How To Take Photos Of Earth While Whizzing At 17,000 MPH
When you're flying above Earth in a spaceship or space station, taking a clear picture below is more than a…
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Gamma Ray Bursts Limit The Habitability of Certain Galaxies, Says Study
Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the brightest, most dramatic events in the Universe. These cosmic tempests are characterized…
What Causes Day and Night?
For most of here on planet Earth, sunrise, sunset, and the cycle of day and night (aka. the diurnal cycle)…
Humans Last Landed On The Moon 42 Years Ago Today
For a brief period in the 1960s and 1970s, 12 people ventured all the way to the surface of the…
What Does Space Really Look Like?
When you see the beautiful pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, you're looking at a lie. They're specially colored images,…
The Curious History of the Geminid Meteors
UPDATE: Tune in this Sunday as the good folks over at the Virtual Telescope Project feature a live webcast covering…
Moonlight Skating: Scenes from Winter in Sweden
"Nights like these are almost to good to be true," says astrophotographer Göran Strand. Glide along with Strand and two…
NASA’s RoboSimian And Surrogate Robots
Since they were first announced in 2012, NASA has been a major contender in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). This…
A Universe of 10 Dimensions
When someone mentions "different dimensions," we tend to think of things like parallel universes - alternate realities that exist parallel…
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Orbital Sciences Selects ULA’s Atlas V to Launch Next Cygnus Cargo Ship to Station
A United Launch Alliance Altas V 401 rocket like that shown here will launch the next Orbital Sciences Cygnus cargo…