A dinosaur is floating around the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a flight engineer orbiting the Earth since May, stitched together the olive green toy, the first stuffed animal created in space, in her spare time. She made the toy giant lizard from the Velcro-like fabric that linesContinue Reading
Major Tim Peake (what a fitting name!), Britain’s first astronaut, said he will tweet from space when he goes in 2015. “I certainly will be tweeting from space, a large part of what I want to achieve on this mission is to try to inspire a generation and encourage themContinue Reading
Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano discovered PH1 while participating in the “Planet Hunter” program led by Yale University. The program allows amateur astronomers team up with professional scientists to search for new discoveries with data collected from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. “Planet Hunters is a symbiotic project, pairing the discoveryContinue Reading
OK outdoorsmen and women, are you ready for the Supermoon? NASA scientists say this full moon Saturday night will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than any full moon this year. The scientific term is “perigee moon,” but all we need to know is that it’s going toContinue Reading