NASA has had the rover “Opportunity” on the surface of Mars for a long time now. Every now and then it takes these fantastic streaming photos of the mars lanscape. Warning, do not stare into the photo, you will get sucked in and lost! This photo that the ‘Opportunity‘ took is facing eastward across the [...]

A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the [...]

California wants to register as historical resources the space junk (high-tech and otherwise) left behind by the Apollo 11 crew. When the Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from the moon, they left behind not just the small steps of men but a giant pile of equipment and junk for all of mankind. Much was cast [...]

The circular-looking object in this enlarged image of the surface of Mars is on the horizon of the landscape where NASA’s Curiosity rover sits, waiting for its first drive to explore the red planet. Is this an unidentified object or simply a very large rock?   NASA’s Curiosity rover had hardly touched down on the surface of [...]

Russian satellite Electro-L captures stunning view…. Russian weather satellite Elektro-L is in geostationary orbit, over 22000 miles above the equator. It sends photos to Earth every thirty minutes. The image above is one of them. It combines four light wavelengths, three visible and one infrared. That is why they are so vivid. And why the [...]

1976, the program robots Viking reach NASA’s Mars with the intention of photographing the surface. Further experiments are unable to conclude the existence of life on the planet.Today, 36 years later, a new analysis of data collected over three decades ago says he found life on Mars . The study was published in the International [...]

I am a huge space enthusiast so when I saw a few of my favorite sites posting the new video from NASA showing the first video from GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) showing the far side of the moon, I figured I should share it as well.  I find the video to be quite [...]

IN NASA’S MUNDANE DETAILS, WE FIND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL AND ECHOES OF ITS SCIENCE FICTION ROOTS. The problem with space exploration by humans is that we are incredibly expensive to put into orbit. We’re heavy, we demand very particular environmental conditions (warmth, air, water, food) and you have to budget for [...]

Flashing space station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until yesterday. It sounds deceptively easy. In an earlier post I wrote about the technical requirements. But like so many other tasks, it becomes much more involved in the execution than in the planning. Early Sunday morning, at 01:27 our time, [...]

In celebration of 1,000 days in orbit, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team released video, one a fiery drama showing the moon’s tough evolution and another touring its most interesting sites. The historical montage takes you from the moon’s earliest days, through the massive south pole splat that formed the South Pole-Aitken Basin, into the Late [...]