This T-Rex Fossil is the First Dinosaur Ever to Fly to Space
Joins Cookie Monster and photos of Jennifer from Back To The Future in the 62-mile-high club.
Joins Cookie Monster and photos of Jennifer from Back To The Future in the 62-mile-high club.
A week ago, while you were safely tucked up in bed, a group of NASA scientists up in Alaska were preparing to launch a rocket into the Northern Lights. Read more >
It's possible that those oceans, warmed by undersea volcanoes, could harbour microbial life. NASA's wanted a closer look for 15 years, and now they're getting it.
When anything from fast-as-a-bullet space dust to the simple ability to turn your head is a matter of life and death, designing suitable attire is fairly complex. A NASA expert explains the process…
This image, taken by Expedition 41 aboard the International Space Station, looks like the fine artwork of some extra-terrestrial landscape, but it's actually decades old scarred earth and entrenchments of warfare along the Iraq/Iran border. Read more >
Rather than looking towards deep space, SMAP will be turning its gaze on earth—more specifically, the soil beneath our feet.
Thirty years since Moon Boots were a thing, designers are still being inspired by the complex space suits developed by NASA that helped astronauts survive space. Read more
Eleven years ago NASA's Opportunity rover touched down on Mars for what was supposed to be a 90-day mission. Since then it has traveled almost 26 miles on the Martian surface
The Leidy Glacier faces a barrier as it meets the Olriks Fjord that it feeds into: rock. This image shows how, even for a giant, hulking slab of ice and rock, the path of least resistance is often the most favourable. Read More >>
Microsoft have been building a software platform called OnSight that's designed to let scientists carry out their work through realistic holograms of the distant planet they're studying. Using HoloLens, of course.
I like to think I have a pretty decent home office, but it's nothing at all compared to where the Space Station's astronauts get to work all day long.
It's amazing how effective those thermal shields are on NASA's Orion spacecraft. With all of the panels removed for a viewing by Kennedy Space Center workers, you can hardly see any heat-related damage under the skin of the spacecraft, after its successful launch and re-entry that it performed late last year.
The future of space transport lies in autonomous control.
The Red Planet just took a hit. This image shows a new impact crater in Elysium Planitia, discovered by the HiRISE imager aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. You can see a very distinct crater rim with ejecta that's much darker than the surroundings. NASA believes that the distribution of the ejecta suggests that whatever it was that hit the planet struck from the west. [NASA]
A new long-term study of Eta Carinae has revealed amazing, never-before-seen features using data captured by multiple observatorie
As the exoplanet discoveries from Kepler keep pouring in, we're realising just how fantastically varied our universe truly is. Someday, we might see them with our own eyes – but these stunning travel posters from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory make us wish that someday is now.
