NASA has come to what may seem like a surprising conclusion, ice in Antarctica isn’t shrinking, just the opposite, it has actually expanded to record levels. This challenges the commonly held narrative that global warming is causing ice levels in the Antarctic to shrink. The ice shelves in Antarctica have now expanded to their largest …
Sometimes we wonder if life on Mars could ever be a real possibility. NASA is exploring that idea and asking for public input. The organization is doing this through a competition called the In Situ (in place) Resource Utilization Challenge. It enables anyone to speculate on how to make use of Martian resources. The Challenge Website …
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just returned its first color images of Pluto’s atmosphere last week, revealing that the atmospheric hazes are blue. From NASA.gov: The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the way they scatter blue light has gotten the attention of the New Horizons science team. “That striking blue tint tells …
When the Smithsonian Institution took the small step of launching a Kickstarter campaign to save the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the first moonwalk, there was a giant leap of donations. The museum reached its half-million dollar goal to “Reboot the Suit” in just five days – so it raised the goal to $700,000 to …
Today, NASA’s Kepler mission identified the first promising candidate of “Earth 2.0”, aka a planet that might be able to sustain life as we know it. The exoplanet is approximately 60% larger than our Earth, and is called Kepler-452b (real catchy name). The exact mass and composition have yet to be determined, but research suggests …