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 A fridge thrown off the International Space Station (ISS) last year is set to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere shortly, delivering a volley of 100mph space fragments to an unknown impact site. The fridge is called Early Ammonia System (EAS), a 1400lb tank intended to furnish backup supplies of the unpleasant-smelling coolant to the ISS in...
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 Two American astronauts onboard the International Space Station, Commander Edward Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer and Science Officer Greg Chamitoff , will vote from space or at least try to do so from 220 miles above Earth, while traveling at 17,500 miles per hour. They are serving on the space station with one Russian cosmonaut and...
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 The Phoenix Mars Lander appears to be running out of steam. The Lander is losing solar-electric power because of shorter daylight hours and dust storms on Mars, NASA announced. Furthermore, the temperatures could reach as low as minus 141 degrees Fahrenheit, and that’s thanks to the Martian winter. This week, Phoenix fell silent, going...
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 NASA has chosen November the 14th as the date for its next space shuttle launch, a flight by the Endeavour to the ISS (International Space Station). The mission will increase the size of the space station crew from three to six next year, around May or June. Endeavour will deliver equipment for a new water reclamation system, as well as...
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 NASA operators wasted no time in their efforts to repair the Hubble telescope, which photographed once again another stunning cosmic scene. The photo shows an odd pair of galaxies called Arp 147 and it was released on Thursday. Mission officials said that the image is a perfect “10,” proving that the telescope’s Wide Field Planetary...
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 Recent reports suggesting that the Ares I rocket is doomed to failure have been denied by NASA officials. The story first appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, on October the 26th, where it was mentioned that there are concerns regarding Ares I crashing into its launch tower under certain wind conditions. This delayed the U.S. space agency’s...
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 Images taken by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, which flew by the innermost planet a few weeks ago, proved that volcanic eruptions nearly 4 billion years ago player a bigger role in shaping the planet’s surface. Solidified lava in a crater as big as Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas is deep enough to stack 12 Washington monuments,...
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 NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander, which has conducted five months of research near the Martian North Pole, has begun a slow shut down. The Lander’s solar panels are generating less power from the decreasing sunlight, while the craft’s heaters require more energy to keep the Lander operational as temperatures drop. NASA engineers say that they...
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 It seems that archaeologists have found the fictional King Solomon’s Mines. Even if they should have provided him with gold and diamonds, all they could offer was copper. Researches were led by Thomas Levy of the University of California, San Diego, and Mohammad Najjar of Jordan’s Friends of Archaeology. They discovered a...
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 A solar system similar to ours has been recently discovered. Epsilon Eridani is located at about 10.5 light-years from our sun and it’s surrounded by two asteroid belts that are shaped by planets. The announcement was made today by astronomers at SETI Institute and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. After a first good...
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