Space

Year of Discovery: 1610 What Is It? Other planets (be sides Earth) have moons. Who Discovered It? Galileo Galilei Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Galileo discovered that other planets have moons and thus extended human understanding beyond our own planet. His careful work with the telescopes he built launched modern astronomy. His [...]

Year of Discovery: 1609 What Is It? The planets orbit the sun not in perfect circles, but in ellipses. Who Discovered It? Johannes Kepler Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Even after Copernicus simplified and corrected the structure of the solar system by discovering that the sun, not the earth, lay at the [...]

Year of Discovery: 1598 What Is It? Objects fall at the same speed regardless of their weight. Who Discovered It? Galileo Galilei Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? It seems a simple and obvious discovery. Heavier objects don’t fall faster. Why does it qualify as one of the great discoveries? Because it ended [...]

The astronauts from the International Space Station have a message for all the people on Earth. The space astronauts that are living on the International Space Station have sent a special Christmas message to their families and to all the people on Earth. “Congratulations from the International Space Station and from the crew on the [...]

The American space agency sold some computers that were used in the space program without deleting some important files on them. The investigation shows that there were 10 cases in which computers were sold without respecting the procedure of deleting the secret data on them. There were even 4 cases in which information was regarded [...]

NASA discovered an “extraordinary object” in our cosmic vicinity. The announcement was made official last night. NASA announced on November 10th that : “Monday , November 15th NASA will hold a press release to announce a discovery made by the Chandra Observatory, that is an amazing object situated in our vicinity”. The press conference will [...]

Today was an important day for astronauts on the Atlantis space shuttle as they managed to repair a spectrograph who didn’t work for a long time. Yesterday, two astronauts repaired a camera, while today Michael Massimino and Michael Good repaired the spectrograph of the Hubble Space Telescope. The two astronauts along with their colleagues who [...]