Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Detected
Asteroid 2013 MZ5 as seen by the University of Hawaii's PanSTARR-1 telescope (Credits: PS-1/UH). The Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the top... Read more →
IRIS Air Launch Puts Satellite on Track to Stare at Sun
PEGASUS rocket carrying IRIS is attached to the belly of a modified Lockheed L-1011 (Credits: NASA). NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph... Read more →
International Space Station Science Garage: EVA
International Space Station Science Garage is a new video series hosted by astronauts Mike Massimino and Don Pettit to talk about life and science on... Read more →
Russia and US Join Forces Against Space Threats
The hole found on the frozen surface of Lake Cherbakul, on February 15 (Credits: RT.com). The United States and Russia have decided to join forces... Read more →
Moon Base: Living and Working on the Moon
Establishing extraplanetary colonies has long been an underpinning of space exploration. Here is one look at how all the pieces fit together into a... Read more →
Dust to Dust: Research Scientist Solves Problems for Two Agencies
Spann established the Dusty Plasma Laboratory (pictured above) in the mid-90s to learn more about the dust on the surface of the Moon (Photo... Read more →