Pluto Looks Dazzling in This New Exaggerated Colour Image
Now that’s a planet, folks! Classification be damned, Pluto is an amazing little world, and this high-res, enhanced-colour image is the latest awe-inspiring portrait of it. Read More >>
Now that’s a planet, folks! Classification be damned, Pluto is an amazing little world, and this high-res, enhanced-colour image is the latest awe-inspiring portrait of it. Read More >>
Meet Kepler 452-b, the very first apparently rocky planet that definitively orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone.
The clever craft harnesses the power of Jupiter’s turbulent winds to stay airborne without needing fuel.
At 50 metres deep, a space pool being proposed by the University of Essex and development partner Blue Abyss will become the world’s deepest, for use in microgravity simulation. See more >>
Talk about a wing and a prayer.
Tonight three astronauts will be blasting off aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, and six hours later, they’re expected to dock at the International Space Station, beginning a five-month stint in orbit.
The unified global storm of space-geekery for last week's Pluto news shows NASA's nous.
Last week, Nix and Hydra transformed before our eyes from specks of light to bonafide moons. Today, NASA released a new set of images, bringing Pluto’s oblong satellites into even better focus. Read More >>
It involves flying low over the Arctic, studying the Greenland ice sheet and nearby sea ice with high-resolution digital and thermal imaging cameras, a sophisticated radar suite, a laser altimeter, and other instruments.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (also cleverly known as DSCOVR) is a spacecraft that sits a million miles away from Earth, hovering between the Sun and our planet. Its mission: to monitor space weather, and send us an endless stream of interplanetary snapshots. This is its first. Read more >>
From Clyde Tombaugh's first sighting to New Horizons' latest snapshot.
Usually you hear people talking about the other side of the Moon — but what about the Sun? Our orbit around the star means one side is out of view, but NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft has been collecting images of the side we can’t see. Read more >>
Some 533 million acres of forest in Eastern Europe have regrown since 1985, largely due to the disintegration of timber industries and abandonment of agricultural lands.
Get your fix of dwarf-planet info.
Alan Stern, New Horizon’s principal investigator, answered questions on a truly historic event, discussing the team’s latest impressions of Pluto’s surface and much more.
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has reached an exciting chapter, with the probe getting closer to the dwarf planet than has ever happened before, in a stunning flyby. Those masters of space, iO9, have a live blog covering all the space-based escapades, which we highly recommend you check out now.
