A monstrous solar flare that erupted from the sun late Tuesday night, March 6, is ushering in one of the most intense solar storms in over five years.  The solar storm could possibly interfere with satellites in orbit as well as power grids when it finally reaches Earth. “Space weather has gotten very interesting over [...]

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Forget about that asteroid that could hit Earth in 2040, there’s a new one that may be headed right for us in less than a year. (UPDATE: Scientists now say the asteroid will miss Earth) Scientists have discovered Asteroid 2012 DA14, which will pass closer to Earth than most satellites on February 15 2013, and [...]

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Experts have NASA have announced that there is a small chance that an asteroid could hit Earth in February 2040. Before you start wondering if you’ll ever really pay off that new, 30-year mortgage you just took out, you should know that there are still a lot of unknowns given how far away this asteroid [...]

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There’s an interesting story making the rounds on the internet this week.  It’s the story of one Hector Siliezar and his trip to El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009. [...]

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Was there recently an “earthquake” on Mars?  The surface of the red planet may have been shaken by quakes relatively recently, hinting at the existence of active volcanoes and, more importantly, the possibility of the existence of reservoirs of liquid water, according to a new study. Using photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers [...]

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Someone call Kevin Costner. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an entirely new class of planet, totally enveloped by water. The so-called “Waterworld Planet” has a thick atmosphere and is smaller than the planet Uranus but bigger than Earth. “GJ1214b is like no planet we know of,” said Zachory Berta of the Harvard-Smithsonian [...]

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NASA is looking for at least two American companies to design and build a new “space taxi” to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station, the space agency announced yesterday. The effort is part of NASA’s new Integrated Design Project (IDC). The space agency plans to invest $300 million to $500 million into [...]

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Remember Roger Boisjoly?  Of course you don’t.  Not many people do…but he played a very important role in the history of the space program.  Boisjoly will forever be remembered as the Challenger whistleblower. Boisjoly was the Morton Thiokol (now ATK) aerospace engineer who warned about the severe cold conditions on the day of the infamous [...]

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It’s something we’ve never seen before.  For the first time ever, a NASA spacecraft has detected “alien particles” that came from beyond our own solar system. The announcement was made at a NASA press conference held Tuesday. The discovery gives us a peek at what lies in the so-called interstellar medium, the matter between stars, [...]

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Ever since we first ventured into space, NASA has been releasing images of Earth taken from various spacecraft, the so-called “Blue Marble” images. Since the first photo was sent back to Earth, NASA has added several more, including a particularly well-known Blue Marble photo taken in 2002 that’s used as a default background image for [...]

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Don’t look now, but we’re going to have a pretty close shave in about an hour. Asteroid 2012 BX34 will be blowing past Earth today, but it doesn’t pose much of a threat despite the fact that it will be closer than our moon. The newly-discovered asteroid, which is about the size of a bus, [...]

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The Earth is literally taking a pounding.  A massive blast of plasma energy spewed from the sun on Sunday night and led to the strongest radiation storm since 2005. Delta Air Lines has been forced to redirect certain high-flying airplanes as a precaution. NOAA‘s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a geomagnetic storm watch after a [...]

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