Sun Blasts Flare at Earth: New Year's Eve Storm?
This NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory observation shows a composite view of our sun in extreme-ultraviolet light. On Dec. 28, the sunspot cluster AR2473 erupted with a M1.9 flare, sending a coronal mass ejection at Earth.Credit: NASA/SDO You can say what you like about our nearest star, but as this latest solar eruption proves, it certainly […]
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Rover Tracks: Robots with Rock Star Personalities Rover Tracks: The Strange Case of Bounce Rock NASA’s Morpheus Lander Tests: Behind the Scenes Planning the Assault: Why Bomb the Moon? Protecting Space Robots…from People! Up Close: See NASA’s Test Firing of Ares 1 Rocket GOOGLE-ing Our Carbon Footprints Who Hates SPACEX and Why? – Elon Musk […]
European Space Agency In 2015 – Highlight Video
Meet the New Space Station Crew The Herschel/Planck Mission Return with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Planning the Assault: Why Bomb the Moon? Splashdown! Ares I-X’s Fall to Earth The Serious Search for Intelligent Life: 4 Key Questions Constellation Lunar Mission Way Off Road: On The Moon Transforming the Shuttle The Legacy of Space Shuttle Atlantis ISS: […]
Reading the Alphabet From Space
NASA’s Earth Observatory has tracked down images resembling all 26 letters of the English alphabet using only NASA satellite imagery and astronaut photography. In this image, the letter ‘Y’ is for yardangs, elongated landforms sculpted by erosion and similar to sand dunes, but instead comprised of sandstone or siltstone. To source
Pluto, Mars Water and More! The Biggest Space Stories of 2015
The year that was 2015 swept in a significant amount of space and astronomy science. NASA’s New Horizons probe reached Pluto after a decade of travel across interplanetary space, exploring the most well-known dwarf planet. But this wasn’t the only great solar system story this year; Ceres, Mars and the moons of Saturn also revealed […]
Mysterious Pulsar and Jellyfish Nebula Share Explosive Birth (Photo)
New observations suggest that a pulsar embedded deep within the Jellyfish Nebula may have formed at the same time; both remnants of an ancient supernova blast.Credit: Wide Field Optical: Focal Pointe Observatory/B.Franke, Inset: X-ray: NASA/CXC /MSFC/D.Swartz et al, Inset: Optical: DSS, SARA An explosion in space may have created not only a brilliant nebula but […]
British Astronaut Tim Peake to Run London Marathon in Space
British astronaut Tim Peake, pictured here, plans to run the London Marathon (or at least its equivalent) while on board the International SpaceCredit: ESA One astronaut is about to bravely go where no man has gone before: for a 26-mile (42 kilometer) run aboard the International Space Station. Tim Peake, a British astronaut with the […]
Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Amazes in Final Flyby Photos
The northern territory of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is seen in glorious detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its final close flyby of the moon on Dec. 19, 2015.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Saturn’s geyser-spurting moon Enceladus received its last close-up from NASA’s Cassini mission, and the results are stunning. Cassini made its final close flyby […]
Where to Land SpaceX's Recovered Falcon 9 Rocket Stage for Display
SpaceX’s recovered Falcon 9 first stage rolls up to the horizontal integration facility at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Dec. 24, 2015.Credit: Shannon Gordon via collectSPACE.com What do you do with a 15-story-tall space artifact? That’s a question that SpaceX now faces given the historic landing of its Falcon 9 […]
'Lunartic' Snaps Awesome Photo of Airplane Crossing the Moon
Living right on the flight path to Los Angeles International Airport delivers stunning night sky shots of the moon for astrophotographer Raul Roa . Roa took the image in Whittier, Calif.Credit: Raul Roa | TheLunartics Living right on the flight path to Los Angeles International Airport delivers stunning night sky shots of the moon for […]
NASA Sounding Rocket Lights Up the Sky: Photos
Credit: Thomas J. Lambui Astrophotographer Thomas J. Lambui sent in a photo of the vapor cloud from the sounding rocket launch taken from Smith Point Beach in Mastic, Long Island,…Read More » New York. between 7 & 7:30 pm on Oct. 7, 2015. Less « To source
Fire Breaks Out in Converted Saturn V Stages at Rocket Center
A fire broke out inside the former “Mission to Mars” ride at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama on Dec. 26, 2015.Credit: Gerrit Burke via collectSPACE.com A fire broke out at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama on Saturday (Dec. 26), damaging an out-of-use ride building that was formed from […]
Lights Over Tahoe: Milky Way Glimmers Over Emerald Lake
A long, exhausting hike near Lake Tahoe was worth the effort for one dedicated astrophotographer. Photographer Justin Majeczky captured this stunning image of the Milky Way over South Lake Tahoe in June and shared it with Space.com. “With an average slope of 45 degrees, loose gravel and lots of rocks to traverse these conditions didn’t make […]