When you have a good program going, the best thing to do is to keep that idea alive.  When you want to accomplish out-of-this-world feats, you look to those mechanisms existing outside of this world.  When such a machine delivers in its progress, you keep that thing going.  You might even ask that they keep-ler [...]

Tags: Kepler, NASA, space

It can be a terrible thing to suddenly realize you are looking around for something that has gone missing.  You begin to fully understand the situation brought to your attention involves the disappearance of an item or object you must now locate. Perhaps you have just misplaced the keys to your home or car.  Maybe [...]

Tags: Amazon.com, Apollo 11, Atlantic Ocean, discovery, engines, Jeff Bezos, NASA, sonar, space, spacecraft, underwater

You can casually walk down the street for a simple stroll whilst avoiding any oncoming pedestrian traffic rather easily.  As someone walks by, you can hop to your side and continue walking about your day.  Even if you decide to cross the street, you can pause to let traffic drive on by.  Some journeys do [...]

Tags: astronaut, garbage, International Space Station, space

It is merely simple physics that tells us that the closer an object is to a heat source, the warmer that objects gets.  This has something to do with a transfer of energy. You would be less likely to discover anything cool or even icy near some fire source.  Even if you put an ice [...]

Tags: heat, ice, Mercury, NASA, space, sun, sunlight, temperature, water

The final frontier may in fact be outer space, the universe, or beyond.  Science sure wants to take us to worlds we have only seen and heard of in science fiction stories or by the use of our own imagination.  The limits of humanity have been assisted by the power of science in all aspects [...]

Tags: astronaut, brain, eye, eyes, Mars, moon, NASA, space, travel

There is a lot of stuff out there in the universe.  There is a lot of stuff just outside our planet.  Earth has been dealing with a growing problem with space junk that seems to be getting only worse and worse.  There are many objects just floating around that should probably just go away.  What [...]

Tags: Earth, space

Our little blue planet floating along in space is constantly under threat from flying space particles hurling their way at us.  Unlike games like the arcade classic “Asteroids,” we cannot move the planet about in space to avoid collision.  I also don’t believe that any collision would result in space junk halving itself, but I [...]

Tags: asteroids, Earth, space