Space & Spaceflight

AMNH’s Cosmic Discoveries App Puts a Universe of Photos On Your iPhone

Cosmic Discoveries, the latest app from the American Museum of Natural History, lets you explore nearly a thousand space-related images and blurbs, arranged neatly in a galaxy swirl-mosaic. Think of it as getting your mind blown, fun-sized. [iTunes]

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

The Asteroids Closest to Killing Us, Visualized

You can call them “near Earth objects” if you want to. I’ll stick with “asteroids hellbent on obliterating our planet and all we hold dear.” Here’s the lineup of the space rocks closest to killing us, and where they are. As a bonus, designer Zachary Vabolis has taken the liberty of listing the recorded objects…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett

Astronaut Checks Into Foursquare From Space

Douglas Wheelock, a NASA astronaut, just checked into the International Space Station. On foursquare. In outer space. The feat netted him the NASA Explorer Badge, which I’m sure is the ultimate validation for a real astronaut. Wheelock, AKA @Astro_Wheels, is the Commander of ISS Expedition 25, a team comprising astronauts and cosmonauts from the U.S.…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

This Is the Oldest Space Object Ever Found

This is the oldest object we’ve found yet in space. It’s a galaxy whose light traveled more than 13 billion light-years before it was visible to Hubble. And it’s only 600 million years younger than the universe itself. What you’re looking at above is an artist’s rendering of UDFy-38135539, the most ancient space object we’ve…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett

35 Years Ago Today We Got Our First Look at an Alien World

Thirty five years ago yesterday, we could only imagine the view from the surface of another world. But Russia’s Venera 9 probe changed all that, beaming back the first ever photo of another planet—25 million miles away. By 1975, the moon was no longer a frontier. It had been landed on, hopped across, analyzed, filmed,…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle

A Solar Eclipse Gets Its Close Up

The moon passed between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the sun for the first time last week, yielding this incredible eclipse photograph. Sorry, awesome solar flare in the bottom left corner, you’ll have to share the spotlight this time. https://gizmodo.com/the-deadliest-place-in-the-solar-system-is-beautiful-5521608 And here, courtesy of NASA Goddard Photo and Video, is a video clip of the…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Directly Observing Exoplanets Just Got Easier

So that Gliese Goldilocks Zone planet may not exist. Sad. Cheer up though, because Arizona University astronomers have discovered a new technique that could make spotting exoplanets a bit easier. Which is great, because right now it’s really frickin’ hard. The biggest hurdle is light. When we look at distant stars and try to see…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Most Massive Galaxy Cluster Ever Discovered Seven Billion Light-Years Away

A monstrously huge cluster of galaxies lurks 7 billion light-years away. The cluster weighs in around 800 trillion suns and holds hundreds of galaxies, making it the most massive galaxy cluster ever found at such a great distance. Despite its tremendous bulk, the cluster was hidden until astronomers looked for the distortions it created in…

Space & Spaceflight Lisa Grossman - Wired

Forget Tsunamis: Asteroids Will Really Kill Us With UV Rays

If a medium-sized asteroid lands in the ocean, tsunamis won’t be the only worry. Water vapor and sea salt thrown up by the impact could damage the ozone layer, leading to record levels of ultraviolet radiation that could threaten humanity. “This suggests new issues you could have with ocean impacts that people hadn’t thought of…

Space & Spaceflight Rachel Courtland-New Scientist

You Can Scratch And Sniff The Moon

This is a scratch and sniff print that resembles the smell of the moon. So what does it smell like? According to Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, like gunpowder. In 1972 Duke said, about the moon’s smell: It is really a strong smell. It has that taste—to me, gunpowder—and the smell of gunpowder, too. The…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

This 2-Year-Old Kid Knows More About Space Than You Do

This adorable little astronomer knows the solar system. He loves magnetic fields and can recognize Neil deGrasse Tyson. He knows that Pluto is a dwarf planet. He knows the names of Pluto’s moons. It’s like a supernova of cute. The video is the runner up in the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center Anniversary…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Extreme Space Zooming From New York to LA

These extreme zoom-in movies were digitally created by NASA using photographic material from different satellites. From coast to coast, there is no escape from the eyes in space. The video on the top shows an extreme zoom out from NYC’s Central Park, in High Definition, just newly created by scientists at NASA Goddard (make sure…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Rockoon Soars 40km in the Sky, But Has Further to Go if it Wants to Reach the Moon

No, I’m not trying to say “raccoon” through a candy-filled mouth. That’s really what Romania is calling their rocket-balloon, which is an entry in Google’s Lunar X competition, to be the first vessel to send a robot to the moon. If successful, the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association team (ARCA) wins $30 million, but the…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

OMG, It’s a Full On Complete Rainbow All the Way Across the Moon!

It may not be a Double Rainbow, but it’s a Lunar Rainbow! How could this be possible? it doesn’t rain there. The Moon doesn’t even have an atmosphere…so how could the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s camera capture this phenomenal phenomenon? The LROC’s Wide Angle uses filters to capture images, capturing three different wavelengths: a 689nm filter…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

This Is Russia’s Next Space Station for Tourists

Looks like the space tourism industry is heating up. RSC Energia—the designer and manufacturer of the Russian ISS modules—is creating a new space station for tourists, scientists, and evil genius wannabes. Construction could start as soon as 2012. No price for the tickets yet, but the station will be prepared to accept spacecraft from any…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Metal From “Outer Space” Falls Down on Chinese Villages

What would you think if you saw this fall from the sky? Would you think it was from a passing airplane, or scream that the sky was falling like Chicken Little? Would you think that it was from a spaceship? I’m not sure that’d be my first thought, admittedly, but villagers in the Suichuan County…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

China Shoots for the Moon

On Friday, sometime around 1100 GMT, China sent a probe to the moon. The rocket, bearing the Chang’e-2 probe, launched from the Xichang launch center around that time and proceeded to take the probe toward a trans-lunar orbit. The trip from earth to moon will take approximately five days, after which time the probe will…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

NASA IBEX Probe Confirms Freaky Stuff Happening at the Edge of Our Solar System

Fact: Space is a freak show. But that link goes to a post about deep space, beyond our solar system. Thanks to the IBEX probe, however, we’re quickly learning that our own backyard is rife with the freaky-deaky too. We first reported on the ambitious IBEX probe back in October, 2008, when NASA was preparing…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

New 1.4 Gigapixel Asteroid Hunter Finds Object Headed For Earth

The Pan-STARRS, a new 1.4 gigapixel telescope built to spot asteroids, has found a potentially dangerous asteroid headed for Earth. Luckily, we don’t have to worry just yet. It won’t hit us ’til 2098. In October, the asteroid 2010 ST will come within four million miles of us but that’s just the teaser. The real…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim

A group of retired Air Force officers say they’ve encountered UFOs, and surmise that the space creatures are trying to tell an obstinate human race to abandon its nuclear weapons. That’s right: Earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies. Seven elderly retired Air Force officers called a news conference at the National Press Club in…

Space & Spaceflight Spencer Ackerman - Wired

AMNH’s Cosmic Discoveries App Puts a Universe of Photos On Your iPhone

The Asteroids Closest to Killing Us, Visualized

Astronaut Checks Into Foursquare From Space

This Is the Oldest Space Object Ever Found

35 Years Ago Today We Got Our First Look at an Alien World

A Solar Eclipse Gets Its Close Up

Directly Observing Exoplanets Just Got Easier

Most Massive Galaxy Cluster Ever Discovered Seven Billion Light-Years Away

Forget Tsunamis: Asteroids Will Really Kill Us With UV Rays

You Can Scratch And Sniff The Moon

This 2-Year-Old Kid Knows More About Space Than You Do

Extreme Space Zooming From New York to LA

Rockoon Soars 40km in the Sky, But Has Further to Go if it Wants to Reach the Moon

OMG, It’s a Full On Complete Rainbow All the Way Across the Moon!

This Is Russia’s Next Space Station for Tourists

Metal From “Outer Space” Falls Down on Chinese Villages

China Shoots for the Moon

NASA IBEX Probe Confirms Freaky Stuff Happening at the Edge of Our Solar System

New 1.4 Gigapixel Asteroid Hunter Finds Object Headed For Earth

UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim

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