The most famous storm in the solar system is also one of the largest: *******’s Great Red Spot. The storm is just a blemish on *******, but if you compare it to the size of Earth — this storm could swallow our entire planet whole. In July, NASA Juno spacecraft flew over the spot and […]
Update: On Tuesday, SpaceX delayed its launch from December 13 to Friday, December 15 at the earliest. Launch is currently set for 10:35 AM Eastern. For the first time since a fiery pre-launch disaster in September last year, cloud plumes surrounded Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral last Tuesday as SpaceX test-fired one of its pre-used […]
President Trump announced on Monday that the moon would be the next destination for American astronauts, putting the Oval Office’s imprimatur on what other administration officials have said for months. “It marks a first step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, for long-term exploration and use,” Mr. Trump […]
How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On Earth, natural resources for creating structures are abundant, but sending these materials up with us to the Moon or Mars is clunky and cost-prohibitive. Enter architect Xavier De Kestelier, who has a radical plan to use robots and space dust to 3D print our interplanetary homes. […]
US President Donald Trump on Monday will sign a directive aimed at sending Americans back to the moon and eventually to Mars, the White House said. Trump will sign “Space Policy Directive 1” that orders NASA “to lead an innovative space exploration program to send American astronauts back to the Moon, and eventually Mars,” spokesman […]
Nasa is holding a major press conference after its planet-hunting telescope made a new breakthrough. The Kepler space telescope is operated by Nasa to discover other earths, some of which could support life. And its latest discovery is significant enough to bring with it a huge press conference. Follow along with our live blog of […]
Winter Storm Benji Final Blows are Being Felt in the Northeast After Dropping Record-Setting Deep South and mid-Atlantic Snow Jonathan Belles Published: December 9, 2017 Winter Storm Benji is spreading snow to New England, after blanketing a swath of the South and mid-Atlantic with record-setting snowfall. Benji’s snow will come to an end in the United […]
Thick plumes of smoke and bright flames of the wildfires ravaging Southern California this week can be seen from space. The state’s biggest active blaze is in Ventura County, where the Thomas Fire continued to grow Friday and burned more than 200 square miles and destroyed more than 400 buildings. Another 85 structures were damaged, the county fire department said. […]
Who doesn’t love pizza? NASA recently treated its astronauts to some space pizza. It’s different from what you’ll find at your local pizzeria, but doesn’t look bad for space food. Following is a transcript of the video. This is what a pizza party looks like in space. The Expedition 53 Crew enjoyed their pizza on […]
NASA has unveiled its plan for its next Mars rover, “Mars 2020,” which will collect samples from the surface of the red planet. Following is a transcript of the video. Since landing Viking 1 on Mars in 1975, NASA has successfully put 7 rovers on Mars. But there’s still one major mission left: Send a […]
Not quite two years ago, I received a call from what appeared to be a Houston area code. When I answered, I discovered that the caller was not in Texas, nine hundred or so miles from my home in Knoxville, but rather two hundred and fifty miles above me, orbiting Earth. The astronaut Scott Kelly […]
With the announcements of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy and Big Falcon Rocket, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, and NASA’s Space Launch System, it can be tough to tell one rocket apart from the other. Following is a transcription of the video. NASA’s ****** V rocket was the pinnacle of technology during the Apollo era. More than 40 years […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently called out flat-earthers in one tweet: It’s not just lunar eclipses that would look different if Earth were actually flat. Sports, plants, and even the oceans would be radically different. With help from Caleb Scharf — author of “The Zoomable Universe” and director of the multidisciplinary Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University — we […]
In 1977, NASA launched two Voyager probes, equipped with golden records describing human accomplishment, on a mission to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. Each record catalogued our music, our greetings, our art and photography. Forty years later, both spacecrafts are still hurtling through space, exploring parts of the universe where nothing from […]
In January, Musk’s SpaceX rocket corporation plans to launch its first Falcon Heavy rocket, a long-awaited jumbo ride into orbit. The space and electric car mogul tweeted on Friday that the rocket would be carrying “my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster,” aimed at the orbit of Mars. Some rich men buy a red sports car when […]
Mars destroys tires — so NASA reinvented the wheel by giving it a memory. Following is a transcript of the video. NASA has reinvented the tire. These rover tires are made from a nickel-titanium alloy. A material that can be deformed and return back to shape. The super-elastic material allows it to “remember” its original shape. Rover […]
It was right around turning 37 years old when parts of me starting failing. My back started hurting, my neck started making weird clicking noises, and it became impossible to either sit down on or stand up from a couch without making some sort of “whoooof” or “ermf”-like sound. And that’s all happened while I’ve […]
The sky will be illuminated with a brighter than usual glow from the moon Sunday as Earth welcomes its first — and last — supermoon of 2017. This supermoon won’t be quite as special as last year’s. On November 14, 2016, the moon was closer to Earth than at any time in almost 69 years. The full […]
If you’re traveling to Mars, you’re going to have to bring a lot of essentials along — water, air, fuel, food. And, let’s be honest, you probably wouldn’t mind packing some beer too. A two-year journey — the minimum length of a Mars mission — is an awfully long time to go without one of […]
NASA is already gearing up for its next mission to Mars with a more tricked-out, updated version of the Curiosity Mars rover, the agency announced recently. New hardware for theMars 2020 mission includes seven new instruments, new wheels, a new drill to capture rock cores and a caching system with a miniature robotic arm to […]
HONG KONG — Thousands of travelers were left stranded Tuesday on the resort island of Bali as the eruption of the Mount Agung volcano forced the closing of the island’s international airport for another day. Continuing tremors radiated from the volcano, an indication of potentially increasing danger, Indonesian officials and volcano experts said. “Magma has […]
On September 15, NASA’s 20-year, $3.26 billion Cassini mission at ****** came to an end. The Cassini probe launched in 1997 and orbited ****** for 13 years, taking images of the planet and its moons and sending troves of data back for scientists to analyze. Before the spacecraft ran out of fuel, NASA scientists chose to kill […]
“Before it was something really, really hypothetical,” said Fabio Tronchetti, a law professor at Harbin Institute of Technology in China. “But now there are groups that are really serious. It changes everything.” Robert D. Richards, Moon Express’s chief executive — whose business plan is “to expand Earth’s economic sphere to the moon and beyond” — […]
On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini space probe plunged into ******’s atmosphere and burned up, concluding its mission after 13 years in orbit. Two days earlier, Cassini used its wide-angle cameras and captured this beautiful final photo of the planet it had studied for over a decade.NASA writes that Cassini spent two hours shooting a […]
A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket — in an effort to prove that Earth is flat — said he is postponing the experiment after he couldn’t get permission from a federal agency to conduct it on public land. Instead, Mike Hughes said the launch will take place […]
It started in 2001, a brilliant burst of light breached the skies. The event had released as much power as 500 million suns. Just a few milliseconds later, the signal had vanished. Astronomers call these powerful flashes Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Since 2001, about 30 have been identified. But, new estimates suggest one is happening […]
Cassini’s very last image before it died in ******’s atmosphere on Sept. 15 was a hazy, gray close-up of part of the planet. Now, NASA has released the spacecraft’s last complete look at ****** and it’s enough to melt your mind. The mosaic, released Tuesday, is an instant classic. Scientists combined 42 images for the natural-color […]
In 2015, scientists announced something incredible: They had strong evidence that there was liquid water flowing on Mars today. The implications were huge for the possibility of alien life and resources for future crewed missions to the Martian surface. Now, all of those hopes have been put on hold by a new study published in […]
Astronomers recently discovered a bizarre-looking object in our solar system that’s unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. It’s so peculiar that astronomers think it’s not even from our solar system. They’ve dubbed this mysterious interstellar asteroid “Oumuamua.” Following is a transcript of the video. This asteroid is not from around here. Turns out, it came from […]
Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal. Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program. Hughes’s ultimate goal is a […]
Biological contamination goes both ways, mind you. Just as important as keeping extraterrestrial organisms from reaching the surface (aka “backward contamination”) is ensuring that our planetary probes carry as few microbial hitchhikers from Earth as possible (“forward contamination”). To that end, in 1958, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a decree urging “that […]
Argentine authorities received a few blips of hope in their effort to find a three-decade old submarine — and 44 crew members — that suddenly stopped communicating during a routine mission Wednesday. That hope came in the form of seven signals to a satellite, which defense officials believe may have been attempts to communicate. Contact wasn’t made […]
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If you miss NASA’s space shuttles, you might like the Dream Chaser. The compact space plane carries no crew, but will transport cargo to the International Space Station in the years ahead and conduct other missions in orbit around the Earth. On Saturday, the vehicle completed an important milestone in its development. A helicopter lifted […]
The Juno spacecraft recently completed its ninth orbit around ******* and returned images of the planet’s cloudy, cyclone-studded southern hemisphere. ******’s moon Enceladus is well known for its active plumes, and scientists just got a little closer to understanding what might be fueling them. A loose, porous core could be the answer. Gravity tugs at […]
