Scott Robertson is one of my favorite concept designers of all time, a true master (both figuratively and literally). Anyone who loves science fiction and space and cars and mechs and any kind of awesome vehicle should own at least Blast and Drive. Here’s a tiny sample of his extraordinary work.
This might look like a splash of cream in your coffee—but in fact it’s Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, imaged by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft.
If you’re still a little confused about why everyone is talking about The Big Bang and gravitational waves and cosmic inflation and space and twists of light and so forth, it’s okay. Much smarter people are taking care of answering those questions for humanity. But it’s a big effing deal so us less wrinkled brain humans should try and understand it too. How? Simple. With a towel, an apple and a ping pong ball.
It’s been almost five years since Gizmodo first reported on the Thirty Meter Telescope
According to very real and totally verifiable scientific research, we might live in a multiverse. No, really. The same research that revealed the first-ever direct evidence of Big Bang inflation
A massive solar storm in July 2012 was more intense than thought—and it blasted right through the Earth’s orbit. Luckily for us, we were on the other side of the sun, thus missing the chaos completely. But if that storm had hit this beautiful little blue marble in space? "The solar bursts would have enveloped Earth in magnetic fireworks matching the largest magnetic storm ever reported on Earth, the so-called Carrington event of 1859," Science Daily reports.
The Earth is the only planet we are sure has liquid water on its surface. One of the other celestial bodies in our solar system that is thought to have … Continue reading
NASA scientists have rolled out a new interactive mosaic that has been created of the Moon’s North Pole. The mosaic was made using the cameras on the LRO spacecraft. Resolution … Continue reading
Red Bull Stratos: Mission to the Edge of Space exhibit lands at the Smithsonian
Posted in: Today's ChiliRed Bull pulled off one of the most impressive feats ever with the jump of Felix Baumgartner from the edge of space in late 2012. This was more than a … Continue reading
Sony is working with NASA to turn Project Morpheus, its new virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4, into both a science and an entertainment tool. The collaboration, revealed at GDC … Continue reading