NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Lands Successfully on Planet
NASA/JPL-Caltech(PASADENA, Calif.) — NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity Rover has landed on the surface of the red planet following an eight-month, 352-million-mile journey. NASA says it received a signal from the rover after a plunge through th…
Mars Rover On Final Approach for Landing Sunday Night
iStockphoto/Thinkstock (NEW YORK) — NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover closed in on its target Sunday, all systems go for a landing on Mars late Sunday night (Monday morning at 1:31 a.m. EDT). If there’s anxiety at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, …
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Closer to Landing
NASA/JPL-Caltech(NEW YORK) — NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover came closer and closer to its target on Friday, with all systems go for a landing on Mars Monday at 1:31 a.m. EDT.Curiosity is the largest, most expensive and most ambitious Mars probe sent by t…
Asteroid Hunters Announce First Private Deep Space Mission
Artist’s Rendering. Hemera/Thinkstock(MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) — Asteroids could be heading for Earth right now, and the world should not have to live in fear. At least that’s the message of a group of scientists and former astronauts working on …
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Flies by Earth
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A 1,650-foot wide asteroid passed right by Earth Thursday night, and a bevy of astronomers watched it live via an online streaming camera.The asteroid, known as 2012 LZ1 is roughly the size of a city block, big enough t…
‘Supermoon’: Large Full Moon to Shine This Weekend
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Saturday night, if the full moon rising in the East, strikes you as unusually large, you’ll be right. It will loom larger than usual. Though it’s hardly a scientific term, it will be what’s known as a “supermoon.” If…
James Cameron, Google Executives, Billionaires to Mine for Asteroids?
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Film director James Cameron, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and billionaire Ross Perot Jr. along with a number of other incredible minds plan to take on outer space.
“If you …
Phobos-Grunt: Failed Russian Mars Probe Falls to Earth
Comstock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe returned ignominiously to Earth Sunday, said the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the U.S. Sp…