By Adriana Lee |
Our “Major Tom,” the astronaut who has captivated the often fickle social webs, the man who brought interstellar awesomeness to social media via music, education and more is officially hanging up his space suit. After a 35-year career, Chris Hadfield is retiring on July 3. His…
By Adriana Lee |
If there’s one thing hi-res photography’s good for, it’s showing an amazing amount of detail. Users can see the minutiae just by zooming in, and depending on the scale, they can do it without necessarily having to sacrifice zoom-out macro views. Now here’s something that…
By Brandon Russell |
After nearly five months in space, three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew safely landed in a clearing to the southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. “Boy, that was quite a ride home,” said Chris Hadfield after successfully touching down. Hadfield, most notably, is…
By Adriana Lee |
Chances are, you’ve sung into a mirror gripping a hairbrush or lost yourself in your own air guitar virtuosity at some point. And why not? It’s easy to let the creativity flow in the comfort of your own house. And, it seems, that’s true no…
By Brandon Russell |
After discovering the ISS was leaking vital coolant for its power systems, NASA on Friday made the decision to send astronauts on an emergency spacewalk to fix the issue. And on Saturday morning, Thomas Marshburn and Chris Cassidy successfully replaced the troublesome pump. Did everyone…
By Brandon Russell |
The above photo isn’t a world imploding in the Star Trek universe, but an actual hurricane currently ravaging Saturn’s north pole. It looks breathtakingly surreal, beautiful, something imagined you’d expect in a scene from the first Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. It’s absolutely real,…
By Brandon Russell |
Researchers have discovered what’s being considered the most Earth-like planets ever, orbiting in that rare Goldilocks Zone of their parent stars. If scientists are correct, and data from NASA’s Kepler mission is on the money, these three planets, located 1,200 and 2,700 light years from…
By Brandon Russell |
A new project, known as Mars One, will shuttle you to the neighboring planet, but not back. The nonprofit said on Tuesday it’s accepting video applications up through July, and will begin weeding out candidates for a journey scheduled in 2023. For now, the Netherlands-based…
By Brandon Russell |
The Earth won’t be around forever, but you and I won’t be alive to see the end. It sounds ominous, and a bit insane. But scientists believe that the sun will go through some incredible changes in about 1.1 billion years, culminating in a pretty…
By Brandon Russell |
A new research technique developed in collaboration by Japanese and New Zealand astronomers could introduce a better way to spot Earth-like planets. Through MOA (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics), researchers say the new method could measure planets that fall out of the Sun-Earth distance scale—planets that…
By Brandon Russell |
After 35 years of careening through space—11.5 billion miles of constant traveling—a man-made object has crossed the threshold into the deepest unknown. Scientists on Wednesday announced new findings that suggest Voyager I has finally left our solar system, beyond the heliosphere and into a vast,…
By Brandon Russell |
All you and I see is a scorched rocky terrain. But what NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sees is completely different, and new data collected by the craft could change the way we see Earth’s most mysterious neighbor. Under the pitted canyons, flatlands and chasms are…
By Brandon Russell |
It was like any other Friday except for that incredibly insane, I can’t believe that happened, Russian meteorite. That thing, on the same day as the DA14 was whizzing by Earth, seemingly came out of nowhere, crashing through our atmosphere at incredible speeds before the…
By Maximum PC |
The STRaND-1 nanosatellite carries a Google Nexus One At a time when the who’s who of the mobile world are busy strutting their stuff at the Mobile World Congress, Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) Ltd are celebrating a mobile launch…
By Brandon Russell |
Holy wow this is incredible I can’t believe what I’m seeing. Just look at Earth to scale. We’re like a speck of dust compared to the Sun, waiting to be consumed in a fiery Armageddon. At least it looks friggin’ beautiful, actually seeing activity on…
By Brandon Russell |
A new planet, about the size of the moon, has been discovered about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. That’s about big enough for you and a few of your close friends. Dubbed Kepler-37b, the diminutive rock is actually part of a new…
By Brandon Russell |
Please come out from your Armageddon bunker. The world isn’t coming to an end, though Earth did get pummeled by a meteorite last Friday. NASA estimates claim the event was the largest rock—possibly 10,000 tons—in more than 100 years, and that it exploded with a…
By Brandon Russell |
The first drilling sample of Mars rock powder has been transferred from the Curiosity Rover’s drill to its scoop, ready to be analyzed for extraterrestrial life. That’s a huge accomplishment considering the amount of steps required, and the fact that the rover is millions of…
By Brandon Russell |
While Curiosity continues to comb Mars for life, scientists are actively sketching out plans to explore other potentially habitable regions. And on the list, much closer than that so-called Earth-like planet that’s 44 light years away, is the moon Europa, which researchers for years have…
By Ron Duwell |
Why wait for the professionals to release gorgeous images of space when a man can do it from his own backyard? Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman uses nothing more than an industrial strength webcam and a small telescope to create powerful images of the Sun from…
By Brandon Russell |
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly so close to Earth’s gravitational pull that scientists say the space rock could experience violent tremors. The asteroid, which is said to be about half the size of a football field, is expected to pass us by on Friday, and…
By Brandon Russell |
What if Mars was just like Earth—or at least an approximation? Because what the European Space agency has discovered sure suggests the martian planet has seen better days. Maybe it wasn’t always the barren, lonely desert we’ve always made it out to be. The agency…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA is going to purposely crash both of its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Spacecraft into a mountain on the Moon Dec. 17. For science. The controlled impact is a send off of sorts, as the crafts, which have been in polar orbit around…
By Sean P. Aune |
Jon R is back to tackle the biggest tech rumors of this week! It’s only been a couple of weeks since HTC has released the One X+ and the Droid DNA.. We’re already hearing rumors of a brand new super device currently codenamed the HTC…
