NASA Designing Submarine to Explore Hydrocarbon Seas of Saturn’s Moon Titan
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit (-184 Celsius) and the ocean is made of methane and ethane. Washington State…
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit (-184 Celsius) and the ocean is made of methane and ethane. Washington State…
As NASA scientists explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of…
Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Texas have been busy putting together a prototype of a deep space station, which has been essentially…
Over the last few weeks NASA’s Curiosity rover has been recording weather measurements and soil samples with its Chemistry and Camera instrument laser; now Curiosity…
Set to launch in 2016, NASA’s new Discovery-class mission, called InSight, will probe Mars at new depths by looking into the deep interior of Mars…
A team of MIT engineers have developed a new propulsion system that uses microscopic tips that, when stimulated with voltage, emit tiny beams of ions,…
As the world readies for Curiosity’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” landing on Mars, William Shatner walks us through the process and details in this 4…
With the hope of bringing explorers to nearby asteroids, Mars, and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our solar system, NASA’s Space Launch…
Designed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a new amplifier using titanium nitride and niobium titanium nitride…
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft’s long-awaited entry into…
This video shares the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars, which is scheduled to occur at approximately 10:31 p.m….
Designed to help scientists understand why the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate, ESA’s Euclid mission received final approval and will move into the construction…
A joint effort between NASA and General Motors to improve robotic technology and capabilities for future space exploration platforms has led to Robonaut 2, NASA’s…
The NASA Dawn mission is receiving 40 extra days to explore Vesta and scientists plan to make the most out of it. They hope to…
NASA wants to plan a space outpost parked near the Lagrange point, where the Earth’s and moon’s gravitation fields nearly cancel each other out, making…
The solar-powered Juno spacecraft that was launched in 2011 to improve our understanding of Jupiter’s formation and evolution just completed the mission’s first trajectory correction…
Gorillas use human-life facial expressions to communicate with each other, however, the Western Lowland gorilla equivalent of a grin means something completely different, as psychologists…
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch. The NuSTAR was shipped to the Vandenberg Air Force Base…