This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Rosette Nebula, a pretty star-forming region more than 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. In optical light, the nebula looks like a rosebud, or the “rosette” adornments that date back to antiquity.
A flat, smooth, shiny feature dubbed the Snow Queen is near the top of this color mosaic of the surface beneath the Phoenix Mars Lander. Recorded with the lander’s robotic arm camera as it was maneuvered to look under the lander, the region also includes a leg and plate-sized footpad
Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to space and has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a future orbital space flight with Space Adventures, the space tourism company said on Wednesday.
Space Adventures, the broker of the first tourist flights to space celebrated its ten-year anniversary today here at the Explorer’s Club in New York with the announcement that it had scored a deal with the Russian Federal Space Agency, or RKA, to buy an entire flight to the International Space Station.
Envisions the first “shakedown” test flight of NASA’s new flagship Ares-1 rocket launcher scheduled at the Kennedy Space Center in April 2009, including the first-stage booster parachute splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
A commercial for tortilla chips is beamed towards another star system such ads may help fund pure science research
The short answer is, of course, not long. But your build, age and general level of cardiovascular health could make a small difference in how long you’d get to relish the unique experience.A new calculator will estimate you how long…
Breakdown products from decaying dark matter may puff up dwarf galaxies, possibly explaining why sightings don’t match predicted numbers (full text available to subscribers)
