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Spacewalking Pro Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (center) poses with crewmates Shane Kimbrough of NASA (right) and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency ahead of a Jan. 13, 2017 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Kimbrough and Pesquet are taking another spacewalk on March 24. Underwater for Outer Space Credit: Bill Brassard (NBL)/NASA […]

The fate of a meteor shower that seemed to disappear after the 1950s may have been uncovered by a group of Japanese scientists.  The Phoenicid meteor shower (named after the constellation Phoenix) was first observed in Dec. 5, 1956, over the Indian Ocean by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, according to a statement from […]

People as far south as Ohio and Indiana may be able to see the northern lights tonight (Sept. 6), thanks to a powerful sun storm. On Monday (Sept. 4), the sun blasted out a huge cloud of superheated plasma known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). This fast-moving CME is expected to slam into Earth […]

NASA’s record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson and her crewmate Jack Fischer received a special welcome-home phone call from President Donald Trump on Sunday evening (Sept. 3) as the two space travelers flew back to Houston after their return from the International Space Station (ISS).  Whitson, Fischer and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin returned to Earth on Saturday (Sept. […]

Look at space under a microscope and what do you see? Nothing. Magnify 1,000 times. Nothing. Magnify 1,000,000 times. Still nothing. Magnify 1,000,000,000 times. Absolutely nothing. At this point, the average person would probably be satisfied with the conclusion that space is, in fact, nothing. This makes intuitive sense, after all, and besides, we’re already […]

To anyone infatuated with science fiction, a Dyson sphere might be the Holy Grail. As physicist Freeman Dyson postulated and popularized more than half a century ago, an advanced, energy-hungry civilization might be driven to harvest as much power from their life giving star as possible, prompting them to erect a gigantic structure that would […]

On Tuesday (Sept. 5) marks 40 years since the launch of the Voyager probes and the start of one of NASA’s most ambitious programs to date, and the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) wants to share this extraordinary milestone with the public by offering two wonderful online resources. The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft launched […]

Galactic winds that bowled through ancient galaxies and strangled star formation may not have been quite as destructive as previously thought: A new study shows these winds may have also created reservoirs of gas where star formation could continue.  The discovery came from the first-ever detection of carbon hydride (CH+) in ancient “starburst” galaxies , […]

[embedded content] WASHINGTON — Ground-based observations of PT Telkom’s 18-year old Telkom-1 satellite show a large cloud of debris generated the night the satellite lost contact with customers across Indonesia. ExoAnalytic Solutions, a commercial space-situational-awareness company that employs a network of telescopes to track satellites and other orbital objects, recorded the event Aug. 25. That […]

The Reiner Gamma “lunar swirl” imaged by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. A novel mission concept from NASA would lower a small satellite toward the surface of the moon on a 112-mile-long (180 kilometers) tether. One of the mission’s goals would be to uncover the cause of strange, swirling patterns found in more than 100 locations […]

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson smiles after returning to Earth on a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan on Sept. 3, 2017 local time (Sept. 2 EDT), ending a record-breaking mission to the International Space Station. Three space travelers safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station today (Sept. 2) as their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft touched down […]

A couple in South Carolina has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company sold faulty solar eclipse glasses that did not adequately protect their eyes during last week’s eclipse. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in a South Carolina federal court on Tuesday (Aug. 29), according to Reuters . The lawsuit says that […]

Citizen scientist David Englund created this impressionist-style artwork using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The original image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 10:12 p.m. EDT (0212 GMT July 11), as the Juno spacecraft performed its 6th science flyby of Jupiter. The probe was at an altitude of 10,274 miles […]