On Twitter, Astronaut Scott Kelly Chronicles His Yearlong Space Voyage
Scott Kelly, shown aboard the International Space Station, answered questions from space via Twitter, on Saturday, Sept. 19.Credit: Scott Kelly/NASA Scott Kelly just started the second half of the longest consecutive space mission a NASA astronaut has ever completed. To celebrate, he took to Twitter to answer questions from curious space enthusiasts on Earth. “Entering […]
Welcome to Pluto! Dramatic Flyover Video Takes You There
A new video takes armchair explorers on a flyover tour of Pluto’s stunning and varied landscapes. The new Pluto tour animation stitches together photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby on July 14, which returned the first-ever up-close looks at the faraway dwarf planet. During the close encounter, New Horizons discovered, […]
A Cosmonaut's Bad Dream: Don't Miss Your Space Shuttle Trip
Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko spoke to TIME mMagazine along with NASA aAstronaut Scott Kelly Thursday (Sept. 15), where they discussed their year-long mission in space.Credit: NASA Space travelers don’t have to dream of flying, but Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, up on the International Space Station, revealed his own bad dream of missing the flight back to space […]
Quake on the radar
The combination of two Sentinel-1A radar scans shows how the ground shifted as a result of Chile’s 16 September earthquake To source
Great Exuma Island, Bahamas
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of small island cays in the Bahamas and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them. For astronauts, this is one of the most recognizable points on the planet. To source
'Uhura' Meets SOFIA – Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Flies NASA Observatory | Video
Actress Nichols recently rode a promotional flight on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft equipped with a large infrared reflector telescope. She describes the airborne observatory’s science quest. Credit: NASA To source
Rare Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Is Just One Week Away
With the huge supermoon lunar eclipse just one week away, it’s time to dust off your small telescopes and binoculars, track down an observatory event or webcast, or draft your invitations for a moon-cake party. Don’t wait too long — if you miss it, the next one isn’t until 2033. The supermoon lunar eclipse of 2015 […]
Life-Hunting Mission Would Bring Samples Back from Saturn Moon Enceladus
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on March 10, 2012.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute In the not-too-distant future, a spacecraft could deliver samples from an alien ocean to Earth, where scientists would scrutinize the material for signs of life. Scientists are developing a mission concept that would send a probe flying through […]
Cosmic optical illusions
Space Science Image of the Week: This whirling mix of galaxy arms, bright cores and shining blue gas makes up Arp 194, a turbulent galaxy group in Ursa Major To source
Best Space Stories of the Week – Sept. 18, 2015
Jeff Bezos announced on Sept. 15, 2015 that his spaceflight company Blue Origin would have a launch facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.Credit: Calla Cofield/Space.com This week, Jeff Bezos announced that Blue Origin would make a home on Florida’s “Space Coast,”; scientists confirmed that an ocean lies beneath the surface of Saturn’s moon […]
Personalized Book Will Launch Kid's Name to Space Station in New Contest
A new contest, ending Wednesday (Sept. 23), promises to send the personalized book “The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home” to the International Space Station.Credit: Lost My Name A new personalized children’s book will take a trip to the International Space Station bearing the name of one lucky child on Earth. The book comes from Lost My […]
Best Space Photos of the Week – Sept. 18, 2015
4 of 9 NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars Credit: Mars, curiosity, mount sharp, mars photos, mars surface, stimson, aeolis mons A new panorama from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows petrified sand dunes stretching across the landscape of Mount Sharp on Mars. [Read the whole story. ] 6 of 9 Awesome SpaceX Images […]
'Cosmonauts' Exhibition Offers Rare Look at Soviet Space Artifacts in London
“Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age,” now open at the Science Museum in London, provides a rare look at more than 150 Soviet-era spacecraft, spacesuits and other artifacts.Credit: Science Museum The capsule that launched the first woman into space, the most complete Soviet lunar lander still in existence and the 80-year-old original drawings of a […]