NASA’s Latest Satellite Launch Isn’t Flashy But is Vital
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket roared to life on the Florida coast this morning. Sitting atop it was NASA’s TDRS-M satellite. It isn’t aiming for another world.…
Space is Better Captured – The Cameras In and Outside the ISS
It’s not all science aboard the International Space Station. Astronaut Scott Kelly proved you need to stop and take in the view. They are members of an elite club.…
Astrobotic Soars to the Moon in New Video Animation
SpaceX grabs most of the headlines when it comes to the private sector, but there are plenty of companies with ambitions of reaching the final frontier. Astrobotic is one…
Cassini’s Last Five Orbits Around Saturn
August is shaping up to be quite the month for space fans. The Perseid Meteor Shower is peaking this weekend. SpaceX is preparing for another ISS resupply mission. A…
US Army’s DJI Memo Already Under Review at the Pentagon
All day the drone / sUAS community was in full speculation mode over the leaked US Army memo saying all DJI products were grounded over cyber vulnerability concerns. Most…
SpaceX is Heading Back to the ISS This Month. Here’s What We Know
SpaceX’s busy year continues on August 13th. That’s when a Falcon 9 is expected to shoot off its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida en route to…
DJI Teams With Twitch for RoboMaster 2017 Finals
Missed BattleBots? DJI has you covered with RoboMaster 2017. The finals are set to air this weekend from Shenzhen, also known as the Silicon Valley of China. Jump over…
The ‘Impossible’ Photograph That Nabbed Nat Geo’s Travel Photographer of the Year
The winner of the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year (2017) snapped a photo that doesn’t even look real. Sergio Tapiro Velasco won a 10-day trip for two…
The Moon Won’t Completely Wreck This Month’s Perseid Meteor Shower
There’s nothing quite like watching a good meteor shower. The handful of meteors you might see on a regular, clear night turn into dozens during a meteor shower’s peak.…
Look in Awe at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot as If You Were There
True-color. It’s what we call images that show how an object looks to human eyes. NASA loves to slap enhanced color effects on images of other worlds. It’s not…
Next Month’s Solar Eclipse at 50,000 Feet
The best spots to see next month’s solar eclipse will enjoy about two and a half minutes of totality. At least, on the ground. One team of NASA-funded scientists…
A Piece of the Space Shuttle Could Help Pave the Way for Mars Missions
The Donatello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) used to sit in the space shuttle payload bay filled with cargo bound for the International Space Station. Now, Lockheed Martin is going…
Adobe Signals 2020 as The End of Flash
Once ubiquitous on the web, Flash is seeing the last of its days. Especially when most of the major tech companies have signaled they have or are moving away…
How Scientists Hunt for Water in the Moon’s Interior
The last time we had boots on the moon’s surface was almost 45 years ago with Apollo 17. And the samples gathered during this mission are helping shape what…
Mars’ Moon Phobos is Moving in a Hurry in Fresh Hubble Images
The tiny moon Phobos wasn’t the target for the Hubble Space Telescope. Mars was. Last May, the famous space telescope was tasked with observing Mars near opposition. That is…
SpaceX’s Elon Musk is Tempering Expectations for its First Falcon Heavy Launch
Right now, SpaceX is riding a wave of success. Launch after launch, payloads are delivered into Earth orbit. And history made along the way with two reusable rockets and…
A Stunning Bird’s Eye View of Pluto’s Jagged Mountains and Icy Plains
New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever launched, delivered breathtaking images two years ago when it flew just 7,800 miles above Pluto’s surface. The drab world most of us thought…
Scientists Use Radar to Keep Track of Monstrous Iceberg About to Break Off Antarctica (UPDATE)
2.8 miles of ice. That’s all that is keeping a 6,000 square kilometer size chunk of ice attached to Antarctica. That’s bigger than the surface area of the Great…
Hey Alexa – Give us Some Amazon Prime Day Tech Deals
Get ready for doorbuster deals on Amazon’s Echo and Echo Dot. The speakers have been slashed to $90 for the larger Echo and $35 for the Echo Dot. If…