The 3.2 billion-pixel Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera is meant to "capture the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed."
Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets. But going to the Super Bowl isn’t enough anymore. For today’s uber-rich, it’s going to space that counts.
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.
The class of 2016 was challenged to do something creative with their acceptance packages. One student decided to launch hers 91,000 feet straight up.
There’s a nearly 6-ton big-as-a-bus and pretty much dead climate satellite—the largest in three decades—about to smack uncontrolled into planet Earth. There’s also a chance, albeit a ridiculously small one, that someone could get hit by one of its several dozens pieces made up of titanium, aluminum, steel and beryllium—the biggest weighs close to 300 [...]
Google and Slooh have partnered up to bring everyone live coverage of today’s 100-minute long lunar eclipse. The eclipse itself is expected to start at around 2:20PM Eastern, 11:20AM Pacific. Check out the video above.
This big asteroid, called Vesta, doesn’t look THAT scary. Then again, it’s 300,000 miles away from the camera. I’m sure it’d look a whole lot scarier from, say, 30,000 miles away. And 3,000 miles away? No thanks.
It’s where no phone has ever gone before. Next month, the iPhone – for the first time ever – will make its way into deep space.
Imagine peewee satellites the size of pennies tumbling through space like interstellar insects, collecting data and transmitting it home.
NASA is considering its weirdest space mission yet – sailing a robot boat on the methane lakes of Titan, Saturn’s sixth and largest moon.
There’s a treat in store for stargazers this coming Friday: a show of meteors from the tail of the most famous comet in the ‘Verse, Halley’s.
