5 Incredible Space Places Showcased In Double By NASA’s Hubble
Showcased in both visible (L) and infrared (R) light, the Pillars of Creation, made famous by... [+] Hubble, offer dramatically different views of the same object. Viewing the same things in different wavelengths enable us to learn details we'd never be able to learn looking in a single wavelength band on its own. NASA, ESA…
NASA’s incredible new moon map will serve as blueprint for human...
The most comprehensive geologic map of the moon ever. NASA/GSFC/USGS NASA is preparing for new missions to the moon, setting an ambitious goal for putting walkin', talkin' humans (including the first woman) back on the lunar surface by 2024. There's plenty of gigantic hurdles to overcome before that future is realized, but this stunning, detailed…
Incredible images show huge dust storm blanketing Australian towns
The dust storm approaches Dubbo, a small town in eastern Australia, on Jan. 19. Andrew Hildebrandt/Twitter Australia's unprecedented bushfire season has captured global attention, devastating entire country towns and putting the lives of millions of animals at risk.The extreme fires were, in part, driven by extended periods of drought and while many of the blazes…
NASA launches extraordinary Apollo panoramas with unbelievable views of the moon
How's the serenity? So much serenity. NASA This story is part of To the Moon, a series exploring humanity's first journey to the lunar surface and our future living and working on the moon. The 50th anniversary of humanity's first steps on the moon is a worthy cause for celebration and one thing that's become apparent this…
11 extraordinary images from the other day’s overall solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse on Tuesday brought together crowds across South America, as people gathered to bask in the moon's shadow. The eclipse was the first since the one visible in the US in August 2017. This time, the path of totality — where the moon totally blocked the sun — started in the South…
12 amazing truths about jellyfish
As beach season gets underway, reports are already emerging of jellyfish sightings and stings. Lion's Mane jellyfish were spotted in Dublin, Ireland; several beaches in Mexico's Sinaloa state were closed after hundreds of reported stings; and several Portuguese man-of-wars (a jellyfish relative with a painful sting) have washed ashore in South Carolina. Although these invertebrates…
Amazing pictures catch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket piercing the fog throughout...
Despite a layer of heavy fog blanketing the launchpad, SpaceX successfully launched a used Falcon 9 rocket, which deployed three satellites before sticking a landing on the California coast. The trio of satellites were part of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission developed by the Canadian Space Agency to observe Canada's land and oceans, as well as…
The first-ever photo of a great void is fuzzy. These extraordinary...
The first image of a black hole. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Nearly 235 years after black holes were first theorized to exist, scientists have taken the first-ever clear picture of one. The image shows a supermassive black hole at the center of the "supergiant" galaxy Messier 87, or M87. The black hole weighs about as…
Elephant trunks resemble the human tongue, arm, and nose integrated into...
What if you could use your nose to snorkel, or uproot a small tree, or smell water from several miles away? Well, elephants wouldn't be that impressed. They do it on the daily, thanks to what's inside their trunk. If you were to dissect an elephant trunk, it would actually look more like the inside…
How NASA’s InSight probe will make it through ‘7 minutes of...
On Cyber Monday, while online shoppers hunt for deals, NASA will be trying to stick its first landing of a robot on the surface of Mars in six years. The roughly $830-million mission is called InSight, which is short for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport." NASA rocketed the InSight probe toward…
