An astronaut was able to control a rock-sampling rover, all the way from the International Space Station.
READ MORETagging along on SpaceX’s latest Falcon Heavy launch was a special little satellite, designed by the biggest space advocacy group in the world, the Planetary Society.
READ MORENASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has caught a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient (FELT) in the act.
READ MOREWhen traveling by air, you are sure to see some interesting sights out the plane’s window. From land formations thousands of feet below to all different shapes of clouds in the air – perhaps even another plane in the distance. However, what one person filmed during a trip from Phoenix to Portland is unlike anything ever seen before.
READ MOREA University of Sussex student created a new material that is strong and flexible and decomposes in less than six weeks.
READ MOREForty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.
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