The advanced imaging used to peer into the darkest corners of space has been adapted to help fight blindness. Using this tech, scientists have developed a prototype device that inspects the human retina for early signs of age-related sight loss. From deep space, to deeply within ourselves, man.
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At 15:09 ET today, NASA sent a signal to decommission the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after ten years of tireless work shooting the galaxy in lower Earth orbit. NASA says GALEX will float around for another 65 years before it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially self-destructs.
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Ever feel like you’re all alone in this big, ol’ universe? Don’t. Because NASA has just discovered two prime planet candidates that fulfill nearly every condition necessary to life that we’re aware of. And according to William Borucki, chief scientist for NASA’s Kepler telescope, these two are the best bets we’ve ever found. More »
Human space travel comes with a host of problems, not the least of which is our general inability to survive in a vacuum without, you know, dying. But a new technique that’s done wonders for fruit fly larvae and could one day lead to the same for humans may have solved that problem. By bombarding larvae with electrons (as seen in the above video), Scientists discovered that they could get by in a vacuum totally unscathed. More »
Astronauts’ stays on the International Space Station generally last for around 6 months or more, so it makes sense that they’d start getting hit with a little nostalgia for the motherland they’re so casually encircling. How nostalgic, you ask? Very: 1,129,177 photos worth, to be exact. Rocket scientist Nathan Bergey had the ingenious idea to turn these ISS snapshots into the ultimate space scrapbook—by plotting the coordinates of every single image taken from space. More »
Early this morning, while most of us were resting peacefully in our beds, everyone’s favorite flaming ball of plasma decided to give NASA’s cameras a little show. More specifically, the Solar Dynamics Observatory managed to capture our sun’s biggest solar flare of the year thus far. More »
There have been rumors about NASA’s next major project ever since Senator Bill Nelson of Florida mentioned some jazz about wrangling an asteroid. Now a White House official has confirmed the plans to NBC, explaining the goal is to get samples within the decade, and then think about Mars. More »
Now that nuclear-thermal rockets are becoming a reality, we may very well be shipping off the first human pioneers to Mars (both safely and efficiently) in the not-too-distant future. This, of course, leaves the question of exactly who will become the first generation of Martian-Earthlings. More »
There’s been no shortage of Mars pictures since Curiosity landed. We’ve got Martian mountains, rover selfies, the works. But thanks to a little image stitching by a clever dude back here on Earth, now we have Mars Street View, kind of. More »
We’ve known for ages that the universe is 13 and a quarter billionish years old for a while, but now a recent study is tweaking that number just slightly. Findings by the European Space Agency’s Planck space probe show that the universe is about 80 million years older than previously thought, bringing the total to 13.81 billion. More »
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