Plutonium Production Restart Prepared
A Plutonium-238 pellet used for Radioisotope Thermal Generators (Credits: US Department of Energy). NASA has powered deep space missions with... Read more →
Deflectors at Full: Earth Prepared for Sun’s Maximum Fury
In 2013, the Sun's cycle of activity will peak. An increase in flare producing sunspots will in all likelihood bombard Earth with geomagnetic storms.... Read more →
Air Bursts Present a New Option to Handle Space Debris
Another innovative approach for mitigation of space junk orbiting the Earth was introduces recently under the NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts... Read more →
New Company to Mine Asteroids
Rendering of the JAXA probe Hayabusa hovering over Itokawa. Hayabusa is the only spacecraft to have landed on an asteroid (Credits:... Read more →
Meteorite Explodes Over Western United States
At 8 AM local time on April 22, a sonic boom resounded across large sections of California and Nevada, prompting calls to emergency centers... Read more →
Earth Observations From Space Station
NASA Public Affairs Officer Amiko Kauderer interviews Cynthia Evans, Space Station Associate Progam Scientist for Earth Observations, as NASA... Read more →