A 220-Kilo Meteor Scorched the Pennsylvanian Sky Last Night
NASA's multitude of cameras recorded the flying object, which zipped through the Earth's atmosphere yesterday.
NASA's multitude of cameras recorded the flying object, which zipped through the Earth's atmosphere yesterday.
This human centrifuge is a little different to most, as it has an active 'boogie' gondola, which spins on an axis independent of the rotating arm. This thing will really make you sick. Read more >
Forget a boring old rover and try nuclear-powered boats or quadcopter space drones.
NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory snapped this image of the aftermath of a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star. Read more >
Within the next century, the American southwest could experience a landscape-altering megadrought due to rising carbon emissions and global warming.
This is the Lufthansa Technik hangar in Hamburg, and it's where Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy—a laboratory with wings — goes for its health check. Read More >>
The crew for NASA's Expedition 45 won't be all together on the International Space Station until their Soyuz docks in September, but that hasn't stopped the US-Russia-Japan cosmonaut supergroup releasing their official poster. I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's some definite space themes hidden in there. Read more >
An artist has updated a classic chart of the world's rockets that was originally published in 1995, to add newer craft like Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon. This is just a wee snippet of the full thing, so make sure to check out the bigger picture. See more >
The new Space Launch System got mad power.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge filament on the unhappy face of our Sun on February 10th. The scary fissure, which looks like a grimace on the surface of the star, is actually an enormous swathe of colder material hovering in the sun's atmosphere. Read more >
Fifteen years ago today NASA launched the space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to take highly detailed images of the Earth's surface.
The famed astronaut describes his first spacewalk, he dramatic shrinking of the Aral Sea, the pollution of major cities, and more.
NASA's just taken the best accidental smiley photo ever. It's galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849, and it's got one hell of a creepy grin. Read more >
This is a rare glimpse of a spiral galaxy seen directly along its edge. The image of NGC 7814, known as the "Little Sombrero" to its buddies, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more >
With a little bit of luck, SpaceX just might make history today.
Ceres' gravity and Dawn's ion drive will work together to pull the spacecraft into a tighter and tighter orbit, which is rather mesmerising traced out in full like this.
