A new, strangely morbid video profiles 3 people vying to visit Mars — and...
Why do you want to die on Mars?This is the most normal question in the series of totally bizarre topics that three Mars One volunteers are discussing in this latest video titled "If I die on Mars."Mars...
View ArticleThe world’s rockets shown to scale
Inspired by a book and poster from 1995, titled “Rockets of the World," graphic artist Tyler Skrabek has provided a new and updated “clean" look for his latest work.“The 'Rockets of the World' poster...
View ArticleThis is one of the most detailed maps of our galaxy ever created
The Milky Way galaxy is made up of more than just stars and a new series of galactic maps has captured that diversity of gas, dust, particles and magnetic fields in amazing detail.The new Milky Way...
View ArticleIncredible close-up view of dwarf planet Ceres shows many mysterious white dots
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of the mysterious dwarf planet world Ceres. These latest images, taken on Feb. 4, from a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000...
View ArticleThese high-resolution images of Chris Hadfield's view of Earth from the ISS...
When retired Canadian Space Agency astronaut, Chris Hadfield, was aboard the International Space Station for the final time, he made the most of it. From December 2012 to May 2013, Hadfield orbited...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson tried to steal Conan's staff while promoting his new...
Famed astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson tried to steal some of Conan's top talent during his appearance on "Conan" February 10 — after dropping some moon...
View ArticleSpaceX successfully launched a rocket carrying an important payload for...
After two aborted launches, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday at 6:03 pm ET. The rocket lifted off out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.SpaceX aborted its launch...
View ArticleWatch SpaceX launch their Falcon 9 rocket right at sunset
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Wednesday evening, carrying a satellite designed to monitor space weather. Produced by Matthew StuartFollow BI Video:On FacebookJoin the conversation...
View ArticleSpaceX successfully landed a rocket in the ocean
After three attempts followed by three scrubbed launches, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday at 6:03 pm ET.For some, the launch was less exciting than the company's attempt to...
View ArticleThese weird animals make scientists think that life could thrive on one of...
Shrimp have taken over one of the most inhospitable places on Earth — at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Down there, the environment is so extreme that scientists think it could resemble conditions on...
View ArticleIf you tweak Einstein's equations, it looks like the Big Bang never happened
Two physicists are trying to revive one of the great debates of twentieth-century science, arguing that the Big Bang may never have happened. Their work presents a radically different vision of the...
View ArticleThis is the space mission that will get humans to Europa - our best candidate...
On Monday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden gave an exciting updateon the state of America's space agency, detailing the Obama Administration's proposal to give NASA $18.5 billion for the 2016 fiscal...
View ArticlePizza Hut once delivered to the International Space Station
What do you do if you’re stuck in outer space and get a crazing for a pizza? Well, if you happen to be Yuri Usachov, you simply call and place an order to Pizza Hut because they apparently deliver to...
View ArticleMajestic, uncanny images show what planets would look like if they replaced...
It's a march of the planets in the most beautiful way imaginable. In a stunning video, the creative minds at the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos imagine how Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,...
View ArticleUS companies could start building on the moon
"According to documents obtained by Reuters, U.S. companies can stake claims to lunar territory through an existing licensing process for space launches."With these words, Reuters this week led off a...
View ArticleNASA has released images of the other side of the Moon that we've never seen...
A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers that...
View ArticleA black supermoon is coming this week
The moon is going to be at its closest on Wednesday, February 18, but since it's a new moon, so you won't see a thing.This is called a black supermoon, and it happens around three times a year. While...
View ArticleAstronomers have no idea what this 120-mile-tall cloud on Mars is
On March 12, 2012, amateur skywatchers noticed something unusual coming off of Mars' southern hemisphere. It was an extremely bright plume, extending 120 miles or more into the Martian sky. Clouds,...
View ArticleNASA just took some of the best images of the Arctic we've ever seen
On February 11, 2013, the Landsat 8 satellite rocketed into space to extend a four-decade legacy of Earth observations. A few months after launch, we published a composite of images that spanned 9,000...
View ArticleThe adorable story of how an 11-year-old girl got to name Pluto
An 11-year-old British girl is responsible naming the planet Pluto, the once ninth planet of our solar system, after her grandfather read about the dwarf planet’s discovery at the family breakfast...
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