Google Exec Hands Silicon Valley the Stratospheric Jump Record
Just a little over two years since Felix Baumgartner broke USAF Colonel Joseph Kittinger's stratospheric jump record, Alan Eustace from…
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Making Cubesats do Astronomy
One doesn't take two cubesats and rub them together to make static electricity. Rather, you send them on a brief space voyage…
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 24, 2014
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) (more…)
This Is the Very First Photo of Earth From Space
These days we see photos of our planet taken from space literally every day. Astronauts living aboard the International Space Station,…
Comet Siding Spring Was Bleeding Hydrogen As It Sped By Mars
As Comet Siding Spring passed close by Mars on Sunday (Oct. 19), NASA's newest Mars spacecraft took a time-out from…
Stinky! Rosetta’s Comet Smells Like Rotten Eggs And Ammonia
While you can't smell in space -- there is no medium to carry the molecules, the same reason you can't…
Videos: From Space, Lightning Looks Like Creepy White Blobs
Standing on the ground, we're used to seeing the bolts and flashes of lightning during epic thunderstorms. But how would…
China Launches Moon Mission to Test Key Lunar Sample Return Technologies
China launched a robotic mission to the Moon today (Oct. 23 EDT/Oct. 24 BJT) that will test a slew of…
Beautiful Images of the October 23, 2014, Partial Solar Eclipse
"The Sun looks like it has a bite taken out of it!" said one enthusiastic viewer of the partial solar…
Asteroid 2014 SC324 Zips By Earth Friday Afternoon – Tips on How to See it
What a roller coaster week it's been. If partial eclipses and giant sunspots aren't your thing, how about a close flyby…