By Steve Spaleta | October 31, 2016 09:12am ET Audio from conversations between Jet Propulsion Laboratory team members and astronaut John Glenn, presidents Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson have be unearthed. The conversations were about America’s first communications satellites. credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video […]
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How Many Planets Can Fit Inside a Star's Habitable Zone?
An artist’s illustration of various exoplanets and suns. How many planets can fit into the habitable zone around a star? A group of scientists saw this question posed by a non-scientist on Reddit and decided to answer it. The answer they came up with is five rocky planets the mass of Earth around a small, […]
These Scary Things in Space Will Haunt Your Dreams
Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory This evil eye-shaped nebula, formally named Fomalhaut , strikes an eerie resemblance to the fearful Eye of […]
It's the Great Pumpkin (Shaped Star), Charlie Brown!
A new NASA video explains the origin of a mammoth, pumpkin-shaped star, which is blasting off powerful X-rays and spinning so fast it’s squashed to look like the festive gourd. The massive orange star, called KSw 71, is the most extreme found in a new study. It is more than 10 times the size of […]
Mars' Newest Crater Could Be a Target for Science
Zoomed-in view of an Oct. 25, 2016, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the crater gauged out by the impact of Europe’s Schiaparelli lander on Oct. 19, 2016 (center). The inset at upper right shows the vehicle’s front heat shield. Scientists and engineers had hoped Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander would […]
Snowy 'Veins' of Siberia Captured in Haunting Image from Space
The area’s flat-topped mountains led to the intricate lake and river systems seen today. The remote and frosty landscape of Siberia looks like a tree’s snow-covered roots or veins in a newly released photo taken from space. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite captured the detailed topography of the snowy Putorana Plateau in central […]
Monster Chinese Telescope to Join Tabby's Star Alien Hunt
The world’s largest single-dish radio telescope will join the hunt for intelligent aliens that could be building a “megastructure” around the star KIC 8462852 — otherwise known as “Tabby’s Star.” The recently completed Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, or “FAST,” occupies a valley in the southwestern Guizhou province of China. With a diameter of 500 meters, […]
A sinister skyscape
Space Science Image of the Week: An unusually bright and sudden aurora looms over Iceland, adopting the spooky form of a writhing celestial serpent To source
These NASA Photos of a Space Station Crew Landing Are Simply Gorgeous
In Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday October 30, 2016 (Kazakh time) the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft with the Expedition 49 crewmembers returns after 115 days in space. When the Expedition 49 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) came to an end over the weekend, three space travelers returned to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft while a NASA […]
Soyuz Space Capsule Lands Safely with Crew of 3
Three space travelers are safely back on Earth after a 115-day stay on the International Space Station . Returning on a Russian Soyuz space capsule, U.S. astronaut Kate Rubins of NASA, Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi landed near Kazakhstan at 9:58 a.m. local time on Sunday […]
SpaceX Narrows Down Cause of Falcon 9 Pad Explosion
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes Sept. 1 during fueling operation in preparation for a static-fire test. NEW YORK — SpaceX said Oct. 28 that it is able to replicate the failure of a helium tank that is suspected, but yet to be confirmed, as the cause of a Falcon 9 pad explosion nearly two months […]
Election Only the Start of a Long-Term NASA Transition
NASA’s famous emblem. WASHINGTON — A presidential transition process that will start in earnest at NASA after Election Day in November will not wrap up until long after Inauguration Day in January, an agency official said Oct. 25. While both Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump established transition teams after accepting […]
International Space Station's Expedition 49 Crew Lands In Kazakhstan | Video
By Steve Spaleta | October 30, 2016 08:07am ET Commander Anatoly Ivanishin (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins (NASA) and Takuya Onishi (JAXA) landed on October 30, 2016 aboard a Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft. (Full Story ) credit : NASA/Roscosmos Watch more ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space Plane | Video Sh… CosMix: The […]