Science Images of the Week
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a growing flow of high-energy X-rays from somewhere near the center of our galaxy. The outburst, pictured in this illustration, was produced by a rare X-ray...
View ArticleNASA Makes it Easier to Spot Space Station
The International Space Station (NASA) NASA is making it easier to spot the International Space Station (ISS) with the naked eye. The US space agency is offering a new service which alerts people a few...
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The Egyptian desert meets the Red Sea on a cloudless afternoon in this photo tweeted by first-time astronaut Reid Wiseman on June 8, 2014. Wiseman is one of six men living aboard the International...
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With the sun setting over New York on July 2, 2014, the One World Trade Center building in Manhattan is struck by lightning during a summer storm. (REUTERS) This photo, taken from the International...
View ArticleScience Scanner: Space Chiefs Commit to ISS Cooperation, ESA Prepares for...
International Space Station Agency Heads (NASA) Space Agency Heads Reaffirm Commitment to ISS While the media has occasionally suggested over the past few months that the current diplomatic tension...
View ArticleJune 2015 Science Images
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, carrying supplies to the International Space Station, breaks apart shortly after liftoff at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, June 28,...
View ArticleClose Call for ISS; Threat to Polar Bears; Binary System Cannibal
ISS Crewmembers Back to Work after Close Call with Space Junk Fear that a floating piece of space junk could impact the ISS sent astronauts the station’s crew scrambling onto a docked Soyuz TMA-16M...
View ArticleAlien Invasion Unlikely; Love Rooted in Evolution; Smokers Risk Losing Teeth
Aliens? (Interdimensional Guardians/Creative Commons) Dutch Scientist assures that An Alien Invasion is Unlikely Should we be fearful of an invasion by Aliens? Probably not any time soon, according to...
View ArticleChinese Space Station Expected To Fall to Earth Within Days
Aerospace experts say they expect the Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, or “Celestial Palace 1” in English, to drop out of orbit and fall to Earth sometime between March 30th and April 2nd....
View ArticleCould a Net and a Harpoon Cleanup Space Junk?
The Chinese space station Tiangong 1’s recent fall to Earth, in an unguided re-entry, has raised discussion again on how to address the nagging problem of space junk or orbital debris circling our...
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