NASA’s SDO Observatory Sees Active Sun
A dark line snaked across the lower half of the Sun on February 10, 2015, as seen in the first image above. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows colder material as dark and hotter material as...
View ArticleNASA’s Spacecraft Provides Amazing New View of Mercury
More than 10 years ago, on August 3, 2004, MESSENGER blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a risky mission that would take the small satellite dangerously close to Mercury’s surface, paving the...
View ArticleNIROSETI: New Telescope Will Scan Sky for Infrared Signals from...
“Infrared (IR) light would be an excellent means of interstellar communication,” said astronomer Prof Shelley Wright of the University of California, San Diego, leader of the NIROSETI team. Pulses from...
View ArticleJapanese Robot Astronaut Kirobo Sets Two World Records
The robot was developed by a collaborative 5-year effort between the advertising agency Dentsu, the University of Tokyo, Robo Garage, Toyota Motor Corporation, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
View ArticleVesta Trek: NASA Creates Application Enabling Public to Examine Asteroid Vesta
“We’re thrilled to release Vesta Trek to the citizen science community and the public, not only as a scientific tool, but as a portal to an immersive experience that, just by the nature of it, will...
View ArticleNew Asteroid Discovered, Named for Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai
The asteroid’s name, 316201 Malala, honors Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The asteroid is about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) in...
View ArticleNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Turns 25
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – one of the most powerful scientific instruments ever conceived – was launched on 24 April 1990 aboard the Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. It offered a new view of...
View ArticleBlue Origin Tests Its New Shepard Space Vehicle
Founded by Amazon.com’s billionaire Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin is a private company developing vehicles and technologies to enable commercial human space transportation. The company has a long-term vision...
View ArticleStunning Time-Lapse Videos of Earth from International Space Station
The first video was taped by the crew of expedition 42 on board the International Space Station (ISS). The sequence of shots was taken on January 11, 2015 from 09:45:14 to 09:54:05 GMT, on a pass from...
View ArticleCarl Sagan Institute: New Research Institution for Search of Habitable...
The famed American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and astrobiologist Carl Sagan longed to explore other worlds, to learn if they, too, contain life. A research organization named after him,...
View ArticleFly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres in New Video
“Everything we learn from Ceres will be absolutely new. We approach it in awe and almost total ignorance,” said Dr Christopher Russell of the University of California, Los Angeles, who is the principal...
View ArticleEgypt’s Great Pyramids Photographed from Space
The Great Pyramids at Giza are the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and are perhaps the most famous of the ancient monuments in the Nile River Delta region of Egypt. They are also a...
View ArticleNASA Releases 4K UHD Footage of Life on International Space Station
“The view of life in space is getting a major boost with the introduction of 4K UHD video, providing an unprecedented look at what it’s like to live and work aboard the International Space Station,”...
View ArticleNSS Video Shows Dramatic New Horizons Flyby of Pluto
“NSS is delighted to support the New Horizons mission by helping to share this exciting milestone in space exploration with the general public in America and around the world,” said Bruce Pittman, NSS...
View ArticleNASA Releases Incredible Photo of Saturn’s Moon Dione
Cassini whizzed past Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles of the moon’s surface. During the flyby, the spacecraft’s cameras and spectrometers focused on the moon’s terrain that included ‘Eurotas...
View ArticleOpportunity’s-Eye View of Marathon on Red Planet
NASA’s Rover Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and has been studying the rim of Endeavour Crater since 2011. Currently the rover is on the west rim of Endeavour at the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’ crater...
View ArticleV404 Cygni: NASA’s Swift Space Observatory Monitors Powerful Black Hole
V404 Cygni is located about 8,000 light-years away. Astronomers classify this type of system as a low-mass X-ray binary. In V404 Cygni, a star slightly smaller than the Sun orbits a black hole 10 times...
View ArticleNASA’s New Horizons Completes Historic Pluto Flyby
The heart, around 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across at its widest point, rests just above the equator. Its diameter is about the same distance as from Denver to Chicago, in America’s heartland....
View ArticleNASA’s New Horizons Captures Clearest Image Yet of Pluto’s Moon Charon
A swath of cliffs and troughs stretches about 600 miles from left to right, suggesting widespread fracturing of Charon’s crust. At upper right is a canyon estimated to be around 5 miles deep. NASA...
View Article‘Earth 2.0’ Found Orbiting Sun-Like Star Kepler-452
The new exoplanet, Kepler-452b, is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone a Sun-like star. “On the 20th anniversary year of the discovery that proved other suns host...
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