On October 25, 2017 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA Expedition 53 shared many interesting details about the ISS with the audience that gathered at the America House Kyiv, including the US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, America House Director Christi Anne Hofland, ...
Read More »NASA engineer Omar Hatamleh predicts that all mechanical processes in space will be performed by artificial intelligence
On the Day of Knowledge, September 1, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University hosted a meeting with the NASA engineer Omar Hatamleh, who told students and other participants about the amazing possibilities of new technologies. Many of the technologies that we use now in ...
Read More »Large Asteroid Florence Will Safely Pass Earth on September 1, NASA Says
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on September 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances). Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are ...
Read More »NASA Finds Chemical That Could Provide Pathway To Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan
According to the report, NASA researchers have found large quantities of the chemical on Saturn’s moon Titan. On Earth, acrylonitrile, also known as vinyl cyanide, is useful in the manufacture of plastics. Under the harsh conditions of Saturn’s largest moon, ...
Read More »Watch Stunning Video Of Green Aurora Filmed From Space
According to the NASA report, expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA shared photos and time-lapse video of a glowing green aurora seen from his vantage point 250 miles up, aboard the International Space Station. This aurora photo was ...
Read More »Cassini Shows Intriguing Image Of Enceladus’ South-Polar Jets
According to NASA, the picture of the jets was taken from afar. This view looks toward the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across). North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini ...
Read More »Imagine You Are Flying Over Pluto In NASA’s Cool Video
Pluto is one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, which we can’t even call a planet anymore. Thanks to NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft data and digital elevation models, scientists have created impressive movies, in which we fly ...
Read More »Juno Captures Great Planetary Storm On Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew directly over the Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot” on Monday, July 10. It succeeded to approach the monster storm and make a close up from a distance of just 9,000 kilometers. As the raw images are not ...
Read More »Citizen Astronomer Reveals Jupiter’s ‘Face’ Caught By JunoCam
This image, processed by citizen scientist Jason Major, is titled “Jovey McJupiterface,” Joinfo.com reports with reference to NASA. Major received the Jupiter’s ‘face’ by rotating the image 180 degrees and orienting it from south up. Two white oval storms turn ...
Read More »Mars Robot Curiosity Making Decisions on Its Own
In 2012, the Curiosity rover began its slow trek across the surface of Mars, listening for commands from Earth about where to go, what to photograph, which rocks to inspect. Then last year, something interesting happened: Curiosity started making decisions ...
Read More »NASA Prepares for Total Solar Eclipse
NASA will provide viewers around the world with a wealth of images captured before, during, and after the eclipse by 11 spacecraft, from at least three NASA aircraft, more than 50 high-altitude balloons, and the astronauts aboard the International Space ...
Read More »NASA’s Kepler telescope found 10 near-Earth size exoplanets
According to the report, this is the most comprehensive and detailed catalog release of candidate exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system, from Kepler’s first four years of data. It’s also the final catalog from the spacecraft’s view of ...
Read More »Juno captures stunning close-up of Jupiter’s clouds
NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud tops. The spacecraft was over 65.9 ...
Read More »NASA Finds Dust Around Active Black Holes Is More Compact Than Previously Thought
Most, if not all, large galaxies contain a supermassive black hole at their centers. Many of these black holes are relatively quiet and inactive, like the one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. However, some supermassive black holes ...
Read More »NASA calls press conference to reveal ‘most sophisticated analyses yet’ of its Kepler planet hunting telescope
NASA is set to reveal the latest discoveries from its ongoing hunt for planets outside of our solar system, in an event next week that could ultimately help guide the search for alien life, according to Daily Mail. While the ...
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