Love, Fear, and Greed: Why We Should Go to the Asteroids || Center for Astrophysics
Martin Elvis, CfA Most people fear asteroids as a threat to life on Earth. Scientists’ love of knowledge drives them to check out the material our planet grew from. And a few visionaries have argued that the mineral wealth in the asteroids [...]
Cosmic Train Wrecks – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
“Observatory Nights” public lecture series from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Lauranne Lanz, CfA Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will be an era of both [...]
The Happy Accident
Speakers: Rick Fienberg, S&T editor emeritus Dennis di Cicco, S&T senior editor Bob Naeye, S&T editor in chief Happy accidents do happen! It began in 1929 as a four-page flyer, “The Amateur Astronomer.” Six years later [...]
Shuttle Endeavour leaves space station forever
Endeavour and its crew of six departed the International Space Station late Sunday and headed home to wrap up NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight.
Endeavour and its crew of six left the International Space Station and headed home to close out [...]
Skylon space plane gets a thumbs-up
A space plane that can take off and land from conventional runways is one step closer to reality.
Following a series of meetings in September 2010 at the International Space Innovation Center in Harwell, U.K., to look at the feasibility of [...]
Is the Rocky Alien Planet Gliese 581d Really Habitable?
A rocky alien planet called Gliese 581d may be the first known world beyond Earth capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study suggests.
Astronomers performing a new atmospheric-modeling study have found that the planet likely lies [...]
How computers got us into space
When you look back at the past 50 years of human spaceflight, don’t forget the computer scientists who helped make it all possible.
That’s the message Arthur Cohen wants to pass along on the golden anniversary of NASA astronaut Alan [...]
Japanese satellite Hinode discovers two huge holes in sun’s magnetic field
A JAPANESE satellite has captured images showing two huge holes in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar corona, which are blasting solar material into space.
Known as “coronal holes” these openings in the Sun’s magnetic field allow [...]
NASA Robot and First Whole Sun Picture
The unlikely pairing of Football and Science face off head to head on Super Bowl SUNday. Millions of television viewers saw NASA’s Robonaut 2, or R2, share the the limelight with the Steelers and the Packers of the NFL.
The twin brother of [...]
First Views Of The Entire Sun On Super Sun-Day
Here comes the Sun, as we’ve never seen it before. THE complete surface of the Sun was captured in an image for the first time today by a pair of orbiting space telescopes.
It’s official: The sun is a sphere. NASA scores big on super [...]
