Radiation

Chinese Use Space Radiation to Mutate Food Crops

By Merryl Azriel on September 4, 2012

A cucumber derived from space irradiated seeds (Credits: Guandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences). Exposure to radiation is one of the... Read more →

News

Russia Spends $1 Billion on New Cosmodrome While Agency Investigation Continues

By Merryl Azriel on September 4, 2012

Putin (second from right) inspecting a model of the new cosmodrome (Credits: cosmodromegovernment.ru). Russia began construction of the Vostochny... Read more →

Media1

Coronal Mass Ejection Causes Moderate Geomagnetic Storm

By Staff Writers on September 4, 2012

CME shockwave and accompanying ground current observed September 3 (Credits: Spaceweather.com). On August 31, a spectacular solar filament... Read more →

Media

Hundreds Honor Neil Armstrong at Memorial Services

By Staff Writers on September 3, 2012

On Friday, August 31, Neil Armstrong was remembered in a private ceremony in Cincinatti, Ohio that included family, fellow astronauts, and a naval... Read more →

News

New EVA Planned to Finish Power Module Installation

By Merryl Azriel on September 2, 2012

Astronaut Aki Hoshide on EVA august 30 (Credits: NASA). International Space Station Expedition 32 was only scheduled to host two spacewalks. The... Read more →

Destination Mars

Spelunking Robots May Aid Martian Caves Exploration

By Guillaume Houdu on September 2, 2012

View of a skylight that opens into a Martian cave at the Pavonis Mons volcano, as photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Credits:... Read more →