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Voyager 1 exits solar system, experiences massive changes in radiation levels

, Mar 20th 2013 Discuss [6]

We've talked about the Voyager 1 spacecraft in the past, and it's most known for being the farthest man-made object from the Earth, and it's been announced that the 1,600-pound space probe has exited our solar system, as well as the heliosphere beyond the influence of the Sun. However, the probe has been experiencing drastic changes in radiation levels since leaving the solar system. Read The Full Story

NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spies GRAIL crash location

, Mar 20th 2013 Discuss [4]

There are huge number of satellites and other spacecraft in orbit around the Earth and around other celestial bodies in our solar system. The point of all the spacecraft is to gather information to allow scientists and researchers to learn more about our world and the universe around us. Last year NASA crashed the twin GRAIL spacecraft into the side of a mountain on the moon. Read The Full Story

NASA: Slashed space budget leaves asteroid spotting in the dark

, Mar 20th 2013 Discuss [2]

Earth runs the risk of an unexpected asteroid strike because NASA's budget for identifying and tracking potential risk-rocks is woefully insufficient, science advisors have warned US Congress this week. The ominous news, in which lawmakers were told that - at current funding levels - it would take until 2030 to adequately catalog 90-percent of near-Earth objects ranging between 140m and 1km in width, was revealed at a hastily-convened hearing of the House Science Committee following the Russian meteor incident in mid-February. There, members of Congress were warned that praying might be the only defense should an unpredicted asteroid be spotted three weeks out from Earth. Read The Full Story

Curiosity back roving Mars in days after “straightforward” fix says NASA

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

NASA expects to have the Curiosity rover back up and exploring Mars "in a few days" time the space agency has announced, with the fix for the unexpected downtime "very straightforward" according to the mission lead. A software error was blamed for the rover being put into automatic fault-protection mode - freezing all activity - when a file was artificially inflated in size and thus failed a software check. Read The Full Story

Curiosity put back into safe mode due to software error

, Mar 18th 2013 Discuss [7]

Back on March 11, NASA was scheduled to apply two software patches to its Curiosity Mars rover after recovering from a problem with one of its on-board computers. Now the rover has run into another problem, this time with a software file error that is preventing it from performing most of its duties, though it remains in communication with the NASA team. Read The Full Story

Kepler’s Supernova remnant provides possible evidence of explosion

, Mar 18th 2013 Discuss [2]

Kepler's Supernova, which is named after German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was one of the more popular supernovas in the visible universe, and it's one of the more recent supernovas to have been visible to the naked eye at only 20,000 light years away from the Earth. Today, NASA posted up some recent findings of the supernova's explosion based on remnants. Read The Full Story

Galaxies produced stars shortly after Big Bang

, Mar 17th 2013 Discuss [126]

With the help of the Antarctic's South Pole Telescope and the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope, Scientists were able to discover something amazing in the field of Astronomy. The scientists discovered that there was a "baby boom" of stars very soon after the Big Bang. The scientists discovered stars 12 billion light years away, an interesting observation considering the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Read The Full Story

Keck Telescopes to seek funding on 20th anniversary

, Mar 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

The W.M. Keck Observatory, which has the two largest optical and infrared telescopes in the world, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week. Its twin Keck telescopes have been instrumental to finding exoplanets, exploring the universe, and observing galaxies. They are highly coveted telescopes, with scientists, who are working on research projects, only being able to use the telescope two days out of the entire year. Read The Full Story

Europe and Russia teaming up for mission to Mars

, Mar 15th 2013 Discuss [2]

NASA may have already landed several rovers on the surface of Mars, but that isn't stopping other countries from trying it themselves. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos have signed a deal to launch an orbiter in 2016 that will orbit the Red Planet, as well as plans to put a rover on Mars in 2018 as part of the ExoMars program. Read The Full Story

Massive ALMA observatory inaugurated in Chile

, Mar 13th 2013 Discuss [3]

The massive telescope ALMA, which stands for Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, went live back in October of 2011, snapping some images despite not yet being fully functional at the time. Although the telescope is still a work in process, with nine of the 66 antenna dishes still slated for activation that will take place this summer, the observatory was inaugurated today in Chile in a large ceremony. Read The Full Story

Scientists discover rare quasar triplet 9 billion light years away

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

A team of international researchers, lead by Emanuele Farina from the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, have discovered a rare, quasar triplet about 9 billion light years away from Earth. The quasar triplet has been named QQQ J1519+0627 and is only the second triplet to ever be found. The researchers believe that the galaxies that these quasars are a part of may be merging together in order to form one, enormous galaxy. Read The Full Story

Mars Curiosity rover finds evidence of habitable life on Mars

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [2]

Today during a NASA news briefing on the progress that the Curiosity rover is making on Mars, scientists have revealed evidence that point to conditions of habitable life on the Red Planet. An analysis of rock samples that were collected by the Curiosity rover shows that Mars could have supported living microbes at one point in time. Read The Full Story
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