by Karl Tate , SPACE.com Infographics Artist | September 28, 2015 03:53pm ET Discovery Story: Salty Water Flows on Mars Today, Boosting Odds for Life The announcement that liquid, salty water has been found flowing on the surface of Mars came as no real surprise to astronomers. Mars is full of water, mostly in the […]
A unique portrait of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen made for the Cupola observatory on the International Space Station by visual artist Vhils To source
Dark narrow streaks, called “recurring slope lineae,” emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. To source
Dark narrow streaks, called “recurring slope lineae,” emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. To source
The United States glows in the early morning darkness in an image taken by Scott Kelly aboard the International Space Station.Credit: NASA On the halfway point of his year-long mission in space, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this stunning image of the United States early in the morning. “Clear skies over much of the USA […]
It might be a bit easier for humanity to get a foothold on Mars than people had thought. Yesterday (Sept. 28), scientists announced that the strange dark streaks — called recurring slope lineae (RSL) — that appear on steep Red Planet slopes when the weather is warm are caused by salty liquid water. The discovery […]
An intense solar flare took out low-frequency radio communications over South America and the Atlantic Ocean earlier today (Sept. 28), and the unstable sunspot is likely to erupt again. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured an amazing video of the solar flare from space . At 10:53 a.m. EDT (1453 GMT), the medium-size M7-class solar […]
In the science fiction film “The Martian,” a powerful dust storm puts astronauts in danger on Mars. In reality, dust storms on Mars don’t pack such a huge punch, NASA says.Credit: 20th Century Fox Without giving away too many spoilers about “The Martian”, there’s an opening scene in the book (and upcoming movie) in which […]
The movement of waves in Saturn’s rings offers clues to activity and conditions within the planet. This natural-color view of Saturn was taken from 764,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) away.Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Unusual ripples in Saturn’s rings are revealing the mysterious inner workings of the great gas giant. Planetary scientists and modelers are slowly […]
KOUNOTORI5 Leaves the ISS Last Updated: September 29, 2015 KOUNOTORI5 being released by the ISS robotic arm(Credit: JAXA/NASA) KOUNOTORI5 (HTV5) was unberthed from the nadir port of Harmony (node 2) by the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) at 8:12 p.m., September 28 (11:12 a.m., September 28 UTC). Captured by the SSRMS, KOUNOTORI5 (HTV5) was […]
Dark streaks painting the side of Martian hills were likely formed by saltwater, scientists announced today (Sept. 28). What does the presence of liquid water imply for life on the Red Planet?Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona The discovery of liquid (albeit very salty) water on Mars may suggest that the Red Planet is more habitable than […]
Matt Damon appears as a stranded astronaut on Mars in ‘The Martian’ motion picture, coming to theaters in November 2015.Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Paul Sutter is a research fellow at the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and visiting scholar at the Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP ). Sutter is […]
The blood red 2015 “supermoon” eclipse was stunning in the night sky on September 27.Credit: Bob Wick, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Robert Wick, photographer for the BLM, contributed these images to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . The 2015 “supermoon” eclipse was stunning from the dark skies of the Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument […]