Buzz Aldrin modeling his new “Get Your Ass to Mars” T-shirt, the sales of which will benefit his educational ShareSpace Foundation.Credit: Buzz Aldrin/Facebook The 50th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon would be a fine occasion to kick off a serious effort to put astronauts on Mars, Buzz Aldrin says. Buzz Aldrin […]
The SETI Institute’s Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is hunting for radio signals from hypothetical intelligent alien life in our galaxy.Credit: SETI Institute E.T. was the perfect extraterrestrial: Cute, smart and — best of all — a perfect pacifist. Unfortunately, scientists aren’t so sure that an actual intelligent alien would be so benign. In a recent […]
The Project Apollo Archive is adding thousands of unprocessed, high-resolution scans of the Apollo astronauts’ photos to Flickr.Credit: Project Apollo Archive/Flickr via collectSPACE.com The addition of tens of thousands of the Apollo astronauts’ moon photos to an online repository drew worldwide media interest this week, but lost in many of the headlines were the facts […]
The early-morning planet Mercury is visible all month long in October 2015, with observers in the Northern Hemisphere having a better view than those in the south.Credit: Starry Night Software In case you haven’t yet set your alarm clock to normally awaken you at, say 5:45 a.m., this is most definitely the time to do […]
An image captured on the lunar surface during NASA’s Apollo 15 mission in 1971.Credit: NASA A huge new online gallery gives people around the world an up-close look at NASA’s iconic Apollo moon missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. More than 8,400 unprocessed scans have now been uploaded into the online Project Apollo […]
Jim Watzin, NASA’s Mars exploration program director, said NASA is now considering adding to the post-2020 orbiter “the sample rendezvous capture and return capability, which allows us to retrieve the sample from orbit and prepare it for the return trip home.”Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — A Mars orbiter NASA plans to launch in the 2020s could […]
Our week through the lens: 5-9 October 2015 To source
Satcoms are enabling smaller football clubs in Italy to broadcast their matches in high quality from 60 stadiums, via the Internet. To source
As the sun sets, our own planet can light up the moon and produce an ashen glow. The crescent moon lit up by earthshine was captured by astrophotographer John Chumack on Sept. 8. “That pale glow on the unlit part of a crescent moon is light reflected from Earth, also known as earthshine,” Chumack wrote […]
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Oct. 7, 2015. Sharing with his social media followers, Kelly wrote, “The daily morning dose of #aurora to help wake you up. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace” To source
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Oct. 7, 2015. Sharing with his social media followers, Kelly wrote, “The daily morning dose of #aurora to help wake you up. #GoodMorning from @Space_Station! #YearInSpace” To source
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field combines 10 years of images to capture the most distant galaxies ever seen.Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University and the HUDF09 Team Although time machines remain a sci-fi fantasy, the vast distances of the universe make it […]
The path to Mars goes through the moon — or the region of space near the moon, anyway. NASA aims to put boots on Mars in the 2030s after first gathering human-spaceflight experience and expertise in low Earth orbit and the “proving ground” of cis-lunar space near the moon. NASA has been working on this three-stage […]