space
What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth
When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our…
Helmets in Space Supercut
It was only a matter of time: An epic mashup of movies with people wearing helmets in space, edited by…
- Cosmology
- Herschel Space Telescope
- Infrared Astronomy
- Observatories
- Spitzer
- Star Formation
- Stars
- Stellar Evolution
Orion Revisited: Astronomers Find New Star Cluster in Front of the Orion Nebula
The well-known star-forming region of the Orion Nebula. Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope / Coelum (J.-C. Cuillandre & G. Anselmi) Precise distances…
How Much Would it Cost to Launch Your House into Space?
House in Space, from a NASA Remix Challenge. Credit: Cookieater2009 on Flickr. Some people like an adventure, but don't want…
35 Years Ago: Our First Family Portrait of the Earth and Moon
A crescent Earth and Moon as seen by Voyager 1 on September 18, 1977 (NASA) 35 years ago today, September…
Google’s 5 Most Memorable Space Doodles
Google's one of those tech companies that makes a big deal about space exploration. There's not only the Google Lunar…
Flashback: 1978 NASA Film Shows Viking Discoveries
In what's a sort of foreshadowing of the upcoming August 5 MSL landing, which is being called "seven minutes of…
The Audacity to Dream
Making its debut at the TEDxISU (International Space University) event on July 6, the video above is an inspirational call-to-arms…
Water Balloons in Space
As part of his ongoing (and always entertaining) "Science Off the Sphere" series, Expedition 31 flight engineer Don Pettit experiments…
Smoking Wildfires Seen From Space
Wildfires continue to rage across the western United States, burning forests and property alike, and even the most remote have…