New: Tuesday, February 14 2017

NASA will continue tapping the private sector to fund space exploration efforts under President Trump, marking a continuation in policy that first began under former president Barack Obama. "Public-private partnerships are the future of space ...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of newly developed Tropical Cyclone Dineo in the Mozambique Channel on Feb. 13, 2017. Madagascar is to the east of the ...

So, engineers at Team Corporation in Burlington, Washington built a new, large and advanced shaker table system at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, especially for testing Webb. "The new "Vibration Test Systems" simulates the ...

Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington, commented, “The development of advanced life support technologies will allow NASA to establish improved capabilities for future deep space, ...

As NASA continues to develop its next Mars rover, the space agency also has the important job of figuring out where to put the vehicle on the Red Planet. It's a big decision since the future robot — known as the Mars 2020 rover — will be tasked with ...

The space agency is putting together plans to send a lander to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons and perhaps the most likely place to harbour extraterrestrial life anywhere near us. But first it will have to work out how it can actually land on a surface ...

Measuring approximately 200 meters (660 feet) wide by 400 meters (1,310 feet) long — which, by the way, is taller than the Empire State Building — asteroid 2015 BN509 has been deemed “potentially hazardousâ€� by NASA. This means the object's orbit ...

NASA's Spirit rover, which launched in 2003 and became inactive in 2010, operated in the Gusev crater. If this becomes the target of a second rover mission, then we could learn more about the watery history of the region and the possible presence of a ...

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has always amazed us with its discoveries and findings from its missions in space. In the past, they've set missions to the moon, to Mars and even to Jupiter, but now, NASA is on to something even ...

Moore, dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, had been working on the same climate data project since 2010, submitting the proposal to NASA several times in a variety of forms and always being answered with a rejection, he said.

exoplanets, spotting alien words, exoplanet detection observations, radial velocity method, HIRES spectrometer The virtual mountain of data was gathered as part of a two-decade radial velocity planet-hunting programme that uses a spectrometer called ...

No matter where you place a conventional security camera, the chances are that you'll have a blind spot or two. Not so with the Smanos UFO, which has a fish-eye 180-degree lens, similar to that of the Samsung Gear 360. This allows the Smanos to capture ...

Scientists are descending on the Aloha State to gain new insights into volcanic activity and coral reef health there.

An alien vessel landed quietly on St Peter's square in Rome, a hatch opened and two little grey men with dazzling smiles appeared. They were promptly granted an audience with the Pope. After a brief discussion about the weather, the Pope said, “I know ...

Extraterrestrials and UFOs are a very hot topic right now, and have been for quite some time, especially within the past few years. Why? Partly because it's human nature to ponder the unknown and the mysterious, but it's also in large part due to the ...

The movie studio Blumhouse Productions has become known for doing less with more. Namely, turning low-budget flicks — think “Paranormal Activity,� “The Purge� franchise and indie sensation “Whiplash� -- into blockbuster hits. So what's the formula?

After a Boeing representative visited MIT in 2016, Guinn accepted her dream job with company working on NASA projects. She works with the structural analysis and design team at Boeing's Huntsville, Ala. location on school breaks and puts in about 20 ...

After a Boeing representative visited MIT in 2016, Guinn accepted her dream job with company working on NASA projects. She works with the structural analysis and design team at Boeing's Huntsville, Ala. location on school breaks and puts in about 20 ...

Starting this week, Earthlings and other species with the right credit rating will start moving into that UFO-like condo which hovers next to the Disraeli Freeway. Condo has drivers doing double takes on Disraeli Overpass. The unusual circular ...

In the modern society we tend to think of February as the proverbial “love month.� In ancient times, this month was named after the Roman God of the Underworld and Purification, Februus. What does this have to do with UFOs and the month of February?

"On my way home to the US last weekend, I was detained by Homeland Security and held with others who were stranded under the Muslim ban," Bikkannavar wrote in a Facebook post shared by a friend on Twitter. "I initially refused, since it's a (NASA ...

... This kind of eclipse happens between 0 and 9 times per century on average. The last one took place on March 14, 2006. The next is due in August 29, 2059; A total lunar eclipse of the moon happens when the inner part of Earth's shadow, called the ...