Relax, This Moon Isn't a Death Star
Mimas is a 250-mile-wide moon in orbit around Saturn, mostly non-descript apart from its appearance: it looks creepily, unsettlingly like Darth Vader's Death Star. Read more >>
Mimas is a 250-mile-wide moon in orbit around Saturn, mostly non-descript apart from its appearance: it looks creepily, unsettlingly like Darth Vader's Death Star. Read more >>
A new study in mice is discouraging: Space-like levels of radiation exposure damaged their neurons, giving the mice cognitive problems.
These beautiful photos from NASA showcase South Korea's seaweed farms. Read More >>
Yesterday, NASA’s Messenger space probe slammed into the surface of Mercury at upwards of 8,000 mph. This is its parting message: an image of the planet’s surface captured shortly before it struck down. Read more >>
Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal has killed more than 5,500 people and injured at least 11,000. Now, we’re seeing how the disaster appears from space, with both NASA and the European Space Agency releasing satellite imagery of the event. Read more >>
These colourful composite images of Mercury aren’t down to NASA experimenting with mind-altering substances: it’s the result of different data sets being applied to the image, to create this stunning visualisation. Read more >>
When it comes to life-and-death predictions of agriculture in Africa, systems are woefully inadequate and the only hope is space.
Who needs a bird’s eye view when you could go with an astronaut’s? One company’s partnering with NASA to give us just that. Read More >>
Since shipping to space on April 24th, 1990, it’s captured hundreds of thousands of images and has fundamentally shaped the way we see the universe. Not bad for disco-era hardware.
NASA ups its alien-searching game, LG’s got a stylus-focused smartphone to show off, and tablets get even thinner (can you believe it?). BitStream, coming through.
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly shared his little experiment via a photo on Facebook.
It may look like some kind of ancient urn, but you’re looking at something rather more advanced.
C Robert O’Dell was Chief Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope project. Twenty five years after its launch, he explains what it took to get the project back in 1972.
Living in space provides an overwhelming series of aesthetic joys, from whether it’s the view of Earth from above the aurora borealis — but even a simple reflection can look amazing, too. Read more >
Littered across the cosmos are massive, dead galaxies, containing roughly half the stars in the known Universe. Much about them remains a mystery, but a study suggests that they may have rotted from the inside out.
NASA really wants people to get to Mars, but it's pretty adamant that it will be the one to get someone there.
