Mars attacks … this time in a new movie called “Life.” To be released in the U.S. on March 24, the going-in theme as advertised for Life is that an international space crew discovers life from Mars . That’s the good news. But the delivery package of samples to their spacecraft from the Red Planet has an edgy side. […]
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SpaceX Isn't First Private Company to Offer Trips Around the Moon
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced Monday (Feb. 27) that his private spaceflight company SpaceX plans to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon in late 2018. But this isn’t the first time a private company has promised lunar vacations to private citizens. The two individuals who will make the historic flight have […]
Reverse Engineering: Satellites Designed Around Scientific Instruments
Artist’s illustration of NovaWurks’ Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat) in Earth orbit. Space researchers have long faced the challenge of fitting their scientific instruments into the small confines of satellite bodies. Although instruments have shrunk in size, so have the satellites; cubesats pose a particular challenge for researchers who lack the money to reduce the size of […]
Astronaut Helps Launch Science and Math Education Competition for Teachers
The Science Everywhere Innovation Challenge calls on science teachers to come up with projects that will get kids excited about science and math outside the classroom. Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin — a veteran of two space shuttle missions to build the International Space Station — will judge a new online fundraising competition to support […]
Spiral Galaxy Captured in Unique, Gorgeous Edge-On View (Video, Photos)
A stunning new photo captures a unique edge-on view of a large spiral galaxy, revealing remarkable details of the galaxy’s star populations and odd twists in its structure. The spiral galaxy, named NGC 1055, is located roughly 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (the Sea Monster). A recent image from the […]
Remnants of a mega-flood on Mars
ESA’s Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on the Red Planet. To source
Pearl Young at Langley's Flight Instrumentation Facility, March 1929
In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory’s Flight Instrumentation Facility (Building 1202). Young was the first woman hired as a technical employee, a physicist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the second female physicist working for the federal government. To source
Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole winds
ESA and NASA space telescopes have made the most detailed observation of an ultra-fast wind flowing from the vicinity of a black hole at nearly a quarter of the speed of light. To source
New American Spy Satellite Launches on Classified Mission
A new American satellite soared into Earth orbit today (March 1), kicking off a reconnaissance mission that’s shrouded in secrecy. The NROL-79 satellite launched into space atop a two-stage United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket at 12:49 p.m. EST (1749 GMT) today, rising off a pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NROL-79 will […]
Edge-On View of Spiral Galaxy Reveals 'Odd Twists' | Video
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Skywatchers! Moon 'Hides' Aldebaran, Venus Phases and More In March 2017 | Video
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Constellations and Planets In March 2017 Skywatching – Where to Look | Video
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[ISS / Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO)] ISS/Kibo Monthly News: January, 2017
Topic of the Month Deployment of CubeSats (January 16. Credit: JAXA/NASA) Successful deployment of six CubeSats delivered by KOUNOTORI6 Live broadcast of CubeSat deployment (Recorded Video) On January 16, 2017, from 6:10 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. (JST), during four deployment opportunities, a total of six microsatellites were successfully deployed into orbit from the Japanese Experiment […]