NASA has captured the first images of a star’s supernova remains, having snapped the burst of radioactive material from the death hundreds of years ago of a star at least … Continue reading
Space is a weird place, and the quest to explore its mysteries in person has been no small source of strangeness and surprise. Here are some lesser-known facts about humanity’s ongoing missions beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
An asteroid roughly the size of three football pitches that was expected to hurtle past Earth last night has been lost by astronomers, after attempts to track 2000 EM26 during … Continue reading
The latest moon probe from NASA has recently beamed back what it sees on the moon’s surface for the first time ever. Known as the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft (also called LADEE if you prefer a far shorter and more convenient calling card), the new moon photos that were beamed and released by NASA a day before Valentine’s do depict stars as well as the familiar lunar landscape that is full of pockmarks.
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An asteroid 885 feet across and traveling at 27,000 mph will hurtle past Earth later today, with the close – astronomically speaking – fly-by of the space rock named 2000 … Continue reading
As much as some of us (ahem) were hoping the Mars mystery rock turned out to be a long-lost baseball from yet unknown aliens, the cause behind the rock’s sudden … Continue reading
Pictures of rockets, meteors and the Milky Way are all amazing. But one with all three makes for an overwhelming image indeed.
A year ago, Landsat 8 rocketed into space
NASA has picked Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures as its “preferred” company to manage iconic Hangar One at Moffett Federal Airfield, despite concerns that arguments over Google’s fleet of private jets … Continue reading
Google just snatched up a piece of American history in Silicon Valley. NASA announced on Monday that Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures LLC would take over the Moffett Federal Airfield including the iconic and hulking Hangar One, former home of America’s biggest blimps.