CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) physicists and engineering located in Geneva, Switzerland, is researching the possibility of developing a superconducting shield to protect astronauts against radiation during deep space expeditions. Astronauts are vulnerable to radiation from the sun during deep space expeditions because of the absence of a...
Three years after Curiosity rover landed on Mars, NASA has introduced two new online mars research tools that will assist citizens, scientists, and students study the Red Plant and invite the public to help with its Journey to Mars. The tools are called Mars Trek and Experience Curiosity. Mars...
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. Dubbed “Kepler-452b,” it is the smallest planet discovered to date orbiting in the habitable zone, the area around a star like Earth’s sun where liquid water could pool on its surface....
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it approaches perihelion (its closest point to the sun during its orbit). On July 29, while the spacecraft orbited at a distance of 116 miles (186 kilometers) from the comet, it observed the most...
Do you feel like an astronaut? Well then, take a cruise over the dwarf planet Ceres recently studied by the Dawn spacecraft, a mission of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California. The video is quite incredible. You’ll feel like Buzz Aldrin as you fly over a prominent mountain with bright...
Periodically we have reported on NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program, which seeks out proposals from commercial industries on development of new technologies that will assist in future space missions. The selected proposals address a range of visionary concepts, including metallic lithium combustion for long-term robotics operations, submarines that...
It has been a little more than 24 hours after researchers started receiving data and images from New Horizons. New images include icy mountains on Pluto and a new close up of the dwarf planet’s largest moon, Charon. Researchers say that the mountain range has peaks as high as 11,000...
The process of manufacturing a rocket engine is complicated at best. Why do you think they call it “rocket science?” However, there are students from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) that are taking the manufacturing process to new levels. They are making rocket parts using a 3D-printer. First...
The European Space Agency is involved in two programs meant to attract students to study space. The first, known as “Fly Your Thesis,” provides masters and PhD students from ESA Member and Cooperating states to design, build and fly scientific or technology-related experiments in microgravity. These are the conditions...
In late January NASA announced their plans for an “asteroid redirection”. Yes, just like a traffic cop might wave a white-gloved hand to steer motorists away from a road hazard, they’re going to redirect the path of a giant piece of space rubble … Pardon? Last week, I...
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