Space & Spaceflight

The MAVEN Spacecraft Has Spotted a Strange Aurora on Mars

While you were looking for an aurora on Earth last night, NASA scientists were preparing to unveil something far more unusual: an aurora on Mars, unlike any seen on the red planet before. MAVEN, or the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, has been circling Mars since last September. Last December, it witnessed an unusual…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang

Satellites Looked So Futuristic in 1958

You’d be forgiven for thinking that this was a piece of modern sculpture. But in fact you’re looking one of NASA’s old Vanguard satellites, photographed at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. The first ever solar-powered satellite, Vanguard 1 launched on March 17th 1958. Its purposes was exploratory: to test the launch vehicle that took it…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Watch For the Aurora Tonight, Even If You’re In the South

If you’re like me, you’ve spent years heeding forecasters telling you that the northern lights will DEFINITELY be visible tonight—and then seeing nothing but boring old night sky. Tonight, summon your faith and give it one last shot: There’s a severe geomagnetic storm going on. Lead image: Marko Kääriäinen/CC According to the NOAA’s Space Weather…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

There’s a Slice of 70s Pop Music in This Photo From the ISS

If you look closely at this photo of U.S. Astronaut Terry Virts, you can discover a neat little phenomenon that looks like a slice of 70s pop in space. We see the flight engineer of Expedition 42 on the International Space Station in the multi-windowed Cupola on December 2nd 2014, with the sun rising over…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Look How Tiny Saturn’s Moon Prometheus Is

This may just be another glorious picture of Saturn’s rings—but it also serves to show just how large the planet is. Can you make out its moon Prometheus in the image? Down in the lower left-hand corner, there’s a bright white spot. It’s not a broken pixel on your screen, but Saturn’s moon, Prometheus. Discovered…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Buzz Aldrin Has An Important Message For Humanity

Buzz Aldrin has always had some pretty strong opinions on Mars exploration — but this photo, which the astronaut took at Stonehenge yesterday, doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. Maybe NASA (and those who control its budget) will take the hint. [Twitter via Reddit]

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

A Slimmed Down Windows 10 Could Make Cheap Tablets Suck Way Less

Windows 10 already seems waaay better than Windows 8. Cortana integration, Spartan browser, a Start Menu—yes please. But how about some more storage space on your tiny solid state drive? Yeah, that sounds nice, too. Bloated software has been an issue for Windows 8 and RT devices—particularly cheap tablets and laptops that come with as…

Space & Spaceflight Darren Orf

Mars One Is Broke, Disorganized, and Sketchy as Hell

Remember Mars One? The mega-hyped, one way ticket to go start a colony on Mars assuming it could get a ship and funding and capable colonists and training facilities and the major technological advances necessary to make it all happen? Surprise! According to one finalist, the whole thing is pretty much a scam. In an…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg

This Photo of a Russian Cosmonaut Looks Like a Renaissance Painting

This photo of Cosmonaut Elena Serova taken by NASA’s Bill Ingalls on March 12th 2015 is a wonderful example of the so called Accidental Renaissance. What is Accidental Renaissance? When a press photograph’s remarkably well composed by using the Golden Ratio, and the figures, the poses and the lights are so beautiful, that the whole…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Watch ISS Astronauts Geek Out About Star Trek

The crew aboard the ISS conducted a long interview with radio station WTOP recently, covering everything from daily life aboard the ISS, to their Star Trek childhoods. Although there’s a whole host of interesting stuff in the interview — details about how ISS experiments don’t always go to plan, for example — the highlight is…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Here’s What The Night Sky Would Look Like With Much Better Eyes

Not too long ago, most people on Earth could look up at night and see the Milky Way’s stunning ribbon of stars. But if you live in a modern city or suburb awash in light pollution, that dazzling view of the night sky is about as rare as a wild predator sighting. The Orion Nebula…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Japanese Scientists Just Beamed Energy Through the Air

Human-made satellites have long been able to harness the sun’s energy as it washes over them outside the protection of our atmosphere. But what if we could beam all that solar power down to Earth? The science fictional idea may be a reality sooner than you think. That’s because Japanese scientists have just made a…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

This Neat Map of ISS Shows Where AstroSamantha Takes Her Space Photos

Geotagging on the International Space Station? Almost! This interactive map collects and pins all of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti‘s gorgeous orbital photos. Created by Thinglink user Massimo, it sorts AstroSamantha’s Twitpics into each of the segments and modules of the ISS to show you where each of them was taken. Just hover your mouse over…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere

At 10:44 PM ET last night, NASA successfully launched the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket into space. It carries with it four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft that will spend two years studying the magnetic fields between the Earth and the Sun. The four spacecraft will construct the first-ever 3D view of the magnetosphere. In particular,…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

NASA Is Going to Try Out Smart Glasses for Astronauts

NASA has announced that it plans to investigate the use of smart glasses in space, for virtual reality and augmented reality applications during human spaceflight—to help with flight operations, repairs or other technical tasks. In a collaboration with the Osterhout Design Group, which makes the smart glasses pictured above, NASA will investigate how the glasses…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

NASA’s New Rocket Booster Is A Firebreathing God of Thunder

NASA successfully live-fired thenew booster for its Space Launcher Systemtoday. It’s the largest, most powerful booster ever built, putting one hell of a scorch mark into the desert. And yes, there’s a video. Today’s test, which went off without a hitch, is the first of two tests necessary to qualify the booster for flight. The…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Iconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground

Photographer Edgar Martins’ book, The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, is a must-have for space enthusiasts. But for those without the hard copy, the European Space Agency has released a series of amazing images from it, some of them has not published online previously. Take a look at them…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

We Have New Neighbours: Dwarf Galaxies Found Orbiting The Milky Way

Thanks to decades of work from scientists around the world (and the Hubble telescope’s pretty pictures, of course), it feels like there’s little left unknown in the universe. Which is probably why the casual discovery of, I don’t know, nine new nearby galaxies came as something of a shock. Using the results of the Dark…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

This Is the Rocket Booster That May Put Humans on Mars

This is the most powerful booster ever built by man, and it will be the driving force behind NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the vehicle that will one day put humans on Mars. This engineering marvel will have its first major ground test tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11am EDT. According to NASA, this test fire tomorrow…

Space & Spaceflight Darren Orf

This Is How Venus Would Look Without Its Thick Layer of Clouds

We’ve never seen our closest planetary neighbour like this. The image above is a projection of the radar data of the surface of Venus, created by the astronomers of National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory. You may ask why is this image so special? NRAO explains: From earthbound optical telescopes, the surface…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

The MAVEN Spacecraft Has Spotted a Strange Aurora on Mars

Satellites Looked So Futuristic in 1958

Watch For the Aurora Tonight, Even If You’re In the South

There’s a Slice of 70s Pop Music in This Photo From the ISS

Look How Tiny Saturn’s Moon Prometheus Is

Buzz Aldrin Has An Important Message For Humanity

A Slimmed Down Windows 10 Could Make Cheap Tablets Suck Way Less

Mars One Is Broke, Disorganized, and Sketchy as Hell

This Photo of a Russian Cosmonaut Looks Like a Renaissance Painting

Watch ISS Astronauts Geek Out About Star Trek

Here’s What The Night Sky Would Look Like With Much Better Eyes

Japanese Scientists Just Beamed Energy Through the Air

This Neat Map of ISS Shows Where AstroSamantha Takes Her Space Photos

NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere

NASA Is Going to Try Out Smart Glasses for Astronauts

NASA’s New Rocket Booster Is A Firebreathing God of Thunder

Iconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground

We Have New Neighbours: Dwarf Galaxies Found Orbiting The Milky Way

This Is the Rocket Booster That May Put Humans on Mars

This Is How Venus Would Look Without Its Thick Layer of Clouds

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, Cut Your Daily Coffee Costs at Home

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Space & Spaceflight

The MAVEN Spacecraft Has Spotted a Strange Aurora on Mars

​Satellites Looked So Futuristic in 1958

Watch For the Aurora Tonight, Even If You’re In the South

There’s a Slice of 70s Pop Music in This Photo From the ISS

Look How Tiny Saturn’s Moon Prometheus Is

Buzz Aldrin Has An Important Message For Humanity

A Slimmed Down Windows 10 Could Make Cheap Tablets Suck Way Less

Mars One Is Broke, Disorganized, and Sketchy as Hell

This Photo of a Russian Cosmonaut Looks Like a Renaissance Painting

Watch ISS Astronauts Geek Out About Star Trek

Here’s What The Night Sky Would Look Like With Much Better Eyes

Japanese Scientists Just Beamed Energy Through the Air

This Neat Map of ISS Shows Where AstroSamantha Takes Her Space Photos

NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere

NASA Is Going to Try Out Smart Glasses for Astronauts

NASA’s New Rocket Booster Is A Firebreathing God of Thunder

Iconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground

We Have New Neighbours: Dwarf Galaxies Found Orbiting The Milky Way

This Is the Rocket Booster That May Put Humans on Mars

This Is How Venus Would Look Without Its Thick Layer of Clouds

‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

Breville Barista Express Espresso Machine Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, Cut Your Daily Coffee Costs at Home

Amazon Clears Out Govee LED Smart Light Bulbs (2-Pack) at a Record Low, Each Bulb Costs Just a Few Dollars

The First Proper ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Trailer Is a ’90s Anime Fever Dream

JBL PartyBox Club 120 Speaker Drops Back to Black Friday Pricing for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Only

YouTuber Resolves Fraternal Disagreement With Excavator and Hilariously Large Sword

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Satellites Looked So Futuristic in 1958