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Kepler's search for Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy will continue through 2016, NASA announced this week. Image Credit/NASA
NASA has extended nine of the agency’s astrophysics missions – programs like Kepler and Hubble that probe the cosmos in search of answers to some of the our most profound questions – how did the universe originate, how did it evolve, are there...
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (JHU and STScI
Talk about senatorial splendor!
You couldn’t do any better given a new honor that recognizes United States Senator from Maryland, Barbara A. Mikulski.
One of the world’s largest astronomy archives has been named in her honor.
Called MAST, for the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, the huge database contains astronomical...
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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA’s popular Kepler exo-planet hunting mission, how three years old, receives a four-year...
A Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft floats down into the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nevada Credit: Boeing
A commercial crew space transportation capsule made a step forward on April 3, parachuting into a desert landscape.
The Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft floated down into the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nevada – a first test of a...
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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 sends a U. S. reconnaissance satellite into orbit from California...
Credit: OpenLab/UC Santa Cruz
Let your fingertips do the space travel!
A new and innovative app for iPads and iPhones allows you to access the nearly 2,000 distant planetary systems discovered by NASA’s planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft.
Called Kepler Explorer this new app challenges users to design a planet that matches the Kepler data.
Kepler Explorer starts...
An radio signal ship tracking technology demonstration underway aboard the International Space Station could improve safety on the high seas. Image Credit/ESA and NASA
A technology demonstration underway aboard the International Space Station — of all places — promises to improve safety and security on the world’s oceans.
And that is...
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Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. The European Space Agency looks to the end of its Automated Transfer Vehicle program of re-...
Credit: University of Chicago
Thanks to lunar material returned to Earth by Apollo moonwalkers decades ago, new research suggests how the Moon was formed.
There has been a widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago.
Not so, explains a science team...
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Monday’s CSExtra presents the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Aboard the International Space Station, Saturday offered drama as the six astronauts scrambled to...
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