Articles in the Category: Space
Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle
Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago.
Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980...
NASAs WISE Eye in the Sky
NASA launched a new satellite, called WISE, which stands for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. It’s mission? Find asteroids or comets that could potentially hit Earth and map the whole sky by October. KMGH reporter Corey Christiansen has the story.
NASA Medley of WISE Images
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in President Obama Science Policy, Space, Video on 02 17th, 2010 | No Comments
President Obama Speaks Live to Astronauts on International Space Station
With the recent extension of the World Wide Web outside of this world, space is just a click away. And taking full advantage of the new ability to live stream to astronauts orbiting Earth on the International Space Station, President Obama congratulates the team for installing the last piece of the...
NASA and GM Team Up to Build Robots
The Robonaut2 is being jointly developed by NASA and General Motors to help humans in space and on Earth. It’s the first step toward having supervised yet autonomous robots performing tasks in outer space and in automotive factories.
The R2 can lift four times as much as other robots and with...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, SciClips, Space, Uncategorized on 02 1st, 2010 | No Comments
Astrotweets Signal Internet Move to Space
Astronauts can order books on Amazon or watch movies on Netflix, even while orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station. NASA just hooked up the Internet last week and already the astronauts have been tweeting up a storm.
NASA also unveiled live streaming aboard the space station, starting...
Science Prepares for Alien Possibility
A two-day conference at the Royal Society in London called The Detection of Extra-terrestrial Life and The Consequences for Science and Society gathered top astronomers to discuss the possibility that some life form on another planet will likely be discovered within our lifetime.
The all-star lineup...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Backyard Science, SciClips, Space, citizen science on 01 21st, 2010 | No Comments
Help NASA Image Mars
Here’s your chance to make scientific history. NASA is inviting the public to help choose sites on Mars to point a high-powered camera as part of a visual survey of the Red Planet.
The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shot over 13,000 images already. Now NASA is opening...
Small Asteroid Buzzes Earth
The school bus sized chunk of space rock hurtled past Earth last week and a Utah astronomer caught the dot on video. It didn’t get dangerously close but did come within 80,000 miles.
Fast Flight to Mars with a Plasma Rocket
Mars is far away. For a manned spaceship to get there now under current rocket power, it would take about a year. But riding a plasma rocket will shorten the trip considerably — to just 39 days.
While Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia is not the hotbed of aerospace technology, a company there is building...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, SciClips, Space on 01 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Russia Takes Aim at Big Asteroid
The head of the Russian space agency surprised scientists recently when he announced that his country needs to start figuring out how to deflect a big asteroid that will pass very close to Earth in about 20 years.
When Apophis was discovered in 2004 NASA thought there was a slight chance that the big...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Space, Uncategorized on 12 30th, 2009 | No Comments
Final Frontier Goes Commercial
There are growing signs that outer space is going to become the domain of private enterprise. Since the U.S. space program began, it has been largely controlled by the federal government. But that’s all changing.
The first spaceport just broke ground in New Mexico. The first commercial spaceline...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 12 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Hubble Snaps Baby Pics of the Early Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope snaps new images of the oldest galaxies ever seen. A senior scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explains to WSJ’s Robert Lee Hotz and Simon Constable how he did it-and what it means.
The new infrared camera that was loaded onto the Hubble Telescope...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciClips, SciLebs, Space, Video on 12 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Virgin Galactic Blows Guests Away During Space Ship 2 Unveiling
VSS Enterprise
December 7 is a day that will now live in a new kind of infamy. It was the day that Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space company unveiled its new Space Ship 2 and almost blew 800 guests away — in hurricane-force winds — in the process.
Video of the destruction...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Podcast, RawAudio, SciClips, Space on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
Pluto’s Icy Underdog Status
Composite image of Pluto, courtesy Eliot Young (SwRI) et al., NASA
For three years, Pluto–the ninth planet–has been given the cold shoulder by the astronomy community, which demoted it to dwarf planet in 2006.
What is it about Pluto that tugs at our heartstrings?
MSNBC.com Science Editor...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 11 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Team Science Started the Internet and Powers the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider, a $6 billion particle accelerator, is so large that a recent status report lists 2,900 authors. Robert Lee Hotz reports on how the project is a prime example of how scientists are inventing new ways to foster teamwork through the Internet and shared databases around the world.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Moon Water Found–Now What?
Moon Water, courtesy of Babaloo.
After a lackluster lunar blast that was barely visible, scientists worried there might not be water on the moon. But after analyzing the mountain of preliminary data, NASA confirmed there is water–in the form of ice–just below the surface of the lunar poles.
This...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
2012 Hoax Debunked
2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site.
Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Engineering, Solar, Space, Video on 11 5th, 2009 | No Comments
Contest Begins Elevator Race to Space
Engineers compete and test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The AP’s John Mone on why leaving the Earth, may not require rocket science.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 3rd, 2009 | 7 Comments
Exoplanet Name Game
Most people don’t realize that since the advent of high-powered telescopes and a new method in planetary detection called radial velocity, over 400 new planets have been spotted orbiting distant stars. And it all began in 1995.
Now with new planet discoveries growing interest in finding Earth-like...
NASA Ares Test a Success
NASA is calling the test flight launch of its Ares 1-X rocket “the next step in human exploration.”
The 327-foot rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida this week as the first in new rocket design since the 1970s. The Ares series of manned rockets is going to replace the space shuttle...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 10 21st, 2009 | No Comments
32 New Extrasolar Planet
The European Space Agency has found 32 new planets orbiting around distant stars. And they did it not with a high-powered space telescope but with a very sensitive ground-based instrument located in South America.
Learn about how astronomers locate planets based on subtle wobbles in star movement.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 10 20th, 2009 | No Comments
Moon Plume Kicks up Scientific Data
Cabeus Crater, impact zone for LCROSS mission
When NASA smashed an expensive satellite and rocket into the moon, many people wondered why the space agency would do such a thing.
Then on October 9, with hundreds of thousands of people watching, the big plume of dirt and ice that would indicate a successful...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah
A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
