Beautiful photos show signs of ‘runaway’ stars in the Milky WayBy
By BY MIRIAM KRAMER From Mashable KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Runaway stars speeding through the galaxy aren’t exactly easy to find, but luckily, they leave some clues that space-based telescopes can catch and beam back to Earth. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and…
NASA releases an even closer look at Pluto’s heart
By Mariella Moon From engadget Now that you’re better acquainted with Pluto’s mountains and ice fields, it’s time to examine its heart. We’re talking about the dwarf planet’s heart-shaped region called Tombaugh Regio, of course, which is prominently displayed in many…
NASA’s version of ‘Shark Tank’
NASA’s version of ‘Shark Tank’ results in six aviation moonshots By Mona Lalwani From engadget NASA wants to change the way planes fly. As part of a new Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project, the agency’s innovators recently formed teams to pitch…
7 tiny mobile homes
By Cat DiStasio From engadget Living off the grid was once a lifestyle reserved for rustic folks who prefer roughing it over city life. These days, though, the face of unplugged living can look downright space-age. We’ve rounded up some…
NASA says liquid water may flow on Mars. What does it mean for life?
By Miriam Kramer From Mashable NASA revealed on Monday the strongest evidence yet that liquid water occasionally still flows on Mars. Planetary scientists often say that researchers should “follow the water” when looking for extraterrestrial life, so finding clear data…
orbiting space laboratory
Get inside the largest orbiting space laboratory in history By Dan Turkel From Business Insider Thanks to the efforts of European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, you can share the dizzying experience of floating through the International Space Station’s many…
Sea level rise predicted to be larger than originally thought
By Caroline Reid From IFL Science There had been a consensus that sea levels would rise between 30 and 90 centimeters (one to three feet) by the end of the century. That was in 2013. Now, with even more data…
Is there life on Jupiter’s moons?
Is there life on Jupiter’s moons? Juice may hold the key By Dave Gilbert, CNN NASA has captured a stunning new image of the so-called “Pillars of Creation,” one of the space agency’s most iconic discoveries. The giant columns of…
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NASA begins to build satellite mission to improve hurricane forecasting
From NASA Engineers begin construction of the first of eight microsatellites for NASA’s CYGNSS mission Ten years after Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic, construction of NASA’s next-generation hurricane-observing satellite mission now is underway in Texas. NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation…
NASA probe snaps first color image of Pluto while promising more to come
By Nola Taylor Redd for Space.com NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto has returned its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. The new photo, taken on April 9 from a distance of about 71…
