Aug 06
When you’re floating in space, it pays to be prepared, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the International Space Station packs a pretty impressive tool kit. Those obsessed by workshops and making, prepare to drool.
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Aug 05
In case you didn’t have enough to worry about, NASA says there are over 1,400 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) orbiting our sun. If it makes you feel any better, this visualization of their orbits is kinda pretty. The beauty of impending destruction.
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Aug 05
How NASA Predicts the Weather
Posted in: Today's Chili
America’s current combined fleet of civilian and military weather monitoring satellites are quickly nearing the end of their operational life spans. It’s a big deal; these satellites provide accurate weather reports for a lot of major government agencies including NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense (not to mention our allies). But while the DoD scrambles to replace its aging Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and the Europeans are launching their own HD weather stations
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Aug 04
This moon looks even more like it’s made from green cheese than ours does, but it’s not. Lame. Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system because of gravitational "tides" exerted by Jupiter and its other moons. And the constantly flowing lava gives Io’s surface frequent makeovers.
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Aug 03
Ever wanted to take pictures like an astronaut? Now’s your chance. There’s an original Hasselblad 500EL Electric Camera
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Aug 01
It’s hard to believe it, but Curiosity has been out there roving the Red Planet for almost a year already
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Jul 31
What Happens to Your Skin in Space
Posted in: Today's ChiliThought good old Commander Hadfield already taught you everything there is to know
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Jul 31
Two Moons That Pass in the Night
Posted in: Today's Chili
This image shows the rare sight of Saturn’s moons Mimas and Pandora aligning in the night sky—and they couldn’t look more different.
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Jul 30
During last week’s spacewalk aboard the ISS, astronaut Luca Parmitano suffered a slight—but terrifying—wardrobe malfunction: his helmet began filling with water
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Jul 30
NASA clearly loves 3D printing as much as we do
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