Space Tech Meets Earth-Based Industry in SpaceCom Conference
Technologies developed in orbit can be of use to companies on the ground. This week in Houston, the Spacecom meeting will nurture that exchange. Pictured here, the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft is seen docked to the International Space Station.Credit: NASA Leaders and innovators of the commercial space industry will descend on Houston this week for a […]
Mars Rover Finds Rich Mineral Stew in Fractured Rock
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover probed a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on the lower part of Mount Sharp.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Chemical analysis by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity indicates that water made several repeat appearances to create the rich mineral veins at a site called “Garden City” in the lower part of […]
Fingerprints of Water on the Sand
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren took this photograph on Nov. 11, 2015 from the International Space Station. Lindgren wrote, “The delicate fingerprints of water imprinted on the sand. The #StoryOfWater.” To source
Fingerprints of Water on the Sand
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren took this photograph on Nov. 11, 2015 from the International Space Station. Lindgren wrote, “The delicate fingerprints of water imprinted on the sand. The #StoryOfWater.” To source
Space Travel Change Humans On Molecular Level? | Video
Thirty research studies have been approved for the one-year International Space Station mission, currently underway by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Researchers are trying to understand the long term effects on the human body during space travel. Credit: NASA To source
Pluto Goes Psychedelic in Brilliant New Photo
A false-color image of Pluto paints the dwarf planet in an unusual light, highlighting the slight color differences between its different regions.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto’s the prettiest dwarf planet at the party in this new, brilliantly colored image recently released by NASA. Researchers used a process called principal component analysis to create the false-colored photo of […]
A black hole in action
Space Science Image of the Week: Galaxy Hercules A reveals its spectacular jets To source
Call for Media: ExoMars 2016 leaving Europe for launch site
The ESA–Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 spacecraft are ready to depart Europe for the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to prepare for their launch in March. Members of the media are invited to join ExoMars scientists and engineers from ESA, Roscosmos and Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France on 25 November for a final glimpse of the ExoMars […]
Best Space Stories of the Week – Nov. 14, 2015
Photographer Porter Tinsley captured this stunning photo of Trident missile test by the U.S. Navy on Nov. 7, 2015 as seen from the shore of the Salton Sea in Southern California.Credit: Porter Tinsley Pulsars, dwarf planets and alien worlds break records, a strange space object falls from the sky and Pluto’s moons get weird — […]
Best Space Photos of the Week – Nov. 15, 2015
Credit: ESO/A. Plunkett Two almost-symmetrical jets of dense gas spurt from a single source at the center of this image. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…Read More » captured this protostar, known as CARMA-7, and its jets, which lie approximately 1400 light-years from Earth within the Serpens South star cluster. At least 30 more protostars […]
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A message from our Director General, Jan Woerner To source
US Navy Missile Test Sparks Surprise … and an Awesome Sky View (Video)
An amateur photographer thought the world was ending when she caught pictures of a Trident missile in action near Los Angeles. The series of pictures captured by Porter Tinsley, who posted them on her blog Less Than Amateur, show a white halo backdropped by the Milky Way. She took the pictures while standing on Bombay […]
'Star Wars' Costume Exhibit Reveals Creativity Behind Force Fashion
Costumes worn by Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, are part of a new exhibit in Times Square.Credit: Jeremy Lips/Space.com A new museum exhibit opening this weekend in New York City features dozens of real costumes from the seven “Star Wars” movies, and serves as an illustration […]