It is expected to be announced that NASA will cut funding for the exploration of the planet Mars after Congress cut its 2013 budget. However, a former high ranking NASA official calls the move “irrational and unjustified.”
Austrian adventurer and daredevil Felix Baumgartner wants to do what no one has done before: skydive out of a balloon 36.5 kilometers above the Earth – that’s 120,000 feet or approximately 22.7 miles in altitude.
On Friday, February 3, 2012, the state news agency of Iranian reported that its national space agency (Iranian Space Agency) successfully launched another mission into space, this time sending its Navid (Gospel) satellite into space with its Safir 1-B rocket.
Stephen Colbert, the host of "The Colbert Report", says he is a big fan of space and supports the "great things" NASA is doing on the International Space Station.
The Russians were forced to delay the next manned flight to the International Space Station when the descent module for its Soyuz spacecraft was accidently over-pressurized during its testing phase. Thus, three of the current crew members onboard the ISS will get to stay in space a month and half longer.
The U.S. space agency NASA releases the first video of the far side of the Moon. The cameras taking the video are part of a project by former astronaut Sally Ride. The project is geared to show students how interesting science is to learn.
American astronaut Shannon Lucid has retired from NASA after over three decades of being a NASA employee, including being an astronaut on the Russian space station Mir and the International Space Station.
The U.S. space agency NASA announced the release of its first multi-player online game Space Race Blastoff on Monday, January 30, 2012. The app is available on Facebook.
NASA has just released an image it is calling “Blue Marble 2012”, which the space agency is describing as the “most amazing high definition image of Earth.”
Canadian teenagers Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad bought an inexpensive weather balloon. They connected it to a Styrofoam box with several cameras and a Lego astronaut. And, then they filled the balloon with helium for an 80,000-foot ascent into the sky. See the rest of their story below.
The Russians launched its Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday January 25, 2012 (local time at the Kazakhstan launch site), with about 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment onboard for the ISS Expedition 30 crew.
A Russian scientist analyzed images taken by the Venera-13 spacecraft that landed on the planet Venus in 1982. He insists life exists on Venus based on strange looking objects that were seen changing positions. NASA thinks something is amiss.
Sunspot 1402 is getting ready to hit Earth, only three days after Sunspot 1401 impacted the magnetic field surrounding our planet. This one is a little more problematic.
According to reports coming out of Russia, the Russian space agency Roscosmos is interested in joining with the U.S. space agency NASA and the European Union’s space agency ESA for joint exploration of the Moon.
A triangular object seen in video taken by the NASA STEREO probe appears to show an alien object heading toward Earth. NASA scientists analyzed the images and have other, more rational, thoughts on the origin of this strange-looking space object.
The first commercial cargo ship (Dragon) planning to fly to the International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) will be delayed by nearly two months so engineers can perform additional testing.
An active sunspot erupted on the Sun on Thursday, January 19, 2012, and consequently a solar flare is heading in the direction of Earth, for an arrival two days later, on Saturday, January 21st.
An international team of scientists is preparing to photograph the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Just five years ago such a photograph of a black hole would have been technically impossible. Not so in 2012.
Montana students have won a NASA contest to rename twin probes that are currently orbiting about the Moon. The less-than-exiting names of GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B were renamed Ebb and Flow, respectively.
Even though the Russians know their Phobos-Grunt probe came down and landed somewhere along a track that goes over the Pacific Ocean, they really have not indicated that they know just where it landed.
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