Space & Spaceflight

After Watching This Video, You Will Like to Be an Astronaut Too

I’ve never seen anything like this: The Earth captured in time lapse by an astronaut at the International Space Station, cruising at 17,239 miles per hour—that’s 7.7 kilometers per second, or 4.7 miles per second. The time lapse video was taken by NASA astronaut and Oregon State University alum Don Pettit, while he was at…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Our Sun Might Look Like This…In 6 Billion Years

Is this a Droid wallpaper? A Pokeball? Nope, it’s actually hot water surrounding a giant carbon star. It’s a phenomenon that’s puzzling scientists and it’s happening to a star similar to our Sun. In 6 billion years, our Sun will be nearing the end of its life and expanding outward. Much like this star, it’ll…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

These Students Purposely Crashed A NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

With NASA’s blessing, a group of Colorado University students were able to participate in what sounds like the coolest college test ever: crashing a real NASA satellite into the ocean. The satellite, known as the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation satellite (or ICESat), orbited the Earth for seven years gathering data on ice sheets and…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

NASA History Captured In Strange and Beautiful Photograph Collection

That? That’s the Gossamer Penguin, an experimental solar-powered aircraft cruising above a dry lakebed at NASA Dryden’s Flight Research Center in July 1979. It’s just one of the many strange, spectacular images of NASA’s early days now available online. The images come from NASA Commons, a joint effort by NASA, Flickr, and Internet Archive to…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

NASA’s Biggest-Ever Solid Rocket Shakes Utah

NASA’s DM-2 rocket motor successfully fired for two minutes this week, pumping out a massive cloud of smoke while technicians carried out their tests. The first test is… are their earplugs in tight enough to block out the incredible noise? Prior to the firing at the ATK Aerospace Systems facility in Promontory, Utah, the engine…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Every Asteroid Discovered In the Last 30 Years

Asteroids! No not the video game—I’m talking about all those old rocks floating around up in space. Here’s a mesmerizing video that tracks every single one of them that’s visited our solar system since 1980. Space: busy place! The video’s description notes: As the video moves into the mid 1990’s we see much higher discovery…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Found: 1970s Soviet Moon Rover, Lunokhod 1

This contraption looks like it’d fall apart trundling over a particularly rough bit of carpeting, but it’s actually much more durable than it seems. It’s Lunokhod 1 and the Soviets drove it around the moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was abandoned after it ran out of power up there, and the Russian space bosses didn’t…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Human Cannonball Astronaut: My Rocket Is My Clothes

Within weeks, Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson will launch the first standing-room-only spacecraft. Their rocket is a cylindrical capsule that snugly fits around a standing person, with a clear plexiglass dome so that the astronaut can see out. For this first test flight, Madsen and von Bengtson – founders of the non-profit organisation Copenhagen…

Space & Spaceflight New Scientist

Goatee-Bearded Evil “You” Could Be Detected By Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a new attachment that’ll soon be bolted onto the International Space Station. It’s mission—to detect dark matter and possibly uncover the “anti universe” as made famous by decades of bad sci-fi. The main mission of the AMS, which has been in development for some 20 years, is to track down…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Internet Forum Users Plan Manned Space Launch

The amateur rocketry scene is about to take one giant leap forward, thanks to a collection of volunteers who are planning to put a man into orbit. Via a home-made submarine-mounted floating launchpad. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-amateur-rocket-is-almost-as-tall-as-5483239 The collection of Danish volunteers call themselves Copenhagen Suborbitals, and have been posting about their efforts on the Something Awful forums…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Self-Dusting Solar Panels Keep Themselves Efficient

Dirt and dust can reduce a solar panel’s efficiency as much as 80%. The solution: solar panels that dust themselves, a trick they’re picking up from their Mars-roving brethren. At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers introduced solar technology that knows when dirt is keeping it down—the panels first use sensors to…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

Amateur Astronomer Witnesses Jupiter Getting Smacked Around By Another Meteor

Jupiter, our colorfully spotted gas giant neighbor was hit, again, by a meteor on Friday. The brief flash, which astronomers now think may happen a bit more frequently than previously thought, was captured on film by amateur astronomer Masayuki Tashikawa: Follow-up observations by Hubble, et al, have determined this is most likely a legit impact,…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

Send Your Own Song to Awake Astronauts of the Last Shuttle Mission

NASA has been waking up astronauts with music since the beginning of the manned space program. Now, they not only want you to pick the music, but also submit your own for STS-134, the last space shuttle mission. You have to ways to participate in this. The first is to listen to the top 40…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Why Is the Moon Shrinking?

The Moon is shriveling like baboon’s testicles in an ice tea glass, NASA scientists said after analyzing new images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Not with those exact words, mind you, but similar enough: It’s shrinking because it’s cooling down. The Moon was hot at the beginning of its life. The most accepted theory—proved by…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

What Is This?

A lost scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? No, although it will go to space at one point. It’s a 66 x 66 feet solar sail being tested by NASA at the largest vacuum chamber in the world, at the Glenn Research Center at Plum Brook Station, In Sandusky, Ohio. Solar sails will…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo’s new weekly column on words—the ones you’ve heard, but can’t quite define, or the ones you haven’t, but might like to hear about. This week’s lesson: Thermocouples! (Huh?) You almost certainly own a thermocouple. You probably have at least a few, and may well command a small army of them,…

Space & Spaceflight John Herrman

I Want These Guys to Take Us to Mars

Romain Charles, Sukhrob Kamolov, Yue Wang, Diego Urbina, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, and Alexey Sitev. Remember these names, because nobody is going to do it when other people go to Mars instead of them. Still, they are crucial to humanity’s next odyssey. They are the crew of the Mars 500, the Big Brotheresque project that is testing…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art

We talked to the Spitzer Space Telescope‘s visualization team about the challenges and rewards of rendering the mission’s reams of non-visual data into something that catches the public eye. In a shared office on the southern edge of Caltech’s campus, Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are making art out of science. Armed with the industry…

Space & Spaceflight Clay Dillow - PopSci

An Enchanting Time-Lapse Look at the Greatest Show in Space

If you missed the Perseids meteor shower—and I truly hope you didn’t—this beautiful time-lapse video of the view from Joshua Tree National Park should get you caught up. And fill you with more than a little wonder. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-watch-the-greatest-space-show-today-5611579 This was shot over three days with a 5D Mk II at 6400 ISO, with 20 second…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett

DARPA Building a Gigantic Space Net to Clean Up Space Junk in Space

Earth’s orbit is cluttered with dead satellites and other assorted space junk, making it increasingly dangerous for the ISS and new satellites. DARPA’s solution? Catch ’em all in a big ol’ net. The Electrodynamic Debris Eliminator, or EDDE, would be a spacecraft with 200 nets attached to it, allowing it to gather up any errant…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

After Watching This Video, You Will Like to Be an Astronaut Too

Our Sun Might Look Like This…In 6 Billion Years

These Students Purposely Crashed A NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

NASA History Captured In Strange and Beautiful Photograph Collection

NASA’s Biggest-Ever Solid Rocket Shakes Utah

Every Asteroid Discovered In the Last 30 Years

Found: 1970s Soviet Moon Rover, Lunokhod 1

Human Cannonball Astronaut: My Rocket Is My Clothes

Goatee-Bearded Evil “You” Could Be Detected By Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Internet Forum Users Plan Manned Space Launch

Self-Dusting Solar Panels Keep Themselves Efficient

Amateur Astronomer Witnesses Jupiter Getting Smacked Around By Another Meteor

Send Your Own Song to Awake Astronauts of the Last Shuttle Mission

Why Is the Moon Shrinking?

What Is This?

Vocab Lesson: Thermocouples

I Want These Guys to Take Us to Mars

Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art

An Enchanting Time-Lapse Look at the Greatest Show in Space

DARPA Building a Gigantic Space Net to Clean Up Space Junk in Space

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