China to sending world's first asteroid mining robot into space in November.   T he objective of the Chinese space mission will be to evaluate the space rock minin…

YOU tumble through the air. You feel light as a feather! Free as a butterfly! On top of the world!. Ready to throw up. You're overcome with a seasick-y, sickening s…

Gravitational waves Story behind gravitational wave. September 14, 2015 at 6 O'clock a.m in the morning scientist witnessed something that no human…

NEARLY NO GRAVITY M ovies often show astronauts bouncing around in a zero gravity training center as they practice how to adjust to the weightlessness of space…

FAST FOOD   S cientists didn't know how weightlessness might affect swallowing food while in space before John Glenn orbited in 1962.  Without Earth's gr…

A  Sun-sational  Journey       Galileo didn't stop with the moon, He turned his telescope toward the Sun and spied dark blemishes called sunspots trave…

Will the Earth be destroyed? T he short answer is: Yep. Odds are that a huge asteroid or speeding comet will slam into Earth and destroy all life and perhaps th…

FIND YOUR "WEIGH" Here's a tricky question: Q: There is gravity in space. Yes or No? A: Yes . But what about all those astronauts floating around?…

HERE ARE ALL THE KNOWN MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM:  Earth: (1)Moon MARS: (2) Phobos, Deimos JUPITER: (16) Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, lo, Eu…

Structure of the universe When you look up at the night sky, much of what you see is pretty ancient "stuff." Although objects look very close tog…