While the Taurid meteor shower doesn’t have a lot of shooting stars to offer, the few that will streak across the sky in the coming days will be bright, spectacular fireballs. The North Taurid meteor shower is at its peak now! Skywatchers in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will have two different peak viewing times. But […]
Uber has teamed up with NASA to develop flying cars for passenger transport. Uber’s planned “flying cars” will navigate crowded city skies with some help from NASA, if everything goes according to plan. The space agency has signed an agreement with Uber to help develop an air-traffic-control system for the flying-car project, which goes by […]
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of a rare encircling filament, the circular structure at center, on the sun on Oct. 30, 2017. Typical solar filaments on the sun are elongated strands, making the circular feature a rare sight, NASA officials said. A NASA spacecraft watching the sun has captured a rare view of […]
WASHINGTON — Arianespace completed the company’s tenth launch this year Nov. 7, delivering a Moroccan Earth observation satellite to low-Earth orbit on a Vega rocket. The mission, Arianespace’s penultimate for the year, marks the 11th consecutive success for the Avio-supplied Vega, a light-lift rocket that has picked up a regular cadence now within the Arianespace […]
“The Sound of Silence,” by Disturbed — a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s famous tune “The Sounds of Silence” — complements the striking beauty of our planet in a new video released by NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The song fits the video well: Without any air to transmit sound, space is indeed completely silent. Russian cosmonaut […]
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) at his Nov. 1 confirmation hearing to become NASA administrator. The Senate Commerce Committee voted on party lines Nov. 8 to advance his nomination to the full Senate. WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee voted strictly upon party lines Nov. 8 to send the nomination of Jim Bridenstine as NASA administrator […]
This still of Ceres from a NASA animation based on data from the Dawn spacecraft in orbit shows the dwarf planet (and largest asteroid) as it appears to the probe (left) and with a gravity-field map overlaid in false color. Red areas indicate regions where gravity is stronger on Ceres, while blue denotes a weaker […]
NASA astronaut Richard “Dick” Gordon, seen here training for the Apollo 12 moon landing mission in 1969, died on Monday, Nov. 6 at the age of 88. Richard “Dick” Gordon, an Apollo-era NASA astronaut who became the fourth American to walk in space and one of 24 humans to fly to the moon, died on […]
Two SpaceX Merlin 1D engines sit on a test stand at the company’s rocket-development facility in McGregor, Texas. An explosion occurred during a test of a SpaceX Merlin engine on Saturday (Nov. 4) at the company’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, according to a statement obtained by Space.com. “No one was injured and all safety […]
Humanity just got some valuable practice in dealing with a potentially dangerous asteroid, astronomers say. A NASA-led international campaign to track and study the small space rock 2012 TC4 before, during and after its Oct. 12 close flyby of Earth was a big success, project team members said. “We are much better prepared today to […]
Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is one of the most easily identified targets for astronomers, largely due to its large and distinct ring system. The rings of Saturn have fascinated stargazers for centuries, ever since telescopes were first pointed toward the sky. When Galileo Galilei first observed Saturn in 1610, he thought that […]
[embedded content] NEBULAE – a cosmic meditation from Teun van der Zalm on Vimeo . A new video by visual artist Teun van der Zalm takes viewers on an intimate tour of computer-simulated nebulas — enormous cosmic clouds gas and dust. The Hubble Space Telescope gave humanity its very first up-close-views of cosmic nebulas , […]
Buzz Aldrin stands on the moon during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is the U.S. government agency responsible for leading the nation’s explorations of space. Its mission is “to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit […]