An illustration of how Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from solar radiation.Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester Paul Sutter is a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP ). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and RealSpace , and the YouTube series Space In […]
Some of the crater names submitted by the public for Uwingu’s “people’s map” of Mars.Credit: Uwingu Still scrambling for a last-minute Christmas gift idea? You could always name a Mars crater for that special someone. The space-funding company Uwingu is running a promotion that allows customers to create holiday versions of the certificates they receive […]
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera — or EPIC for short — is living up to its acronym, by producing visually stunning and scientifically fascinating images of Earth. EPIC lives onboard NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), which orbits the sun about 1 million miles from Earth — a perfect vantage point to take a snapshot […]
Gene Cernan, commander of the last moon landing, tells his story in the new documentary, “The Last Man on the Moon.”Credit: NASA Forty-three years after he became the last man on the moon, Gene Cernan now has a launch date in movie theaters. Cernan, who as commander of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission took the last […]
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The new space-based adventure series “The Expanse” debuts on Syfy tonight, and it’s packed with high-flying action, interplanetary politics and intriguing locations. Based on the book by James S. A. Corey (a pen name for co-authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), “The Expanse” takes place 200 years in the future, when humans have settled Mars […]
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab, the United States’ biggest Large Hadron Collider research institution. He also writes about science for the public, including his recent “The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Things That Will Blow Your Mind ” (Johns Hopkins […]
In this one minute exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz is scheduled for Dec. 15, […]
In this one minute exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky as the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz is scheduled for Dec. 15, […]
A small, cool star is emitting flares 10,000 times brighter than those ejected by the sun, a find that could be bad news for those hoping to find the galaxy filled with life. The star’s massive bursts of radiation, revealed in new research , could inhibit the evolution of life on planets orbiting the star, […]
“Belters,” or people who are born, live and work in the asteroid belt, occupy a lower social class than the “Earthers” who need water and other raw materials…Read More » from the belt. When the story begins, political unrest brews in a colony on the asteroid Ceres. Less « To source
Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction classic “Childhood’s End” has been reimagined for the 21st century, and brought to the small screen, in a new TV miniseries debuting tonight (Dec. 14). When a fleet of spaceships appears in the sky above Earth’s largest cities, the alien beings onboard insist that they have arrived to help the […]