Media

NASA’s Asteroid Capturing Mission Concept

By Merryl Azriel on April 16, 2013

NASA's budget proposal for 2014 includes plans for a $105 million robotic asteroid retrieval mission. The mission involves scooping up a 5-7m... Read more →

Space Medicine

Scared of Cancer? Then Avoid Space Travel, New Study Suggests

By Tereza Pultarova on April 16, 2013

Astronauts in space are subject to high radiation doses that can cause serious harm to their health (Credits: NASA). There has never been any... Read more →

News

News Shorts: Putin Supports Baikonour, Antares Ready To Go and Skylab: The Sequel

By Phillip Keane on April 16, 2013

52 years after the legendary launch of Yuri Gagarin, Baikonour remains the most successful space port in the world (Credits: NASA). Putin Pledges... Read more →

Asteroids and Comets1

A Change of Heart in NEO Size of Interest?

By moonandback on April 15, 2013

Keck's asteroid capture concept, now part of NASA's budget proposal (Credits: Rick Sternbach/Keck Institute for Space Studies). I’ve been... Read more →

Media

Yuri’s Night Partiers Celebrate Space Around the Globe

By Merryl Azriel on April 15, 2013

A Yuri's Night cake in Abu Dhabi (Credits: Yuri's Night/Al Ain). Every year, April 12 is a day set aside to celebrate the wonders of having... Read more →

News

Russian Crowdsourcing Project Finds Missing Soviet Mars Probe

By Phillip Keane on April 15, 2013

  The first probe to successfully land on Mars may have been found by Russian space enthusiasts, using images from the NASA’s Mars... Read more →