NASA has come to what may seem like a surprising conclusion, ice in Antarctica isn’t shrinking, just the opposite, it has actually expanded to record levels. This challenges the commonly held narrative that global warming… Antarctica Adding Snow, Not Losing it According to NASA
Sometimes we wonder if life on Mars could ever be a real possibility. NASA is exploring that idea and asking for public input. The organization is doing this through a competition called the In Situ… Life on Mars? NASA looking for your suggestions
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just returned its first color images of Pluto’s atmosphere last week, revealing that the atmospheric hazes are blue. From NASA.gov: The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the… Water Ice and Blue Skies found on Pluto
When the Smithsonian Institution took the small step of launching a Kickstarter campaign to save the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the first moonwalk, there was a giant leap of donations. The museum reached its… Skyrocketing Donations Save The First Spacesuit Worn On The Moon
Today, NASA’s Kepler mission identified the first promising candidate of “Earth 2.0”, aka a planet that might be able to sustain life as we know it. The exoplanet is approximately 60% larger than our Earth,… NASA finds plausible “Earth 2.0”
On Sunday night, an asteroid with a core containing platinum said to be worth $5 trillion passed within 1.5 million miles of Earth, as researchers drooled over the possibility of one day mining space for… $5 Trillion Asteroid Passes Earth Amid Talk Of Mining Space
A day after New Horizons first successful flyby, images have returned to us revealing ice mountains up to 11,000 ft high on Pluto’s surface. Absence of craters means that the surface is relatively young, no more than 100 million… New Horizons Flyby Shows Ice Mountains
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to NASA TV, you’ll see the last two daily briefings from the New Horizons/Pluto Missions. What will we see? The atmosphere (pardon the pun) is abuzz with excitement.… Two more days until we see Pluto