This Distant Spiral Galaxy Looks Very Familiar
This is what observers in a distant galaxy would see if they could look at the Milky Way through a powerful space telescope. Read More >>
This is what observers in a distant galaxy would see if they could look at the Milky Way through a powerful space telescope. Read More >>
The New Horizons spacecraft will start the busiest phase of its flight tomorrow as it makes its closest approach to Pluto, and you can watch from home.
The spacecraft travelled 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. That’s about a million miles a day for almost ten years. How the heck did we do it?
Yesterday, we got our first peek at geologic features on the dwarf planet’s surface. And today, New Horizons beamed back the best image to date of four mysterious dark splotches near Pluto’s south pole. Read More >>
NASA just one-upped Google Earth's maps of Mars with a data-rich interactive map that lets you peek into every nook and cranny, from the miles-high volcanoes to the sperm-shaped valleys. You can even reproduce them with a 3D printer! Read More >>
In its latest portrait from the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists are able to pick out distant surface formations, including a polygonal band of terrain stretching east-northeast across the planet.
Every 115 years, Venus crosses our Sun in Earth’s line of sight—twice. And when the most recent crossing took place, scientists used the event to refine tools that’ll one day help astronomers search distant worlds for signs of life. Read More >>
That’s because it’s always Pluto Time somewhere.
Thanks to NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, humanity keeps a 24/7 unceasing watch on our friendly neighbourhood star. But to get a better appreciation of what’s happening on the Sun’s surface, SDO has to rope in some friends. Three telescope teams came together to create this stunning image. Read more >>
Every summer, the population of algae in the North Atlantic reaches a peak, with the blue-green colour of the phytoplankton causing the ocean to visibly change. So much change, in fact, that NASA's aptly-named Aqua satellite could capture this image. Read More >>
This time-lapse video is made up of a series of images captured by the Opportunity rover’s hazard-avoidance cameras between January 2004 and April 2015.
The Spitzer space telescope created this false-colour infrared image of the runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi and its bow wave. Read More >>
When it comes to fireworks, NASA doesn’t play around. A decade ago, it crashed a probe into a comet just to watch the cosmic display, and now they’ve turned that moment into a Vine. Read More >>
Mark your calendars for fireworks, Earthlings. And no, I’m not talking about the little peonies you shoot out of your back garden in November.
If you know, you're doing better than the world's current space scientists.
This autonomously controlled bot is designed to float on the underside of ice sheets, rolling itself around on wheels, snapping photos and collecting data.
