Space Exploration

The Cost of Exploring Space: Film vs. Reality

By Staff Writers on February 1, 2013

They say that space really is the final frontier and the media (probably even more so than the scientists) love the fact that it's all still so... Read more →

Interplanetary Contamination and Extraterrestrial Life

Can “UFO Sightings” Help ISS?

By Matteo Emanuelli on January 31, 2013

Alleged UFOs near ISS (Credits:danielofdoriaa/Youtube). Unidentified flying objects (UFO) are always tickling the imaginations of many people. Now,... Read more →

News

Third Time Lucky For South Korean Space Launch

By Matteo Emanuelli on January 31, 2013

The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 successfully blasts off from Naro Space Center (Credits: Yonhap). South Korea successfully launched its first... Read more →

Media

Challenger Astronaut’s Brother Recalls Boundary-Breaking Childhood

By Staff Writers on January 30, 2013

 Astronaut Ronald E. McNair died on the Challenger space shuttle 27 years ago this week, a mission specialist on his second spaceflight. McNair's... Read more →

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Superconducting Magnets to Protect Spacecraft from Radiation

By Siddharth Raval on January 30, 2013

While on Earth, the planet protects us from space radiation and cosmic rays with its magnetic field. NASA scientists are now working on an analogous... Read more →

News

Cosmos 1484 Reenters Atmosphere over Eastern United States

By Michael J. Listner on January 30, 2013

The Meteor satellite (Credits: Encyclopedia Astronautica). Cosmos 1484, an Earth resources satellite launched by the Soviet Union, reentered the... Read more →