<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”35″> NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Credit: NASA NASA’s successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, launches in 2018 and will peer back to discover the mysteries of the Big Bang. See photos of the space observatory’s construction in our gallery here. (This slideshow, originally posted in August 2012, […]
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Here's How NASA's Hurricane Satellite Fleet Will Work
All eight microsatellites in the CYGNSS fleet prepped for their Dec. 14, 2016, launch on a Pegasus rocket. The fleet uses reflected GPS signals to monitor developing tropical hurricanes and cyclones. Eight specialized microsatellites, slightly larger than carry-on suitcases, will launch from beneath an airplane Dec. 12 to begin monitoring hurricanes and cyclones in the […]
Sunrise With Solar Array
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Nov. 25, 2016, and shared it on social media, writing, “Sunrises. We experience 16 sunrises every 24 hours on the International Space Station as it takes us 90 minutes to do a complete orbit of our planet flying […]
John Glenn Memorialized with 'Godspeed' Radio Hail Turned Hashtag
John Glenn looks into a celestial training device in preparation for his Mercury-Atlas orbital launch in February 1962. Glenn died on Dec. 8, 2016 at the age of 95. The same phrase that hailed John Glenn’s historic launch into space more than 50 years ago became a social media hashtag on Thursday (Dec. 8), marking […]
John Glenn 'Embodied Taking Care Of Your People' – NASA Administrator | Video
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Japanese Cargo Ship Launches Toward Space Station
A robotic Japanese cargo spacecraft has begun its four-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The uncrewed H-II Transfer Vehicle 6 (HTV-6) launched Friday (Dec. 9) at 8:26 a.m. EST (1326 GMT; 10:26 p.m. Japan time), rising into the skies above southern Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center atop an H-IIB rocket. You can see our launch […]
Japan's HTV-6 Cargo Mission Launches To Space Station | Video
By Steve Spaleta | December 9, 2016 08:55am ET The H-II Transfer Vehicle-6 (HTV-6) launched from Tanegashima Space Center on Dec. 9, 2016. It is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Staton on Dec. 13. credit : JAXA/NASA Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video Sh… CosMix: The […]
DigitalGlobe Releases First Photo from WorldView-4 Satellite
WorldView-4 first picture shows the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo, where Japan hosted the 1064 Summer Olympics and plans to host them again in 2020. WASHINGTON – DigitalGlobe has released the first picture from its latest high-resolution commercial imaging satellite , launched three weeks ago. The photo, taken Nov. 26 according to statements from DigitalGlobe and […]
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 5-9 December 2016 To source
Holiday Gift Guide Pick – Playmobil Rocket Launch Site and Space Shuttle | Video
By SPACE.com Staff | December 9, 2016 06:49pm ET credit : Space.com Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video Sh… CosMix: The Universe Is Alive With Music Goddard Space Flight Center’s Best Videos NASA Edge NEOs: Near Earth Objects – The Video Show Inside Space Station – The Video […]
John Glenn Honored By Astronauts In Space | Video
By Steve Spaleta | December 9, 2016 06:13pm ET NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson said a few words in tribute of John Glenn aboard the International Space Station on Dec. 9, 2016. Glenn passed away at the age of 95 on Dec. 8, 2016. credit : NASA Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A […]
Dying Star Offers Glimpse of Earth's Doomsday in 5 Billion Years
Five billion years from now, our sun will die. After running out of hydrogen fuel, it will start burning heavier and heavier elements in its fusion core, causing its body to bloat, shedding huge quantities of material into space via violent stellar winds. During this time, our star will expand around 100 times bigger than […]
How John Glenn Drew the First Orbital Flight
John Glenn really wanted to be the first man in space. And from the moment he was selected as one of the Mercury astronauts, he worked diligently to stand out among his peers in the eyes of NASA’s top decision makers. But in the end, it was pure luck that Glenn ended up being the […]