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SpaceX Marks New Commercial Era in Space Exploration

Yesterday’s successful launch of SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon reusable spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida, marked what NASA administrator Charles Bolden called “the beginning of a new...

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See Jupiter’s Newly-discovered Tiny Moon in Motion

S/2010 J 1 in motion Sept. 8, 2010. Animation is sped up by a factor of 2000. The actual time between each image in the animation is roughly 38 minutes. (Photo:Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)...

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Earth Preps for Close Encounter with Asteroid

Drawing of the path of near-Earth asteroid 2012ge DA14 when it passes close to Earth on Feb. 15, 2013. (NASA) Earth is about to have a close encounter with an asteroid, the nearest an object of its...

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Third Radiation Belt Discovered Around Earth

A new radiation belt has been discovered around Earth. It is shown here using actual data as the middle arc of orange and red of the three arcs seen on each side of the Earth. (Image: JHUAPL/LASP) NASA...

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Space Junk Jeopardizes Earth’s Space Environment

Computer generated image of Earth’s orbitral debis. View is from a distant oblique vantage point to provide a good view of the object population in the geosynchronous region – around 35,785 km...

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