Pablo Carlos Budassi created a dazzling logarithmic visualization of the observable universe in 2013.Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Wikimedia Commons An enterprising artist has taken on one of the biggest concepts known to man: the universe. Pablo Carlos Budassi is drawing eyes across the Internet this week for a dazzling logarithmic visualization of the observable universe that […]
An artist’s image of the exoplanet HD 189733b as starlight streams through the planet’s atmosphere. Scientists are searching atmospheres on other planets for possible signs of life.Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI) The search for signs of life beyond the solar system is kicking into a higher gear. Scientists are working to compile a […]
The latest astronomical discoveries in dark matter, exoplanets and more will take center stage as the so-called Super Bowl of Astronomy, the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, kicks off in Kissimmee, Florida this week.Credit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) Astronomers and space scientists are flocking to Kissimmee, […]
Space Science Image of the Week: The ExoMars Schiaparelli module is unpacked in a cleanroom in Baikonur, to be prepared for launch in March To source
Read about ESA’s service module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon and beyond To source
2016 will be another exciting year for the European Space Agency To source
Celestron’s SkyProdigy 130 Newtonian Reflector can align itself to the sky using its built-in StarSense camera. Space.com’s @DavidSkyBrody shows what you get and how to put it together. Read his full review: http://www.space.com/31227-best-hobbyist-telescopes.html Credit: Space.com / @DavidSkyBrody To source
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appears to have an open mind when it comes to the possibility of alien life. Clinton thinks Earth may have been visited by alien lifeforms already, and she intends to investigate the UFO (unidentified flying object) phenomenon comprehensively, according to a recent story in New Hampshire’s Conway Daily Sun newspaper […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]