NASA Records Most Powerful Lunar Meteorite Impact
The March 17 lunar impact was equivalent in brightness to a magnitude 4 star (Credits: NASA). On March 17, NASA lunar observing telescopes... Read more →
As ATV Launch Approaches, Damage to Docking Sensor Still to be Assessed
View of the docking port on the Zvezda module marking the area potentially impacted by Progress M-19M in April 2013 (Credits: Roscosmos/Anatoly... Read more →
Growing Plants in Lunar And Martian Soil
Is the Red Planet capable of sustaining plant growth? (Credits: NASA) For long duration space exploration missions on the Moon and Mars, growing... Read more →
Kepler Telescope in Safe Mode After Reaction Wheel Failure
Kepler has spotted more than 2,700 potential exoplanets in 4 years (Credits: NASA). NASA’s Kepler space telescope has once again entered safe... Read more →
A Week of Anniversaries
A model of Sputnik 3 hangs in the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics (Credits: Енин Арсений). On... Read more →
The Unpredictable End of Skylab
NASA's Skylab program paved the way for the International Space Station (Credits: NASA). Putting all the information together, one might think... Read more →