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 →
How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
Shuttle Discovery flying on top of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Credits: NASA). Now that Discovery is safely delivered to the... Read more →
Investigation on Envisat Continues
Source: ESA. On 15 April, the French space agency CNES rotated the Pleiades Earth observation satellite to capture this image of Envisat. At a... Read more →