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: ALMA This 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...

Credit: NASAAccording to NASA Watch, NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth at 12 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT), as Friday, Sept. 23, turned to Saturday, Sept. 24 on the United States east coast. The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has determined the satellite entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean at 14.1 degrees south latitude and 189.8 degrees east...

Credit: AGINASA’s 6 ½-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is due to fall somewhere on Earth Friday (Sept. 23), though exactly where and when remains a mystery. If you happened to be lucky enough to be within viewing range of a satellite that is re-entering the atmosphere, the sight, put simply, would amount to a short-lived but spectacular fireworks display. Unlike a fireball meteor, whose flight across the sky might take no more...