Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Launching Secret Mission Today: Watch Live
Editor’s Update for 11:30 am ET: The Air Force’s X-37B space plane has successfully launched on its fourth mission. Read our latest story: US Air Force Launches X-37B Space Plane on 4th Mystery Mission The United States Air Force’s X-37B space plane and a tiny solar-sailing spacecraft will launch into orbit today, and you can watch […]
Magnetic Orion
Planck portrays stellar birth and magnetic turbulence in the Orion Molecular Cloud To source
Strange Signal from Space May Solve One of Science's Greatest Mysteries
An artist’s depiction of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) in orbit.Credit: NASA A clue to one of the biggest questions in cosmology — why regular matter, rather than antimatter, survived to fill the universe — may have been found in data from a NASA space telescope. A new study suggests that gamma-rays (high-energy light) […]
Rare Quasar Quartet Is the First of Its Kind Ever Seen
This image shows a rare view of four quasars, indicated by white arrows, found together by astronomers using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The bright galactic nuclei are embedded in a giant nebula of cool, dense gas visible in the image as a blue haze.Credit: Hennawi & Arrigoni-Battaia, MPIA A giant nebula in the early […]
Andromeda Galaxy Is Surrounded by a Supersized Gas Halo
The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here, may be much larger than astronomers previously thought. Astrophotographer Lorenzo Comolli took this photo Nov. 16, 2012, from Bogli, Italy.Credit: Lorenzo Comolli One of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors is surrounded by a much bigger halo of gas than previously thought, new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal. […]
[International Space Station / Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO)] JAXA Astronaut Activity Report, February 2015
JAXA Astronaut Activity Report, February, 2015 Last Updated: May 11, 2015 This is JAXA’s Japanese astronaut activity report for February, 2015. Astronaut Kimiya Yui continues training for his upcoming long-duration ISS mission Astronaut Kimiya Yui, who was assigned as a crew member for the Expedition 44/45 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), underwent training […]
NASA Vehicle Changes Everything About Driving | Video
NASA’s Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV), developed at the Johnson Space Center for eventual use off-world, could change how Earthly vehicles drive as well; ‘sideways’ on 4 independent wheel-motors, each of which can rotate 180°. It’s an electric vehicle that can travel up to 62 miles on a charge. Credit: NASA/JSC To source
'Venus Zone' Narrows Search for Habitable Exoplanets
An artistic representation of the exoplanet Gliese 832c as compared with Earth. The large planet may be Earth-like, or it could have a dense atmosphere and a closer relationship to Venus.Credit: PHL, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the solar system […]
Cinco de Mayo Meteor Shower Rains Halley's Comet Bits on Earth: Watch It Tonight
This photograph of Halley’s Comet was taken Jan. 13, 1986, by James W. Young, resident astronomer of JPL’s Table Mountain Observatory in the San Bernardino Mountains, using a 24-inch reflective telescope. Debris from Halley’s Comet produces the Eta Aquarids meteor shower each May. Credit: NASA/JPLCredit: NASA/JPL When asked to name a comet, most people will […]
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 27 April – 1 May 2015 To source
What Is DARPA?
DARPA is an agency of the U.S. military that tests and develops new technologies. To source
Newborn Star Erupts After Binging on Gas and Dust
A young star in Orion’s dusty nebula roughly 1,400 light-years away has erupted after munching down gas and dust. To source
Citizen Scientists Discover Five New Supernovas
Over 400,000 volunteer citizen scientists have helped to identify over 2 million new celestial objects and five new supernovas in a wealth of data collected by the SkyMapper telescope. To source