Check out a photograph capturing the suns glinting behind the earth taken at 125 000 feet over the Californian Pacific coast by Pacific Star 2 on Canon Powershot A560 camera.
While NASA spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on their high tech satellites, 27-year-old Colin Rich has photographed the earth from 125 000 [...]
Check out some dramatic night-time video of the fiery re-entry of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa over Australia Sunday after a seven-year, 1.2 billion mile journey to the asteroid Itokowa.
Captured by teams aboard a NASA airborne lab, the goal was to study how the heat shield protected a sample return canister during re-entry. The canister [...]
A giant model of the James Web Space Telescope was unveiled earlier this month during the 2010 World Science Festival in Battery Park City, Manhattan.
Billed as the successor to the famous Hubble Telescope, the James Webb is due for launch into space in 2014.
Roughly the size of a tennis court, the full-scale model [...]
NASA has released today (April 21) the first public images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. It shows stunning close-ups of explosions on the sun’s surface.
“These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research,” says Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at [...]
A roaring fireball lit up the sky across five Midwestern states last night (April 14).
It was most likely a meteor but could have been rocket debris or a chunk from an asteroid that whizzed between Earth and the moon this week. It happened just after 10 p.m. CT.
The video above is from a [...]
Many people travel to the poles of the earth in order to see the aurora at its best — not many, however, travel to space.
From his viewpoint on the ISS, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has been posting images of the earth to his Twitter account.
This amazing image shows the aurora in the background [...]
