Meteorite on Mars, A New World View by Balloon & More
Last week NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a huge meteorite on Mars and a 'rubber ducky' was seen in space. See the best stories from the week here.
FIRST STOP: Huge Space Telescope Needed to Seek Life on Alien Planets
Huge Space Telescope Needed to Seek Life on Alien Planets
While NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be capable of finding signs of life on nearby exoplanets after its 2018 launch, a bona fide hunt for aliens beyond Earth's neighborhood will require even bigger instruments, experts say.
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NEXT: SpaceX Reusable Rocket Test Returns Booster to Earth, then 'Kaboom'
Experimental Space Plane Designs Wanted by US Military
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded initial design contracts for its Experimental Spaceplane project, known as XS-1, to three different companies: Boeing, Masten Space Systems and Northrop Grumman. hotos of a huge iron meteorite on Mars.
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NEXT: Amazing World View Balloon Flight Video Reveals Stunning Look at Earth
Huge Meteorite on Mars Discovered by NASA's Curiosity Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has made its first meteorite discoveries on the Red Planet. See Curiosity's photos of a huge iron meteorite on Mars.
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NEXT: Experimental Space Plane Designs Wanted by US Military
SpaceX Reusable Rocket Test Returns Booster to Earth, then 'Kaboom'
The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX returned part of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth after a successful satellite launch Monday (July 14) in a reusability test that did not go entirely as planned. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote that the booster lost integrity after splashdown, “aka kaboom.”
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NEXT: Huge Meteorite on Mars Discovered by NASA's Curiosity Rover
Amazing World View Balloon Flight Video Reveals Stunning Look at Earth
A new video gives an extended look at the record-breaking first test flight by a company that aims to begin lofting passengers on near-space balloon cruises by 2016.
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NEXT: Private US Cargo Ship Blasts Off on Space Station Delivery
Private US Cargo Ship Blasts Off on Space Station Delivery
The private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences launched their Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station for the second robotic mission to the orbiting outpost.
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NEXT: Take That, Jupiter! Planet's Great Comet Crash of 1994 Recalled
Take That, Jupiter! Planet's Great Comet Crash of 1994 Recalled
Twenty years ago this week, humans for the first time witnessed a collision between two bodies in the solar system. From July 16 to 22, 1994, more than 20 fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 pelted Jupiter's atmosphere.
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NEXT: Gullies on Mars Carved by Dry Ice, Not Water
Gullies on Mars Carved by Dry Ice, Not Water
New observations suggest that the gullies formed on Mars were created by dry ice rather than running water.
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NEXT: Ideas Wanted for NASA Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa
Ideas Wanted for NASA Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa
NASA has announced a call for scientific instruments that will be sent on the next Europa mission to search for signs of life.
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NEXT: Apollo 11 Moon Landing Raised the Bar for Humanity, Astronauts Say
Apollo 11 Moon Landing Raised the Bar for Humanity, Astronauts Say
It goes without saying that NASA's historic launch of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission 45 years ago today changed the face of humanity, and nowhere does that resonate more than in orbit, where astronauts live and work on the largest manmade structure off planet Earth: the International Space Station.
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NEXT: US Too Dependent on Russian Rocket Engines, Experts Tell Lawmakers
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