For starters, the Moon is located approximately 386,243 kilometers (240,000 miles) from Earth and has a diameter of 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles). The Earth's diameter is approximately 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles). With that said, the fascinating images you're about to see show how six planets from our solar system would look in place of the moon. Continue reading to see them all.
The mind-blowing image of the sun beginning to rise over the South Pacific Ocean was captured by astronauts orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station. More specifically, the ISS was passing a few hundred miles east of Easter Island and the image shows the brightness of the sun and the incredible blue of the atmosphere. Continue reading for a video.
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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Yesterday, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fired its rockets for the first time after being released from its mothership, going supersonic. It's expected to make its first official flight into space before year's end. Previously, SpaceShipTwo has only completed un-powered glide flights. Continue reading for a video and more information.
The International Space Station (ISS) is basically a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It follows the Salyut, Almaz, Skylab and Mir stations as the ninth space station to be inhabited. The ISS is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. Continue reading for more.
NASA has just released an incredible video that shows three years on solar activity compressed into three minutes. You'll see solar flares and coronal mass ejections as well as the space weather that can send radiation / solar material hurtling toward Earth and interfering with satellites in space. Continue reading for more.
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.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit, who is currently on-board the International Space Station, spends his free time capturing long exposure images of star trails. That's right, what you see above is Earth as seen from the ISS as it hurtles around our planet at an average speed of 17,500mph. Continue reading for more.
