Even in outer space…the beat goes on! The heart beat that is. But how best to monitor its condition on lengthy space treks, say to Mars? An engineering team of students has designed a new stethoscope for NASA to deliver accurate heart- and body-sounds to medics who are trying to appraise astronauts’ health on long [...]

  Dr. Sally Ride, American’s first female astronaut, will be honored posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House later this year, President Obama announced Monday.   The announcement coincided with a tribute to Ride on Monday night at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Ride, who [...]

NASA’s Smartphone Nanosatellite mission is underway. Now circling the Earth are Alexander, Graham and Bell! The trio of smartphones rode to space April 21 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The PhoneSats that are operating in orbit may prove to be the lowest-cost [...]

  Launched four year ago, NASA’s Kepler space telescope is narrowing an unprecedented search for alien planets similar to the Earth. On Thursday, astronomers announced the discovery of three “Super Earths” circling in the habitable zones of two distant stars, one of them quite like the sun. Than means liquid water, an essential ingredient for [...]

Howardites and eucrites are meteorite classifications, both of which are providing surprising clues to solar system-wide impact bombardment billions of years ago. New research unveils an unexpected link between asteroid Vesta and the Moon, providing new means for studying the early bombardment history of the terrestrial planets. According to the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) [...]