Robot spacecraft snaps Uranus through rings of Saturn
By Colin Daileda From Mashable The robotic NASA spacecraft Cassini has been touring the solar system for 17 years now — and it just caught its first glimpse of one of the most remote planets. Cassini has been focused on…
Citizen scientists to resurrect defunct NASA spacecraft
By Alex Magdaleno From Mashable For the first time, NASA has agreed to work with a group of citizen scientists to resurrect a spacecraft the agency is no longer using and has no plans to use again. NASA announced that…
NASA successfully tests ‘flying saucer’ vehicle
By Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAY EARLIER: NASA TO TEST FLYING-SAUCER-LIKE DEVICE FOR MARS LANDINGS NASA plans to launch a flying-saucer-shaped vehicle to test technology for landing heavy loads – and one day even people – on Mars. The…
Sun emits 3 powerful X-Class solar flares in 2 Days
By Andrew Freedman From Mashable Starting on June 10, the sun emitted a series of powerful solar flares, known as “X-Class” flares, which were observed in brilliant colors by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The flares erupted from the left side…
An alarming prediction about Antarctica made in 1978 is coming true
By Dina Spector From Business Insider Two new studies published on Monday report that the melting of the ice sheet in West Antarctica is unstoppable and could raise global sea levels by as much as 4 feet in the next…
NASA’s new spacesuit design looks like something from ‘Tron’
By Samantha Murphy Kelly From Mashable As engineers and scientists work hard to build technologies that astronauts could one day use to live and work on Mars, the future of spacesuits is looking stylish too. Or at least, fittingly,…
Solar flare captured in stunning NASA video
By Melissa Goldin From Mashable A NASA video released recently features striking footage of a mid-level solar flare recently captured by the space agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Solar flares are large bursts of radiation that manifest themselves as a moment…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the mend after glitch By Mike Wall, Senior Writer for Space.com From Mashable NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) put itself into a precautionary “safe mode” March 7, but the venerable spacecraft is now on the…
10 industries 3D printing will disrupt or decimate
By Lyndsey Gilpin From Tech Republic As it evolves, 3D printing technology is destined to transform almost every major industry and change the way we live, work, and play in the future. For better or worse, the 3D printing industry…
Incredible new pictures of lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan
By KELLY DICKERSON From Business Insider NASA Saturn’s moon Titan. You can see one of its hyrdrocarbon lakes in the dark area near the top of the image. The Cassini spacecraft has revealed incredible images of lakes and seas made…
