This includes concepts that may seem better suited to a summer Hollywood blockbuster like huge orbiting mirrors to deflect some of the sun's rays.
Last week, NASA announced that it will pay $17.8 million for the Nevada-based company's Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which will be affixed to the huge orbiting lab as a technology demonstration.
In 2007 a Chinese missile destroyed an old weather satellite, creating a huge field of orbiting debris.
The object was a huge sphere of gas orbiting a dim and distant star in the constellation Ophiuchus.
Each atom was carefully prepared so that one of its electrons orbited the nucleus in a huge circular orbit.
They've already bagged huge planets orbiting in a star's habitable zone--where any water would be liquid--and huge planets transiting in front of their stars.
These docking maneuvers are absolutely essential if the Chinese are to assemble huge spacecrafts in orbit and place landing vehicles on the moon.
An analysis of three new Jupiter-sized planets in tight orbits around their suns, presented in the current issue of The Astrophysical Journal, suggests that huge planets with orbits smaller than Mercury's are not oddities--in fact, they may be common.
A huge icy rock orbiting the sun in deep space is the biggest asteroid ever spotted, European astronomers said.
According to the commonly accepted theory, the young planet had just been broadsided by a Mars-size object, creating a huge disc of orbiting debris.
