Friday, December 7, 2012 - 10:50am
Yesterday we posted a newly released satellite image of the United States from NASA, but there are even more dizzyingly gorgeous photos from the same nighttime series that you don't want to miss.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 12:12pm
Thanks to the photographers and cameras on the International Space Station there's no shortage of amazing space imagery, most of which is easily accessible online. One film student from Italy decided to take some of that footage and create a time-lapse masterpiece.
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 10:30am
NASA's gone and done it again. Here's a beautiful new image of the United States at night, courtesy of the the Suomi NPP satellite.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 4:59pm
NASA has had quite a year. The Curiosity rover, aside from an unidentified discharge, has been an huge success. So much of a success in fact, that the next Mars rover, launching in 2020, will be based almost entirely on Curiosity's design.
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 6:13pm
Curiosity has been on Mars for 118 days now, but she's still just getting warmed up. Since October, the rover has sampled and analyzed its first five scoops of Martian soil, and NASA announced the results (which aren't these results) at a press conference this morning.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 4:49pm
Stop and listen while I elaborate on NASA's latest discovery: Mercury might have water ice hidden in craters up around its north pole. No fakin'.
Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 9:43am
NASA has a huge arsenal of equipment set up to monitor the Earth's atmosphere. Satellites, balloons bearing instruments and ground devices all take up to 30 million observations every day. That alone provides interesting and important data but they are just pieces of the puzzle; a complete picture of all the activity in the Earth's atmosphere is only visible after the various data is layered together through climate modeling.
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 12:50pm
We currently think that the universe is some 13.7 billion years old. With that in mind, the zoomed-in cutaway above is pointing to a very, very distant galaxy, which we've observed 420 million years after the big bang. That means the light we're seeing from it spent 13.3 billion years traveling through the cosmos. Whoa.
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 4:16pm
We've known since February that the leading candidate for NASA's next major manned mission is a station located at the L2 Earth-Moon Lagrange Point out beyond the far side of the moon. The latest rumors suggest that this mission was probably approved by the Obama administration, and now that he's been reelected, it has a good chance of actually happening.
Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 10:56am
The tractor beam is one of the staples of science fiction, and it's becoming closer and closer to a reality. Just last year, scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research were "able to create backward motion of particles...
