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Today, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 were named. The Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita from Japan and Arthur B. McDonald from Canada “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have…
NASA said last weekend that it will make a major announcement about a discovery in Mars on Monday. The time has come. NASA revealed that there is liquid water found on the surface of Mars. During a news conference at…
Mars Curiosity Rover now celebrates its third year anniversary. It first arrived on Mars on August 6, 2012. The car-sized robot is tasked with exploring the climate and geology of the planet, as well as performing planet habitability studies. VIDEO:…
According to University of Northumbria solar researchers, their climate model shows a pending “mini ice age” set for the 2030s. The little ice age perios will mirror freezing conditions that occurred during the late 17th century. Prof Valentina Zharkova said…
A Pluto flyby happening next week as the New Horizons Spacecraft will reach the dwarf planet Pluto on July 14, 2015. The New Horizons probe spacecraft was built and operated by Johns Hopkins University, JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory. It will…
If you lived on one of the moons of Pluto, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows that two…
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have started work on Landsat 9, planned to launch in 2023, which will extend the Earth-observing program’s record of land images to half a century. The Landsat program has provided accurate measurements of…
Mars has liquid water just below its surface, according to new measurements by Nasa’s Curiosity rover. ** Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA’s Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put…
Weather is looking fine for the launch today of SpaceX CRS-6. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft is targeted for 4:33 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Watch the launch…
Alien life will be found within the next decade, says NASA Chief Scientist, Ellen Stofan. “I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to…