by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Scientists and amateur observers alike are eagerly awaiting Friday’s historic flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14, which will zoom inside Earth’s ring of geosynchronous satellites. At its nearest approach Friday (Feb. 15), the 150-foot-wide (45 meters) asteroid 2012 DA14 will be just 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) from …
Daily Mail Reporter June 20, 2012 Like a giant game of crosses without the naughts, these incredible jet engine trails can be seen criss-crossing the Atlantic from space. NASA’s Terra satellite captured these two amazing images of aircraft trails, or ‘contrails’ as they are known, spreading across the sky off …
huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — NASA has received a gift from an unexpected source – the nation’s satellite spy agency. The space agency confirmed Monday that it has received a pair of giant identical telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees the country’s constellation of spy satellites. NASA says the spy …
Nicholas Carlson businessinsider.com Google CEO Larry Page, Google’s old CEO Eric Schmidt, and former Goldman SachsCEO John Whitehead are among a group of very rich people who have funded a new company called Planetary Resources. The company’s mission is to find, capture, and mine asteroids. Yes, asteroids…in space. Read entire …