Atlas V Fire and Fury Get Gorgeous GOES-R to Geostationary Orbit; Photo/Video Gallery
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The fire and fury of the mighty Atlas V got the gorgeous NASA/NOAA GOES-R weather…
What If We Do Find Aliens?
We've been so busy wondering how we'll find aliens that we never stopped to consider what we'll do if we…
What is the CERN Particle Accelerator?
Located beneath the border between France and Switzerland is the CERN Particle Accelerator, the largest instrument of its kind in…
Carnival of Space #484
It's that time again! This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Pamela Hoffman at the Everyday Spacer blog. Click…
How Do We Settle on Jupiter’s Moons?
Jupiter's largest moons - aka. the Galilean Moons - could one day be colonized, providing humanity with limitless resources and…
‘Global Warming Hiatus’ Not Good News For Planet Earth
The slowdown in the rise of the global mean surface temperature between 1998 and 2013 wasn't a slowdown at all.…
Is There Life on Mars?
You know what would be exciting? Finding life on Mars. What is the best evidence we’ve seen for life on…
Cassini Is About To Graze Saturn’s Rings In Mission Endgame
There is a Twitter-bot that randomly tweets out "NOOOOOOOO Cassini can't be ending!" (with varying amounts of "O's"). @CassiniNooo represents…
The Fire In Orbit This Time… Again
Upon departing the ISS after a month-long stay, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 mission began conducting a controlled fire experiment... in…
Messier 27 – The Dumbbell Nebula
Located approximately 1,360 light years from Earth in the direction of the Vulpecula constellation, the Dumbbell Nebula is a beautiful…