NASA Is Testing An Underwater Rover For Testing Icy Moons

TECH & INNOVATION 12.06.2019 08:37 AM

This article talks about on how NASA will be testing an underwater rover for testing icy moons. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) It is going to take a lot more than paddling to explore the oceans, which is hidden below the icy surfaces of the most intriguing moons of some of the solar system.

What Happens When Andromeda Galaxy Crashes Into The Milky Way?

12.05.2019 08:10 AM

This article talks about on what could possibly happen when Andromeda Galaxy crashes into the Milky Way.

Dust Storms May Have Caused the Disappearance of Water from the Red Planet

12.05.2019 07:28 AM

Astronomers believed that these dust particles once trapped water vapor and had used these dust towers like an elevator to rise to the planet's atmosphere where solar radiation would eventually break their molecules apart.

Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Appears Ghostly in New Images Captured

12.04.2019 09:12 AM

Astronomers are taking advantage of Borisov's visit to obtain information about the building blocks of planets in other systems.

Astronaut Snoopy Rides Aboard the International Space Station

12.04.2019 09:05 AM

Astronaut Snoopy has been NASA's mascot since 1968, a product of a 51-year partnership between the Space Agency and Peanut, first to promote safety in human spaceflight and in recent years, to use the famous cartoon beagle to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and encourage children to be interested in those fields.

Super Guppy Transports Orion Spacecraft to NASA's Plum Brook Station for Testing

11.28.2019 10:37 AM

Super Guppy is a massive aircraft. Its cargo area alone measures 25 feet in diameter and 111 feet in length.

BRUIE is NASA's Solution to Finding Life in Oceanic Worlds

11.27.2019 10:00 AM

If it becomes successful in approaching these water worlds, BRUIE can help scientists learn a lot about the topography of the underside of the ice found in these satellites, including how they were formed and its effects on the immediate environment since the ice have the ability to trap gases either from biological or geological processes.

Space Hotel is Set To Launch In 2025 and Will Give the Ultimate Space Experience

11.22.2019 07:15 AM

Private company The Gateway Foundation is designing a space hotel that can take its passengers in space and experience the life that is only seen in science fiction movies

SpaceX Successfuly Takes First Steps to Space Transportation

11.18.2019 08:44 AM

The success of this test launch is considered the first step to flying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station starting 2020.

NASA in Hot Seat as Watchdog Finds Boeing Received Unnecessary Payments

11.18.2019 08:43 AM

Unfair treatment by NASA to one space commercial vehicle provider, as reported by a NASA watchdog NASA is alleged to have overpaid payments with its multibillion-dollar contract with Boeing to build U.

Spaceflight Triggers Structural Changes in the Brain of Astronauts

11.16.2019 06:41 AM

With the help of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina observed how the human brain adapts to extreme conditions such as the microgravity environment outside of Earth.

Scientists May Have Figured Out the Origins of Solar Spicules

11.16.2019 06:24 AM

Prior to this study, there are previous findings that also suggested that magnetic reconnections can also be the reason behind larger outbursts such as coronal jets, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections.

Jezero Crater Hosts Rich Amounts of Hydrated Silica—a Mineral Perfect for Preserving Biosignatures

11.15.2019 07:46 AM

Researchers from Brown University developed a technique that will help scientists find rare and hard-to-detect mineral data taken from the orbiting spacecraft.

NASA Spots Space Rock that is Set to Be Near Earth Before Christmas

11.15.2019 06:47 AM

A massive asteroid was spotted by NASA and it is set to hit Earth's orbit five days before Christmas

Brace Yourselves: Mercury is Here

11.11.2019 07:32 AM

This year, the planet Mercury will take at least five hours to complete its transit, making first contact with the sun at 7:15 AM.

Unsolved Mystery: Scientists are Still Debating Whether Pluto is a Planet or Not

11.08.2019 08:26 AM

In order for a celestial body to be a planet, it should become gravitationally dominant with no other celestial body close to its size except for some of its satellites which, unfortunately, Pluto cannot.

NASA's TESS Spacecraft Presents Panoramic View of Exoplanets

11.08.2019 08:18 AM

In the panoramic view, there are at least 29 exoplanets captured and more or less 1000 candidate planets.

NASA Plans to Re-Visit Pluto Through a New Spacecraft

11.06.2019 08:40 AM

The spacecraft will also be designed with the right instrumentation for sizing up the glaciers and determine their depth.

Boeing Tests Starliner Capsule Launch Abort System

11.06.2019 08:10 AM

The pad abort test was done on Launch Complex 23 at the White Sands Missiles Range, New Mexico. The launch was scheduled at 7:15 in the morning.

The Mars Helicopter is Set to Launch with the Mars 2020 Rover

11.05.2019 08:53 AM

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is geared up for their expedition to Mars this coming 2020. As a part of this project, NASA asks the question: "What will happen if we bring an aerial vehicle to Mars?" The answer is in the development of the Mars Helicopter.

Jessica Meir Snaps a Photo of Israel and Dedicates it to Her Late Father

11.05.2019 08:34 AM

She posted pictures she captured of Israel from the International Space Station and dedicates it to her father.