Space & Spaceflight

How Space-Aged Whiskey Tastes: Smoked Fruit, Antiseptic, Rubbery Smoke

Back in 2011, Ardbeg Distillery, of Islay in Scotland, sent a sample of unmatured malt whiskey into space aboard the International Space Station. Now, the samples have been tested — and here’s how it tastes. Samples of the distillery’s whiskey were aged aboard the space station: sealed in something called MixStix, astronauts were able to…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

A Beautiful Composite Image of the ISS Crossing the Sun

What happens when the International Space Station flies past the Sun? Nothing as bad as the fate that befell Icarus, fortunately — just a nice image, instead. In this picture, you can see how the silhouette of the ISS as it passed across the face of Sun on Sunday September 6th. Moving at about 5…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

How to Spot a Black Hole

You don’t need to be a professional astronomer to find black holes. Here’s how you can spot one, using just your laptop or phone. Radio Galaxy Zoo is an online platform that allows cosmically-inclined individuals to make valuable contributions to astronomy, by identifying radio jets from supermassive black holes (SBHs) and matching these features to…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Sagan-Inspired Movie “Star Stuff” Makes The Universe Feel a Lot Bigger

A young Carl Sagan comes to vivid life in “Star Stuff,” a short film by Croatian film director Ratimir Rakuljic. It offers a moving re-enactment of how a young boy from Brooklyn with an insatiable appetite for wonder and science grew up to become a beloved iconic figure in science communication and outreach. The film…

Space & Spaceflight Jennifer Ouellette

Even Spaceflight Will Be Impacted By Sea Level Rise

Sea level rise isn’t just a problem for coastal cities, it’s a problem for NASA. Two thirds of the space agency’s infrastructure, including the Kennedy Space Center, the Ames Research Center, and the Johnson Space Center stand between 5 and 40 feet (2 to 12 meters) above mean sea level. By the end of the…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

This Magellanic Cloud Is a Tiny Galaxy Sat Close to Our Milky Way

It may look like a contorted Van Gogh painting that’s been run through Google’s dreaming neural networks, but you’re actually looking at an image of one of the Magellanic Clouds—which is among the nearest companions of our Milky Way galaxy. The Magellanic clouds—first discovered by European astronomers in the 16th Century—are known as Dwarf Galaxies.…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

This Glass Will Let You Enjoy Whiskey in Microgravity

Now that whiskey is being aged in space, it seems only fitting that there should be a way to enjoy the results in low gravity. Fortunately, this glass provides a way to sip the stuff en route to the stars. Developed by Open Space Agency’s James Parr for distillery Ballantine, the glass is designed to…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

A Meteor Exploded Over Bangkok on Monday Morning

Citizens of the Thai capital Bangkok witnessed a huge fireball descending on the horizon this morning, and thanks to the dashcams in their cars, we can admire the celestial visitor from several different angles. The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere around 8.45am local time, and burnt up in a huge fireball after striking down from the…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

This is the Oldest Galaxy We’ve Found So Far

Astrophysicists at Caltech say they’ve detected the oldest, most distant galaxy known so far. It’s 13.2 billion years old — just over half a billion years younger than the universe itself — and the discovery may change what astrophysicists know about the early history of the universe. Adi Zitrin and Richard Ellis first spotted EGS8p7…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Astronomers Want to Watch Comets Slam Into Distant Planets

If a massive comet struck the Earth, the oceans would boiland the air would catch fire (don’t worry,this isn’t about to happen). But to alien astronomers studying our planet from afar, humanity’s brutal demise would look like nothing more than a faint flicker of light. If we could detect such impacts on distant worlds, we…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

I Wanna Fly Through This Gate to The Stars

Today’s APOD feature has just left me speechless. What is this astronomical beauty, this celestial rose, this heavenly gate I am staring at in this photo, taken after sunset on September 1, above the cold Chilean highlands? Those reddish petals are not clouds, but luminous glowing air, caused by chemiluminescence, as experts over at APOD…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

This Is Just Too Much: Lightning Illuminates the ISS With the Milky Way As a Backdrop

What could be more majestic than seeing a flash of lightning on Earth reflecting on the solar panels of the International Space Station, soaring at 17,150 miles per hour 250 miles above us? How about all of that, with the expanse of the Milky Way twinkling in the background. I can’t imagine a view better…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

This Morning’s AtlasV Launch Was Nothing Short of Stellar

Special atmospheric conditions created amazing views for today’s United Launch Alliance launch as an Atlas V rocket carrying MUOS-4, the fourth Mobile User Objective System satellite for the U.S. Navy was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral at 6:18 a.m. EDT, just before sunrise. What you can see above is the atmospheric smoke trail the rocket…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

You Can Now Buy the Standards Manual Behind NASA’s Lost Logo

You know it when you see it: The smooth, soaring typeface with two uncrossed A’s. NASA’s so-called “worm” logo is a beloved symbol of space exploration even decades after it was retired. Now, thanks to two designers in New York City, you can relive the glory days of design and America’s space agency on your…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes

Soyuz Xing

I bet you cannot encounter more spectacular traffic block during your dull early morning commute than this. Russian Space Agency’s Soyuz-FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft was delivered from the operations and checkout building to launch pad 1 at Baikonur Cosmodrom this morning. Launch of the 45/46 Expedition crew–Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

A Really Small Telescope Captured This Gorgeous Galaxy Image

Astronomers say this view of the Andromeda Galaxy is probably similar to what the Milky Way Galaxy would look like from outside. Like the Milky Way, Andromeda is a spiral galaxy, and it’s our nearest galactic neighbor in the cleverly-named Local Group. Of course, “near” in astronomical terms means about 2.5 million light years. But…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Part of A Rocket Engine Landed in This Guy’s Living Room

Part of a rocket engine crashes through the roof of a house in northeast China’s Shanxi province early Friday morning. It appears to be a nozzle from the first stage engine of a Long March 4C rocket, which China’s new Yaogan-27 satellite into space from Taiyuan Launch Base in Shanxi Province on Thursday night. According…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

NASA Just Sealed Six People In a Dome For a Year to Practice Mars

Life on Mars may sound glamorous, but in reality it’s going to mean a lot of time crammed in a small bubble with a few other humans. This could end very badly. So to practice, NASA has taken to sticking people in domes and keeping them isolated for months on end. The latest isolation experiment…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Head of NASA: Congress, Stop Paying Russia to Send Americans to Space

In an open letter to Congress today, ex-astronaut and current NASA head honcho Charles F. Bolden Jr. shared some choice words: Quit wasting money, and start sending US astronauts to space aboard US spacecraft. The letter, published at Wired, doesn’t waste a moment getting to the point. “Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides with Russia.…

Space & Spaceflight Bryan Lufkin

Buzz Aldrin Has a Plan to Get Humans to Mars

Everybody’s talking about heading to Mars these days. But Buzz Aldrin, legendary figure from a space long past, might actually get to the job done. That’s right: Aldrin, the Apollo astronaut best known for his 1969 moonwalk, wants to send humans to Mars too. He’s got a plan for doing so, and now, a university…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

How Space-Aged Whiskey Tastes: Smoked Fruit, Antiseptic, Rubbery Smoke

A Beautiful Composite Image of the ISS Crossing the Sun

How to Spot a Black Hole

Sagan-Inspired Movie “Star Stuff” Makes The Universe Feel a Lot Bigger

Even Spaceflight Will Be Impacted By Sea Level Rise

This Magellanic Cloud Is a Tiny Galaxy Sat Close to Our Milky Way

This Glass Will Let You Enjoy Whiskey in Microgravity

A Meteor Exploded Over Bangkok on Monday Morning

This is the Oldest Galaxy We’ve Found So Far

Astronomers Want to Watch Comets Slam Into Distant Planets

I Wanna Fly Through This Gate to The Stars

This Is Just Too Much: Lightning Illuminates the ISS With the Milky Way As a Backdrop

This Morning’s AtlasV Launch Was Nothing Short of Stellar

You Can Now Buy the Standards Manual Behind NASA’s Lost Logo

Soyuz Xing

A Really Small Telescope Captured This Gorgeous Galaxy Image

Part of A Rocket Engine Landed in This Guy’s Living Room

NASA Just Sealed Six People In a Dome For a Year to Practice Mars

Head of NASA: Congress, Stop Paying Russia to Send Americans to Space

Buzz Aldrin Has a Plan to Get Humans to Mars

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