The red planet’s looking a little blue in the face. This image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at the end of August shows the ripples of wind-blown sediment on the dunes of Noctis Labyrinthus (the “labyrinth of the night”) ...
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‘Rotating moon’ filmed by NASA (Video)
NASA video footage shows what the moon would look like as it rotates. The images are impossible to witness from Earth, because the moon is ‘tidally locked’ to it, meaning only one of its faces ever points toward the planet. ...
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Richard C. Hoagland is a former space science museum curator; a former NASA consultant, and during the historic Apollo Missions to the Moon, was science advisor to Walter Cronkite and CBS News. For over 20 years, Hoagland has been leading ...
Read More »Gigantic Galaxy Cluster Blazes in Amazing New Hubble Photo
A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows an enormous collection of galaxies and star clusters in stunning detail. Hubble spied 10,000 or so of the estimated 160,000 globular star groupings thought to reside in the huge galaxy cluster ...
Read More »Sun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest
Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend. The event, though not unprecedented, is odd considering that our local star has just passed what is supposed to be the peak of its solar cycle, when activity is at ...
Read More »Asteroid Will Buzz Earth This Week Inside the Moon’s Orbit
A tiny asteroid discovered just last week is set to zip by Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 18), passing between our planet and the moon. It is small enough and distant enough that it poses no threat to people, scientists say. ...
Read More »A message from beyond the stars: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sends first transmission after leaving Earth’s solar system
This is the incredible sound recording beamed back to Earth from Voyager 1 as it crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. The rising tones NASA observed are made by the vibration of ...
Read More »September 16th, 2013
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He’s the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified ...
Read More »Comet Fragment Streaks Over Alabama and Georgia – Looped Video
A baseball-sized meteor hit the atmosphere at ~76,000 mph producing a fireball. It disintegrated about 25 miles above the town of Woodstock. NASA All-Sky Fireball Network captured the event. (looped several times) Credit: NASA All-Sky Fireball Network
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