This Ice Rover's Descendants Will Explore Europa's Ocean
This autonomously controlled bot is designed to float on the underside of ice sheets, rolling itself around on wheels, snapping photos and collecting data.
This autonomously controlled bot is designed to float on the underside of ice sheets, rolling itself around on wheels, snapping photos and collecting data.
Once again, SpaceX has audaciously attempted to land a rocket in the middle of the ocean, and once again, something went horribly wrong.
If you’re the sort of person who lives by the motto that every second counts, next week, you get to put your money where your mouth is.
We’ve known that many aquifers are overtaxed, but a new report shows we’re draining major aquifers faster than they’re being replenished. This is happening everywhere.
If you’d told my 10-year-old self that a private space company would blast some holographic virtual reality googles to the International Space Station one day, my young head would’ve exploded.
As NASA’s Dawn mission continues to circle dwarf planet Ceres, we’re getting better and more detailed images of the planet’s mysterious bright spots. And yet, science is no closer to understanding what’s making this far-off planet glow. Read more >>
The best thing about being in zero gravity (aside from being in zero gravity, of course) has to be how liquids become amorphous blobs that can just float around. Here’s a collection of awesome experiments that NASA has conducted of water in zero gravity. They’re amazing! See more >>
Clouds are not usually the most enthralling part of nature. But in the late spring and summer, weather conditions conspire to create noctilucent or ‘night-shining’ clouds, high-altitude clouds that glow with an electric-blue hue long after the Sun has set. Read more >>
The gallery holds over 100,000 space-based images, from jet engineering to the outer reaches of space.
It's the closest thing we have to a real-life Transformer.
The pock-marked surface of this spherical chunk of rock looks a lot like images of our own Moon — but in fact, this is much, much further away. Read more >>
This beautiful radar scan depicts the methane-filled lakes of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The images were taken by the international Cassini mission, as part of a study into what forms depressions on Titan. Read more >>
The image you’re looking at is a glimpse into our future. Welcome to July 2099, according to 21 different climate models.
The reason to start investing in a 4K screen just became much more convincing—NASA is now uploading 4K content at 60 frames-per-second via YouTube.
This image captures the capsule as it lands, but don’t worry: the flames are helping soften the landing and not a sign of bad news.
Countries are scrambling to get to Mars in a good ol’ fashioned space race. But focus instead may be shifting to the Red Planet’s two moons, with Japan's space company planning to probe them.
