Watch Every Single Space Shuttle Launch At The Same Time
McLean Fahenstock beautifully pieced together this video of all 135 space shuttle launches by NASA at one time. Watch and marvel: Grand Finale 2010-11 from McLean Fahnestock on Vimeo. Please follow...
View ArticleLanding On Mars = 'Seven Minutes Of Terror'
NASA is preparing to launch its next Mars rover, Curiosity, on August 5. But safely reaching the surface of the Red Planet is no short order. The operation is filled with engineering challenges...
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Scientists See The Early Universe's First 'Dark Galaxies'
A telescope in South America has found tantalizing evidence of primitive galaxies born in the early universe, a find that, if confirmed, would mark the first-ever view of the so-called "dark...
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Moon Dust Is Seriously Harmful To Humans
You may want to think twice before claiming yourself a slice of moon property. New research suggests that particles of moon dust are so small and jagged they are likely toxic to humans, and could even...
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If You Plan On Going To Mars In 2023, You'll Still Be Able To Watch The Super...
Mars One is an ambitious plan for a one-way trip to Mars in 2023, funded by a reality TV-type media spectacle. The lucky astronauts will live on Mars for the rest of their lives. Sounds crazy? Well,...
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These Pictures Are The Closest You Will Probably Ever Get To Mars
Just a few days ago the Mars Rover Opportunity sent back this amazing shot giving us a glimpse into what the Red Planet really is like. Did you know that Mars is currently host to three functional...
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Hubble Snaps The Most Detailed Picture Of 'Needle' Galaxy Yet
NASA just released this great image of spiral galaxy NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38). It's located somewhere between 30 and 50 million light years away from our own galaxy,...
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The Sharpest Look Ever Of A Distant Galaxy
What you're looking at below is the sharpest view ever of the center of a distant galaxy, quasar 3C 279. The galaxy is classified as a quasar "because it shines ultra-bright as massive amounts of...
View ArticleEpic Video Gets Us Pumped About Space Exploration
The video was produced by the International Space University, a non-profit institute of higher eduction in France, providing graduate-level training in space studies. As space University writes on the...
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A Behind-The-Scenes Tour Of The New Space Shuttle Exhibition
One month after arriving at its new home in New York City on the Intrepid, the space shuttle Enterprise opens to the public on Thursday. We were among the very first to get an up-close look at the...
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Beautiful Photo Shows The Southern Lights Over Antarctica
The handful of wintertime residents at an isolated Antarctica research station recently got a break from austral winter's 24-hour darkness when a shimmering aurora blazed to life over their lonely...
View ArticleCheck Out This Highlight Reel Of The Historic SpaceX Dragon Flight
SpaceX, Elon Musk's private space venture, made history earlier this year with the successful launch of its Dragon space capsule. It marked the arrival of privatized space flight, and now SpaceX has...
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NASA's Awesome New Rover Will Look For Water On The Moon
NASA unveiled a new lunar space rover this week that will try to drill and search for water and other natural resources on the moon, as Wired reports. On this 43rd anniversary of the lunar landing,...
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Living On The Space Station May Seem Cool, But It's Actually Full Of Farts...
Life on the space station may seem at times to be all fun and games, taking pictures of the earth, and running experiments, but in reality lots of weird things can, and do, happen up in the space...
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A Heat Map Of The Sun
The image on the right isn't a painting. It's a visualization created by NASA scientist Nicholeen Viall to illustrate which areas on the sun cooled or heated over a 12-hour period. The image is based...
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Sally Ride, The First American Woman In Space, Has Died
Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space has died from pancreatic cancer, her website confirms. She was 61. Ride is famous for becoming the first American woman to fly in space when the...
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How Sally Ride Beat Out 8,000 Applicants To Become The First American Woman...
Sally Ride broke several barriers when she blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida aboard the shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. At age 32, Ride became the first American woman to journey into...
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Why A Space Telescope Needs A Thin Layer Of Gold
To plate each of the mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope (the successor to the Hubble), engineers at Quantum Coating Incorporated use less than three grams of gold. They use a vacuum coating...
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NASA's New Spacesuits Can Handle The Worst Imaginable Environments
NASA hasn't designed a new spacesuit in 20 years. But with the possibility of sending an astronaut to the Moon, Mars or even an asteroid hanging in the future, the space agency needed something that...
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Humans Have Left Almost 400,000 Pounds Of Junk On The Moon
Humans have left a ton of stuff on the moon. Ok, it's more like 200 tons. From experiments and commemorative plaques to the leftover carcasses of dead space probes and lunar rovers, the moon's got it...
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