NASA is celebrating the New Year on Mars on June 19, 2015. One Mars year is 687 days long, nearly twice the time of an Earth year, due to Mars’ longer orbit around the sun.Credit: NASA It’s New Year’s Day on the Red Planet today and NASA is celebrating in style with an epic three-day […]
This photo, taken by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station, shows Tropical Storm Bill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 15, 2015.Credit: Scott Kelly/NASA Tropical Storm Bill lurks menacingly near the coast of Texas in a photo taken from space yesterday (June 15). The image was captured from the International Space […]
Meteorites from Mars found on Earth have traces of methane, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the Red Planet, scientists say. But the methane detection alone is not proof that life exists on Mars now or in the past, they add.Credit: Image by Michael Helfenbein Methane, a potential sign […]
JPL engineers Joel Steinkraus and Farah Alibay display a full-scale mechanical mock-up of a MarCO 6U cubesat.Credit: JPL WASHINGTON — Two tiny cubesats, the first NASA plans to send to another planet, will keep watch on the agency’s InSight mission as it descends to the Martian surface in September 2016, an agency official said June 9. […]
The many “faces” of Pluto are visible in new images by NASA’s New Horizon’s probe, which is only one month away from the first-ever close encounter with the dwarf planet. This week, NASA released what it called “the best views ever obtained of the Pluto system” taken by New Horizons, which will make its closest […]
“Happy Constellations” by artist Fin’es Scott, one of The Museum of Flight’s 25 “Astronauts on the Town” art statues, is on display at Theo Chocolate in Seattle, Washington.Credit: The Museum of Flight Some two dozen astronauts are landing under Seattle’s Space Needle and if you can snap a selfie with one or more of them, […]
A cosmic butterfly of a nebula is undergoing a stunning metamorphosis in space, according to new images from a telescope in Chile. The celestial view, captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, is actually the result of dust spit out of a dying star that is then shaped by a stellar companion to […]
This image from a pilot project, the Deep Lens Survey (DLS), offers up an example of what the sky will look like when observed by LSST. The images from LSST will have twice DLS’ depth and resolution, while also covering 50,000 times the area of this particular image, and in six different optical colors.Credit: Deep […]
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) robot has 4 limbs and can become quite handy in disaster situations. The robot’s mission (and how it could accomplish it) is the subject of the the latest “Crazy Engineering” episode from NASA JPL. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech To source
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]