A rare image of NASA’s shuttle endeavour orbiting around our beautiful planet earth.Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of the three currently operational spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States.The other two are Discovery and Atlantis. Endeavour was the fifth and final NASA space shuttle to be built.
I’ve whipped up meals in fancy copper saucepans, in battered woks, and in my grandfather’s old iron skillet, but never before have I used a syringe to make dinner.
An PhD student with the University of Queensland’s School of Engineering has won top prize in an international competition for her plan to wrap a giant asteroid with reflective sheeting to prevent a collision with the Earth. The asteroid, Apophis, is estimated to be perhaps 270 metres across and it will pass close to Earth in 2029.
The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet – the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.
The politics and science behind the birth of the America’s space program after World War 2. Extremely well-done documentary produced by JPL and CalTech.
Astronomers looking through the data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the world’s largest survey of galaxies, have found a new haul of objects closer to home - including one with a potentially exotic origin. By searching through a survey region known as Stripe 82, a team led by Dr Andrew Becker of the University of Washington, has discovered almo
The intriguing assortment of features within the nebula’s approximately 1 light-year diameter suggest its popular name, the Fetus Nebula, but planetary nebulae are not associated with star birth. Instead, nebulae like NGC 7008 are produced during a brief phase that sun-like stars pass through toward the end of their lives.