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A space telescope aimed at the sun has spotted a gigantic hole in the solar atmosphere — a dark spot that covers nearly a quarter of our closest star, spewing solar material and gas into space. The so-called coronal hole…
NASA Mission Discovers Particle Accelerator in Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts WASHINGTON, July 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions…
Confirmed, we have found the Apollo 11 rocket engine. That’s one small serial number on salvaged hardware, one giant leap for space history: Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos says markings on one of the rocket engine components recovered from the bottom…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from Saturn system will image the Earth between 2:27 and 2:42 PDT (5:27 and 5:42 p.m. EDT, or 21:27 and 21:47 UTC) Friday, July 19. Cassini will be nearly 900 million miles (nearly 1.5 billion kilometers) away…
The Boeing Company of Houston, a NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner, recently performed wind tunnel testing of its CST-100 spacecraft and integrated launch vehicle, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. The testing is part of NASA’s Commercial…
International Space Station, ISS, cosmonauts, Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko, opened the airlocks and stepped out into zero gravity to get to work. Their first task will be to install a new module that will study plasma waves and how…
Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket was rolled out to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at Wallops Flight Facility in preparation for a test flight targeted for later this month. Antares is designed to propel a Cygnus cargo spacecraft laden with…
Have you ever wondered what will happen to your tears if you cry in space? Here is Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield demonstrating the physics of tears in space. Can you cry in space? Sure, but Hadfield said “Tears…
Today also marks the first one-day launch to the International Space Station by a Soyuz spacecraft carrying a human crew — a historic first for the orbiting laboratory. NASA’s webcast of the launch will begin at 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930…
This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old….