Articles tagged with: NASA
The spacecraft successfully completed its fly by of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the moon's surface.
The close approach was designed to give some of Cassini's instruments, including the ion and neutral mass spectrometer, the chance to "taste" the jets themselves.
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
The all-male crew of a mock spaceship played a video action game to cool down when tensions rose during a 17-month isolation study simulating a voyage to Mars.
In their cramped, windowless module at a Moscow research facility, the earthbound pioneers split into teams — three Russians against two Europeans and one Chinese — and put their trust in Counter-Strike, said Russian Alexander Smoleyevsky, 32.
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Thursday, 29 Sep, 2011
In early October, a powerful meteor shower will come down to Earth. It will be brought by comet Giacobini-Zinner, which passes near our planet quite often.
However, meteors shower
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Tuesday, 8 Feb, 2011
Frightening new evidence begins to surface about the Earth's wobble, its effect on the climate and the beginning of a new Ice Age, heralded by a series of
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Thursday, 30 Dec, 2010
Mysterious UFOs have been spotted over Russia's southern Republic of Kalmykia. Several times this month hundreds in the city of Elista witnessed several unidentified flying objects at the
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Saturday, 25 Dec, 2010
Special services started establishing special departments for air defense troops, secret laboratories were organized to study the phenomenon.
UFO encounters became especially frequent in the middle of the 20th
A team of investigators led by University of Arizona graduate student Sarah Horst has approximated, in a French lab, atmospheric conditions on Saturn's moon Titan. Through a series
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Monday, 18 Oct, 2010
While scientists have long concluded that the universe is expanding, and will do so for an infinite period of time, the researchers say the very rules of physics
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Friday, 24 Sep, 2010
It is not hearsay, but a fact, that solar radiation can affect short-wave communications, disrupting satellite transmissions and disturbing cell phone, GPS, TV and radio reception, even electricity
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Sunday, 13 Jun, 2010
A tiny heatproof capsule which scientists hope contains some of the oldest dust in the universe will streak back to Earth and land in the Australian desert
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Friday, 16 Apr, 2010
Speaking at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where America' s moon missions originated decades ago, Obama said he was "100 percent committed to the mission of
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Tuesday, 13 Apr, 2010
A sudden geomagnetic storm, the strongest in the past 18 months, was caused by the Sun. The geomagnetic storm that began on April 5 still continues, although
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Friday, 26 Feb, 2010
Have you ever been lost in the woods? Have you ever
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Sunday, 15 Nov, 2009
A NASA scientist has condemned the doomsday film "2012" and launched a web site, "Ask an Astrobiologist," to quell the fears it is raising.
The film, now showing in
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Sunday, 25 Oct, 2009
NASA needs to return astronauts to the moon under current plans, NASA has picked the wrong destination with the wrong rocket.
A test-flight version of the rocket, the new
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Wednesday, 21 Oct, 2009
Pokaini forest is located not far from Riga, Latvia. In 1996 Ivar Viks, a scientist from Riga, told journalists about strange meteorological anomalies and mysterious features of local
