Boeing Space Capsule Gets NASA's 1st Commercial Crew Flight Order
A Boeing CST-100 crew capsule approaches the International Space Station carrying a new crew for NASA in this artist’s illustration. NASA has awarded Being its first order for a commercial crew flight in 2017.Credit: Boeing NASA has awarded Boeing with the first order for a commercial crew change flight to the International Space Station once […]
As the World Turns: Night Sky Photographer Snaps Earth's Precession
The Earth’s precession is captured in stunning detail in this image by a veteran astrophotographer. In an email to Space.com, night sky photographer Miguel Claro said he developed a new photo technique showing a Vega “polar” star trail. The image was taken from inside the Mourão Castle, in the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, the First […]
NORAD: Tracking Spacecraft, Missiles & Santa
Volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base take calls from children wanting to know where Santa is.Credit: U.S. Navy North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a military organization that is shared between the United States and Canada. The group is tasked with looking for threats or activity in aerospace, which can include anything from looking […]
It's Crater-palooza on Dwarf Planet Ceres (New Photo)
A new view of Ceres, captured by NASA’s Dawn probe on May 23, 2015, shows fine details of the dwarf planet’s surface coming into focus.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA A new photo from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows the battered surface of the dwarf planet Ceres in unprecedented detail. Dawn captured the image on May 23, when the probe […]
NASA Mission to Europa Will Seek Conditions for Life
This “remastered” view of Europa is based on information from NASA’s Galileo mission of the 1990s. The 2014 view more closely resembles how the moon of Jupiter would look like to the human eye.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute NASA’s Europa spacecraft will use nine scientific instruments to assess the icy, ocean-harboring Jupiter moon’s ability to support life, […]
Selfies with Earth
Space Science Image of the Week: Fifteen years ago, XMM-Newton took a series of mesmerising self-portraits with our planet To source
Best Space Photos of the Week – May 23, 2015
1 of 10 Gorgeous New View of Medusa Nebula Credit: European Southern Observatory From the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane to new views of the odd bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, don’t miss these amazing space…Read More » images of the week for May 23, 2015. HERE: The Medusa […]
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 […]