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Another view of Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster as it makes a smooth landing at a West Texas pad during a launch and landing test flight on Jan. 22, 2016. This image is a still from a Blue Origin video, which you can see here . …Read More To source

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this rare view of “thundersnow” in a blizzard battering the U.S. East Coast on Saturday (Jan. 23) from a window on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly via Twitter (@StationCDRKelly) As the epic winter storm Jonas bore down on the U.S. East Coast this morning (Jan. 23), astronaut Scott […]

On Jan 22nd, 2016, the private spaceflight company launched its New Shepard booster and capsule to an altitude of 333,582 feet (101.7 km). It marks the second time the same booster crossed the “Karman Line” (the boundary between Earth and space) and successfully landed. [See The Historic First Flight] Credit: Blue Origin To source

[unable to retrieve full-text content]From amazing photos of a SpaceX rocket launching and attempting to land on a ship at sea to overhead views of the massive winter storm lashing the United States’ East Coast, don’t miss these great space images. To source

Around each new moon and full moon the pull on the tides increases.Credit: NASA The first full moon of January will rise this weekend, coinciding with a massive winter storm that is expected to wallop parts of the U.S. East Coast with snow and ice. Full moons can incite a whole host of fears and […]

NASA’s Morpheus Lander Tests: Behind the Scenes NASA’s Morpheus Lander Lights Engine Rover Tracks: Being There – Controlling Missions on Mars SPACEWATCH: Scanning for Cosmic Killers Rover Tracks: Deep Water – Runs Still? Rover Tracks: Spirit at Gusev – Lucky Again Lucky Landing – Opportunity Mars Rover’s Bullseye for Science | Video GOOGLE-ing Our Carbon […]

James Bond Penetrates The Very Large Telescope Planning the Assault: Why Bomb the Moon? Hubble Service Mission 4 – Animation Moon Base Baseball? Why Not! Return to Jupiter Ep.2: Land and Deliver The Expanding Danger of Space Debris: Fragmentation Target: The “Fuzzies” – Galaxies, Nebulae and Comets Cassini – Saturn ISS: We may be changing […]

This high-resolution image from New Horizons shows the “shoreline” of Sputnik Planum on Pluto.Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Pictures are still filtering back from NASA’s New Horizons close-up of Pluto last year and one of the biggest surprises so far comes from the region informally known as Sputnik Planum. There’s a lack of craters on its surface, making […]

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite snapped this image of the approaching blizzard around 2:35 a.m. EST on Jan. 22, 2016 using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument’s Day-Night band.Credit: NOAA/NASA NASA and NOAA have their satellite eyes trained on the powerful winter storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast this weekend, with the […]

Skywatchers, get set. All five naked-eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter — are appearing together in the pre-dawn sky for the first time in a decade. You need only clear skies and your bare eyes to see them; no binoculars or telescopes are required. The most challenging of this group to see […]

A solar corona appears over Ama Dablam, a famous Himalayan mountain peak. A corona, one of the few quantum color effects visible to the naked eye, can occur when the sun (or moon) is observed through thin clouds. The light of the sun is separated into wavelengths by water droplets in the atmosphere creating the […]

New Shepard’s propulsion module stands on the pad after landing at the end of a Nov. 23 suborbital test flightCredit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — Blue Origin may be preparing for another test flight of the company’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle, based on an airspace restriction published by the Federal Aviation Administration Jan. 21. The temporary […]

Astrophotographer Jennifer Rose Lane sent in a photo of the full moon, taken on Jan. 5, 2015, in Chapmanville, West Virginia.Credit: Jennifer Rose Lane With the first full moon of 2016 set to rise on Saturday, it’s the right time to take a look at each full moon’s distinctive names for the year to come. […]