Tag Archives: Space

  • News / Offbeat

    Mars rover Curiosity just got hipper

    “Reaching for the Stars” by Will.I.Am was the first song to make an interplanetary musical trip.

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    NASA: Arctic sea ice shrinks to new low in satellite era

    NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center say the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades since consistent satellite observations of the polar cap began.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog

    NASA: Curiosity lands on Mars

    Car-Size rover lands safely in Gale Crater beside 3-mile-tall Martian mountain.

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    August is a Blue Moon month

    Two full moons occur within the calendar month of August 2012.

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    Blue moon in August, won’t happen again until 2015

    August will yield two full moons. The next time this happens will be in 2015.

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    NASA: Mars landing sky show

    Go outside after sunset on August 5th and look west for a triangle of first-magnitude lights. The vertices are Mars, Saturn, and Spica.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog CuriosityScheduledLanding

    NASA: Curiosity nears daring landing on Mars

    Curiosity is scheduled to land at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6).

  • News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog PlutoMoons

    NASA: Hubble discovers a fifth moon orbiting Pluto

    A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.

  • News / Offbeat / Weather / Weather Blog Project 1640

    Advanced telescope imaging system searches for other suns and orbiting planets

    Telescope spots a star 1.5 times larger than our Sun.

  • News

    The next best thing to actually being on Mars

    A new, stunning picture of the Red Planet has been released by NASA.

  • News / Offbeat alien

    Survey: UFOs exist, and Americans want the Hulk to defend us

    A National Geographic survey out today says more than one-third of americans believe aliens exist.

  • News super moon

    Moon may have frozen water in south pole crater, study says

    If humanity ever colonizes the moon, we’ll need the help of local resources, like water and solar power.