SpaceX’s 10-Story Re-useable Grasshopper Rocket Takes a Bigger Hop
SpaceX is developing the "Grasshopper" reusable vertical takeoff, vertical landing rocket. Back in September, the 32-meter- (106-ft-) tall Grasshopper made…
You Need Just the Right Amount of Killer Asteroids to Promote Complex Life
An artist's impression of the different configurations of asteroid belts that could occur. Image credit: NASA/ESA/A. Feild, STScI Sure, asteroids…
Rare Supernova Pair are Most Distant Ever
High-resolution simulation of a galaxy hosting a super-luminous supernova and its chaotic environment in the early Universe. Credit: Adrian Malec…
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
The Curiosity Rover’s Ultimate Self-Portrait
The Curiosity rover self portrait. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems OK, we thought the low-resolution self-portrait from yesterday was great...…
Timelapse of Hurricane Sandy, Satellite Views October 23-31, 2012
Here's a complete animation of Hurricane Sandy from October 23-31, as seen by GOES-13, a geosynchronous satellite that is in…
Could Plasma Jet Thrusters Kickstart Interplanetary Travel?
A great offshoot from commercial space companies getting a foothold in real missions to orbit is that the old entrepreneurial…
Fermi Measures Light from All the Stars That Have Ever Existed
This plot shows the locations of 150 blazars (green dots) used in the a new by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope.…
Curiosity Rover Takes an Incredible Self-Portrait
Wow, what a view of the Curiosity rover! This is a self-portrait mosaic made from brand new images taken by…
Vesta Looks Forever Young
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a close up of part of the rim around the crater Canuleia on…