Space

The latest near earth object has passed without incident. Asteroid 2012 DA14 made the closest pass ever by an asteroid around 2:25pm E.S.T on February 15, 2013. The earth has manage to dodge another close call. And more interesting, the pass coincides with a meteor collision in Russia. This latest …

NASA’s Morpheus project encountered difficulties on Thursday. The experimental “green” lander fell to the ground in flames, followed by a small explosion. No one was injured, and Kennedy Space Center fire personnel extinguished the fire. Engineers have been testing a new fuel mix that is cheaper and stores longer.  The …

Three more members of the Expedition 32 crew have arrived at the International Space Station.  Flight Engineers Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide arrived after two days in orbit.  By coincident, the launching and docking fall on the 37th anniversary of the world’s first international space mission: the Apollo-Soyez …

With help from NASA, an international team has discovered a new pulsar. Using similar techniques, another team has discovered nine new pulsars. All of this made possible by NASA’s new Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. more… Follow