The year 2016 won’t be much of a year for realistic space movies, but apocalypse, beloved franchises like “Star Wars” and “Star Trek,” and romance on an interstellar stage will make for a year of epic adventure. And frankly, we can’t wait to see them all. Here is our guide to the most intrguing space […]
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NASA Research Could Save Commercial Airlines Billions in New Era of Aviation
The nation’s airlines could realize more than $250 billion dollars in savings in the near future thanks to green-related technologies developed and refined by NASA’s aeronautics researchers during the past six years. To source
CNES Vows To Get to the Bottom of Leaks that Forced Mars InSight Delay
The SEIS instrument qualification model for the Mars InSight mission in testing at the CNES facility in Toulouse,Credit: CNES/E. Grimault PARIS — The French space agency, CNES, on Jan. 4 created an outside board of inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the discovery of multiple leaks in an instrument intended to launch on NASA’s Mars […]
SpaceX Rocket In Great Shape After Historic Landing, Elon Musk Says
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX landed during an orbital launch on Dec. 21, 2015, rests in a hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.Credit: SpaceX The rocket that SpaceX landed in a historic first last month is in great shape and ready to be fired again, company CEO […]
Missing Electrons in the Atmosphere Possibly Found
The layers of Earth’s atmosphere. A mysterious decline in the concentration of free electrons occurs in the D-region of the ionosphere, a phenomenon known as the D-region ledge. Now, researchers suggest the ledge can be explained by the burn up of tiny meteors in the atmosphere.Credit: NASA/Goddard Scientists may have finally found the cause of […]
Sputnik Planum's Mountainous Shores | Space Wallpaper
Mountain sides of large water-ice blocks, varying from dark to light and some possibly revealing layers of Pluto crust, squeezed together to create the “al-Idrisi mountains.” The tumultuous terrain ends suddenly at the nearly level and lightly textured soft, nitrogen-rich ices of “Sputnik Planum.” [Find out more about Pluto .] To source
Distant Galaxy Merger Captured by Hubble Space Telescope (Photo)
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the galaxy NGC 6052, which is actually two spiral galaxies in the process of merging.Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt You can ring in the new year with some celestial fireworks, courtesy of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has taken a colorful photo of the […]
SpaceX Falcon 9 First Stage Comes In Hot In Alternate NASA View | Video
A NASA camera tracked the Dec. 21st, 2015 first stage landing of the commercial spaceflight company’s uprated Falcon 9 booster, a key step to lower cost, reusable operation. The vehicle can be seen, coming in fast, with a last moment deploy of its landing legs before touchdown. SpaceX Launches, Lands, Deploys 11 Birds Credit: NASA […]
Message to the Queen
British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s message to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland To source
Triple Play
What looks like a pair of Saturnian satellites is actually a trio upon close inspection. To source
Under the Starry Sky: Trio Watches Meteor Shower in Stunning Photo
A trio of skywatchers enjoy the beach watching meteors streak across the starry sky. Astrophotographer Deepanshu Arora took this image during Perseids Meteor shower week on August 18, 2015 at Cannon Beach in Oregon. Arora had just bought a wide lens camera and wanted to capture some shots of the night sky. He used a […]
Moon Mystery Solved! Apollo Rocket Impact Site Finally Found
The impact site of the Apollo 16 mission’s S-IVB rocket stage, which slammed into the lunar surface in April 1972.Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University A sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft has spotted the final resting place of part of one of the rockets that took astronauts to the moon, more than 43 years after the booster slammed into […]
'Star Wars' for Real: US Military Wraps Up Space War Games
The United States’ Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program supports missile early warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence mission areas.Credit: Lockheed Martin Think of it as “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” — but for real. The United States Air Force Space Command’s ninth Schriever Wargame, which took place from Dec. 11 through Dec. […]