Posts Tagged ‘space news’
Voyager 1 Leaving Our Solar System (Video)
Launched in 1977 Voyager 1 traveled through our solar system capturing some of the best data and images ever recorded in space exploration and is soon leaving the outer most boundaries of our solar system. It is now nearly ...
NASA Says Life On Mars Existed In Ancient Times
While this is not official news that life has been discovered outside of our own little tiny planet, it certainly backs up what most scientist now agree on. We are not alone. The universe has the potential to be full o...
Is 670 million mph Fast? Said the guy who is terrible at judging speed
This illustration, released by NASA, shows a supermassive black hole in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1365. A study published Thursday in the journal Nature calculated the spin rate of the black hole and found it’s rotating cl...
Hear the Russian Meteor Blast
You have seen the meteor strike from about 1000 angles and dash cams. Now you can hear the blast. Pretty amazing actually… The signal was filtered and sped up 135 times to make it audible to human ears, according to t...
Destroying Asteroids with Sun-Powered Laser Array
Wow that sounds awesome. Like a Bruce Willis movie or something. What it is in reality is scientists’ plan to save the Earth from any asteroids. Russia, as depressing as it is, had some attention and excitement online w...
Anyone have a really really big net?
The asteroid that is about to buzz Earth’s tower is worth some cash. $195 billion, space miners say It’s a lot of money. Foxnews.com (YUCK) has the full story: The space rock set to give Earth a historically close s...
Huge Surprise! News Anchor Asks A Dumb Question (Video)
So by now you have heard the news of the Asteroid giving us a close fly by this week. How close? About 17,000 miles. On a global scale that is pretty damn close. We are in no danger of being hit. Even if we were the asteroid (2...
Curiosity begins first drilling on Mars
The Curiosity rover began the historic drilling on Mars on February 6th. Said on NASA scientist on the Curiosity team: “We be drillin that mutha!” I can not stress enough how cool this is. This man made robot that...
Earth is Habitable, But Just Barely
An updated model for identifying what is known as the “Habitable Zone” for life on other planets puts our little Earth just on the edge. A few 100,000 miles more and we are toast, or cold toast. Some guys much s...
Deep Space Industries | Asteroid Mining
Interested in a mining job? Interested in a mining job IN SPACE!? Don’t miss the video below the story as well. Check out the story from gizmag.com (Source: DSI) The first DSI spacecraft is the Firefly. According to a c...
Earth 2 Discovered and It’s Close | Tau Ceti
You see this story more often lately. A planet that is in another solar system that is in a habitable zone around that solar system’s star. This one is different. Tau Ceti is only 12 light-years away. In cosmic terms,...
SpaceX launches first commercial flight into space
Ok this might be a BIG addition but it’s going on my Christmas list. A flight to space. A flight to the International Space Station. Yeah. I’ve said this many times now on other post involving space exploration, I...
New Black Hole Discovered
It’s coming right for us!!!! Not really, if anything we would be heading towards it anyway. There was a new one discovered. It’s only 20,000 light years away. It would take a pretty long time to get there. Maybe eve...
Our Sun is Perfect – It’s more perfectly round than anything else in the natural world
HA! Take that other universes! I realize the statement they are making is pretty bold considering how big the Universe is and how would we know it is the sun is the “most perfect” naturally occurring sphere. I t...
Watch the Mars Rover landing live!
This answers my question from a previous post (see that one here). YES we will be able to see this landing live. If you are in NY you can just head down to Time Square and watch it. No matter where you are you can watch it LIVE...
Curiosity one week from crashing OR landing on Mars
As a space nerd I am super excited about this mission. I have a feeling the first images will be of some alien posing for the camera, possibly doing the “duck face” Scientist (much smarter than us unless you are one...
