Ten Earths could easily fit in the “claw” of this seemingly solar monster. The monster, though, visible on the lower left, is a huge eruptive prominence seen moving out from our Sun. The above dramatic image taken early in the year 2000 by the Sun-orbiting SOHO satellite.
NASA and Disney are teaming up to put a figurine of ‘Toy Story’ space ranger Buzz Lightyear on the Space Shuttle Discovery when it laun
Did you know that the Phoenix Lander has its own Twitter account? Of course, the Phoenix Lander itself isn’t SMS’ing across the solar system, instead NASA is using the Twitter account to provide sharp, interesting updates and newly taken photo’s of the surface of Mars.
It’s not your father’s space program anymore. That’s one of the clear messages here at the International Space Development Conference, where the future of exploration is being picked apart by top minds looking for the Next Big Thing—and the Next Big Power in Space.