A geomagnetic storm that began Monday is expected to continue and be felt on Earth throughout Wednesday. Solar flares are caused by the sudden release of magnetic energy stored in the Sun’s atmosphere and coronal mass ejection (CME), bursts of charged particles are released into space. This can interfere with technology on Earth, such as electrical power grids, communications systems and satellites – including satellite...

Credit: Moon Express Space.com notes several space missions to look out for in 2012, including: - Planetary Mission Milestones - Space Station Gets New Additions - Big Mars Rover Arrive at Red Planet - LightSail-1: A New Solar Sail Mission - NASA’s Grail Moon Probes See their full list here. Also visit: Naveen Jain on Twitter Naveen Jain on LinkedIn Naveen Jain on Google Plus Naveen Jain on Facebook Tweet This...

Space. Is it the ‘final frontier’? ‘Final frontier’ means there’s nowhere else to explore, and with so much left in this universe to discover it’s wrong to think that man should stop once we’ve settled space. With last week’s news of Paul Allen’s decision to join the ranks of entrepreneurs investing in the future of space exploration, thinking of space as the final frontier should be something left to the movies of the...

Images taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Satellite or SDO show the energy thrown off by the sun revealed in wavelengths invisible to the human eye such as X-rays and ultraviolet light. See images here. Tweet This...

Moon Express LanderZME Science wrote this interesting piece about the Moon Express mission. Even though it may seem that space exploration has taken a huge step back after NASA retired its shuttle program, the future might be a highly bright one thanks to privatized space programs. Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Moon Express, Inc., is one of the couple of billionaires today who share a common vision – the future of private space...

Credit: ALMAThis is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3billion radio telescope sitting high in the Chilean Andes. It shows two galaxies colliding in a view no other telescope on Earth or in space could capture. The shot is a teasing glimpse of the capabilities of the Atacama Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope – this picture has been taken using only a quarter of the antennae it will have when it...

Credit: NASAA Pennsylvania-based team’s electric-powered plane flew a 200-mile course to win a $1.35 million prize from NASA. Team Pipistrel-USA.com won the CAFE Green Flight Challenge and the largest award ever given by the space agency after its Taurus G4 electric airplane flew a course that began and ended at Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif., in less than two hours using just a half-gallon of gas for...