NASA researchers have built the first working Star Trek Tricorder, and it's called the Scanadau Scout. This portable device can measure your heart rate, temperature, blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, blood pressure, ECG and emotional stress - just like Spock's handheld gadget. Continue reading for two videos and more information.
A space telescope monitoring the moon captured the moment a 40kg rock, the largest on record, slammed into the lunar surface, creating a bright flash of light. It was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. According to Bill Cooke, with NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office: "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before." Continue reading for the video and more information.
Mars One has already received over 78,000 applicants for its one way mission to the red planet, but they most certainly aren't the first with visions of colonizing the planet, as NASA started dreaming up concepts in the 1980s - 1990s. You'll see plenty of NASA's classic spacesuits, along with rovers, structures, and more. Continue reading for additional pictures, information, and a bonus video.
NASA has just released a mind-blowing image of a giant solar 'whip' on the surface of the sun, captured as a solar flare erupted. According to researchers, it's yet another sign that the sun is 'waking up' as it approaches its 11 year solar maximum. Continue reading for the full image and more information.
What you're looking at above was captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and shows the first close-up, visible-light views of a massive hurricane on Saturn's north pole. The bright clouds that you see at the outer edge are traveling at approximately 330mph. It swirls inside a mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon. Continue reading for a video and more information.
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You'll find the largest group of scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. We've rounded up ten stunning award-winning images captured by the group, starting with "The Crab Nebula" above. Continue reading for more.
President Obama recently announced that he wants NASA to capture an asteroid, launch it into the moon/earth orbit, and then used by astronauts as a stepping stone for an eventual mission to Mars. By 2021 astronauts would use an Orion capsule to land on the asteroid and bring back soil and rock samples for analysis. In the 2030s, it'll be used as a stop-off point for astronauts on their way to Mars. Continue reading for a video and more information.
Olympus Mons is basically a large shield volcano on the planet Mars. It stands nearly 22 km (14 mi) tall, making Olympus Mons the tallest mountain on any planet in the Solar System. This mountain stands almost three times as tall as Mount Everest's height above sea level. Click here to view the first image in this week's funny school pictures gallery. Continue reading for a video flyover of Olympus Mons.
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It's official, NASA announced today that Voyager 1 has left our solar system and is 'in a new region'. Voyager 1 crossed a point in space called the termination shock 8-years ago, and it has since been exploring the heliosphere's outer layer, called the heliosheath. Continue reading for two videos and more information.
V838 Monocerotis generated a flash so brilliant that scientists had never seen anything like it before. NASA has just released an image created using data from the Hubble Space Telescope that shows V838 expelling material into space. However, "what we are actually seeing is an outwardly moving 'light echo' of the bright flash - about a million times solar luminosity - from 11 years ago." Continue reading for a video and more information.
