The company Orbital Insight is making sense of images of Earth taken from space. The firm was featured on Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2017 List. Fast Company’s annual list of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” includes a firm working to make sense of a flood of data coming from space. The Mountain […]
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How Greenhouse Gases Warm the Planet | Video
By Judi Stroh | March 10, 2017 07:34pm ET Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide absorb radiation and release it back toward Earth, causing our planet to warm up over time. [Full Story] credit : Live Science Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video Sh… CosMix: The Universe Is Alive […]
Kepler Telescope Beams Back Raw Data on Earth-Size Exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1
At least seven planets orbit the dim star TRAPPIST-1, located 39 light-years from Earth. Scientists, have at it: NASA has released raw data from the Kepler Space Telescope probing the many Earth-size planets around the star TRAPPIST-1. In February, data from the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that seven planets orbit the ultracool dwarf star , and […]
Long Lost Indian Moon Probe Found by Earth-Based Radar
An artist’s illustration of India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, which operated from October 2008 through August 2009. Powerful radar beamed from Earth has found a tiny Indian moon probe that last contacted its handlers more than seven years ago. Scientists used the radar to spot India’s 5-foot-wide (1.5 meters) Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter , which studied the […]
Seeing the Treasures of Messier's List with Mobile Astronomy Apps
The March evening sky features many of the beautiful objects in the Messier List, a catalog of “nuisance objects” compiled by comet hunter Charles Messier in the late 1700s. His first object, M1, is the Crab Nebula, the faint remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova that was visible in daylight in 1054. […]
Busy Road to Mars Opens in 2020
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission will use the “sky crane” system that landed the agency’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet in August 2012. Come July 2020, a half-dozen rockets from around the world will be preparing to launch an armada of rovers, landers, and orbiters to Mars in a multi-pronged attempt to learn if […]
Build Your Own Space Program with This Realistic Simulator [Sponsored]
If you’ve ever wanted a taste of real aerospace, look no further than Kerbal Space Program . Aside from the green cartoon astronauts, this computer simulator is all business. With it’s full-fledged physics engine and detailed modelling of multi-stage spacecraft, this celebrated game lets you manage everything that goes into a real-life space program. Not […]
Kamchatka
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-3 image of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
Potatoes Growing In Mars-Like Conditions – Time-Lapse Video
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Hubble Telescope Snaps Photo of Massive (and Weird) Hybrid Galaxy
Hubble collected this stunning image of galaxy UGC 12591, located in the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster. This hybrid galaxy is a combination of a lenticular and a spiral galaxy and is one of the largest known structures in the Universe. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of a strange hybrid galaxy 400 million light-years […]
NASA's Orion Spacecraft Parachutes Tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground To source
Orbiting in sunshine
Following three days of intensive work, mission control today declared the newly launched Sentinel-2B satellite fit and ready for commissioning. To source
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