Amazing Total Solar Eclipse Photos Show 'Black Hole in the Sky'
Photographers turned out in force to capture views of the spectacular total solar eclipse visible from Indonesia and across Southeast Asia Wednesday (March 9) — and their varied, beautiful images show the many faces of that celestial event. Here’s a sampling of the amazing solar eclipse snapshots we found in our mail today. NASA tracked the […]
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Technology image of the week: Tenerife, as imaged by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, is set to host the Big Data from Space conference To source
Proba-2's partial eclipse
ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite watched the Pacific’s partial solar eclipse from up in Earth orbit To source
Orbital ATK Names Space Station Freighter for Fallen Columbia Astronaut
The S.S. Rick Husband Cygnus spaceship is seen being prepared for Orbital ATK’s OA-6 space station resupply mission, which is scheduled to launch on March 22, 2016. Credit: NASA/Bill White The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station will fly with the name of the late NASA astronaut who commanded […]
NASA Quarter-Scale Space Shuttle Model Lands in Georgia for Display
A quarter-scale replica of a NASA space shuttle used in the 1970s for vibration and load testing will go on display at Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center in Georgia. Credit: CCSSC The largest sub-scale engineering model of a NASA space shuttle ever built has touched down at a Georgia airport, where the almost […]
NASA Aims to Launch Troubled Mars Lander in May 2018
Artist’s illustration of NASA’s InSight lander on the Martian surface. InSight is now scheduled to launch on May 5, 2018, after a two-year delay. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has decided to save, rather than scrap, a robotic Mars mission that missed its launch opportunity this month. The space agency is now targeting a May 2018 liftoff […]
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Blue Origin Plans Growth Spurt This Year
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos poses with part of a BE-4 engine nozzle during a media tour of the company’s headquarters in Kent, Washington, on March 8. Credit: Jeff Foust/SpaceNews KENT, Wash. — Blue Origin plans to grow significantly over the next year as the company ramps up development of its BE-4 engine and an […]
Ariane 5 launch contributes to Ariane 6 development
An Ariane 5 lifted off this morning to deliver telecom satellite Eutelsat-65 West A into its planned transfer orbit. Liftoff of flight VA229 occurred at 05:20 GMT (02:20 local time, 06:20 CET) from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. To source
Journey to the Red Planet: A Mars Missions Timeline
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), named Curiosity, as seen fully deployed on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 during a media photo opportunity inside Kennedy Space Center’s Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility in Florida. Credit: Robert Z. Pearlman/SPACE.com Editor’s Note: The following timeline was updated on March 8, 2016. Getting to Mars has never been easy. In […]
Destination Mars: A Timeline of Red Planet Landings
Sky Crane in aerial ballet mode during the descent of NASA’s Curiosity rover to the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Editor’s Note: NASA’s Curiosity Rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface on Aug. 5, 2014, and has been exploring the Red Planet ever since. The following timeline was updated on March 8, 2016. NASA’s newest […]
'A Beautiful Planet' IMAX Trailer Offers 1st Look at Astronauts' Earth Views
A new trailer for “A Beautiful Planet,” narrated by actress Jennifer Lawrence, previews the IMAX 3D space film about Earth. Credit: IMAX “It was just overwhelmingly beautiful.” Those words, spoken by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in the newly-released movie trailer for “A Beautiful Planet,” summarize the IMAX 3D film, which opens in theaters on April […]
Slippery Asteroid Surprises Scientists With Early Earth Flyby
This NASA graphic depicts the orbit of asteroid 2013 TX68, which flew by Earth on March 7, 2016 at a distance of about 2.54 million miles (4.09 million kilometers). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An asteroid zoomed past Earth at a safe distance Monday (March 7), a day earlier than scientists had predicted. The near-Earth asteroid 2013 TX68 […]