Fire away, Curiosity. NASA’s intrepid Curiosity rover on Mars now has the ability to choose an interesting rock target and fire its scientific laser at it autonomously. Yep, that’s right. A car-sized rover can select a rock it wants to … Read More
A cosmic lens is giving scientists a glimpse at distant galaxies never observed before. A new photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a beautiful galaxy cluster with so much mass that it actually magnifies the light of the … Read More
NASA probably has one really dizzy spacecraft on its hands. The space agency’s Solar Dynamic’s Observatory (SDO) performed a planned roll maneuver on July 6 that turned it 360 degrees and produced a disorienting GIF of the sun flipping around … Read More
Having just passed the June solstice, the Australian night sky is at its most beautiful. With the evenings lasting longer and the crisp winter winds blowing away the clouds, the sky has become a playground and Australia’s avid photographers aren’t … Read More
“Welcome to Jupiter.” When NASA’s Juno probe reached the planet Jupiter in tact Monday, it was the culmination of a risky five year journey. The probe, which is the first to orbit Jupiter since the Galileo mission ended in 2003, … Read More
Google is mining photos from a satellite launched in 2013 to create a better, cloud-free image of Earth from above. The newest mosaic is an updated version of one produced in 2013. The new version was pieced together mostly using … Read More
On Sunday, the Jeff Bezos-backed spaceflight company Blue Origin will air a test launch of their space system live for the first time online. This will mark the fourth time this particular New Shepard rocket and capsule have flown a … Read More
A couple new selfies beamed back to Earth from NASA’s Curiosity rover show the intrepid Mars explorer looking like a social media star on the red planet. The new selfies were taken on May 11 as Curiosity posed at a … Read More
A photo taken by a Japanese spacecraft in orbit around Venus shows details of the mysterious world by night. Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki spacecraft snapped this image, which shows the clouds of Venus, in infrared light earlier this year as … Read More
Over the weekend, we told you about NASA’s new expandable International Space Station habitat, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), a 13-foot-long by 10.5-foot-wide room now attached to the outside of the Space Station. On Sunday, NASA shared the above time-lapse … Read More