than conventional computers called the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QAIL).
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