<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”32.5″> Alien Con 2016 Credit: Ramin Talaie / Stringer / Getty Images The History Channel hosted a convention for fans of the TV series “Ancient Aliens” and science-fiction enthusiasts in Santa Clara, Calif. over the Halloween weekend. Check out the incredible costumes and celebrity guests in this gallery. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Spaceship Wreck […]
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Watery Constellations Fill the Southern Sky
The constellation Pisces is visible in the southern sky in the Northern Hemisphere in November. But the stars in this fishy constellation are quite faint. Recently, we had a “psychic fair” in my hometown, and out of curiosity, my wife and I decided to see what it was all about. We were astonished to find […]
Week In Images
Our week through the lens: 31 October – 4 November 2016 To source
Hubble Takes Flight with the Toucan and the Cluster
NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away. To source
ESA and the Vatican join forces to save data in the digital age
At a ceremony held in Vatican City today, ESA and the Vatican Apostolic Library have agreed to continue their years-long cooperation on the preservation, management and exploitation of archived information. To source
Incoming! How NASA and FEMA Would Respond to an Asteroid Threat
A near-Earth object on course to hit the planet would require nationwide — or global — coordination to minimize threat. It’s a scary scenario: an asteroid headed for Earth, just four years away from slamming into our home planet. It may be too short a span to plan an asteroid-deflection mission , but it’s long enough […]
Undiscovered Moons May Lurk in Our Own Solar System
A 1986 image of Saturn’s rings taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, including two moons it found: 1986U7 and 1986U8, now called Cordelia and Orphelia, respectively. In the 1970s and 1980s, NASA sent twin spacecraft — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 — on a quest to explore the solar system. Both probes zoomed by Jupiter […]
Pío XI
Earth observation image of the week: Chile’s Bernardo O’Higgins National Park and the Pío XI Glacier, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
[International Cooperation] Turkey hands over samples to Japan for space environment long-term exposure experiment to be conducted under Turkey-Japan cooperation on Kibo utilization! Samples to be loaded onboard “KOUNOTORI6”.
Topics List Nov. 4, 2016 UpdatedTurkey hands over samples to Japan for space environment long-term exposure experiment to be conducted under Turkey-Japan cooperation on Kibo utilization! Samples to be loaded onboard “KOUNOTORI6”. In September, JAXA and the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications (MTMAC) of the Republic of Turkey signed a cooperation agreement on […]
[Earth Observation Research Center (EORC)] ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Observation Results on M 6.2 earthquake in central Italy.
ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Observation Results on M 6.2 earthquake in central Italy Posted: August 25, 2016, 8:00 (UTC)Updated: September 1, 2016, 7:00 (UTC) Updated: November 4, 2016, 8:00 (UTC) On August 24, 2016 at 23:00 (UTC), an emergency observation with the Phased Array-type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2 (PALSAR-2) aboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2, “DAICHI-2”) was […]
Curiosity Finds Iron-Nickel Meteorite On Mars | Video
By Steve Spaleta | November 3, 2016 12:56pm ET The Mars Science Laboratory came across an unusual golf ball-sized object on the surface of the planet on Oct. 27, 2016. After analysis with the rover’s ChemCam laser, it was confirmed that it’s an iron nickel meteorite “fallen from the Red Planet’s sky,” according to NASA’s […]
Schiaparelli crash site in colour
New high-resolution images taken by a NASA orbiter show parts of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module and its landing site in colour on the Red Planet. To source
Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake
New information on the effects of the 30 October earthquake that struck central Italy continues to emerge as scientists analyse radar scans from satellites. To source