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.
If you were selected to be shipped off to Mars forever, would you take the chance? That's the question many potential astronauts will ask themselves this summer when Mars One begins its search. The company says that it will cost $6 billion to send the first four astronauts, and subsequent crews, landing in two-year intervals, will require a $4-billion budget. Continue reading for a video and more information.
Scientists at NASA have discovered the most earth-like planets yet, and they're named Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f. According to Eric Agol, a Univeristy of Washington associate professor of astronomy, Kepler 62f is about 1.4 times the size of Earth, receives about half as much solar flux, or heat and radiation, as Earth and circles its star in 267.3 (Earth) days. Continue reading for a video and more information.
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.
