NASA is considering its weirdest space mission yet – sailing a robot boat on the methane lakes of Titan, Saturn’s sixth and largest moon.
The project – which we like not just for its ambition but also for its codename, “TiME”, which stands for Titan Mare Explorer – is one of three on a shortlist for launch in 2016.
Titan is big, …
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.
The Aquarid meteors should be appearing in the early hours of May 6th. They will appear to be coming from the constellation Aquarius (hence their name).
Right now, Halley’s comet is a long …
The launch of Endeavour from Kennedy Space Center has been put back until next Sunday, May 8th, NASA said yesterday.
A last-minute fault has been traced back to power switches that operate heaters on a fuel line in the auxiliary power unit.
No, we don’t know exactly what that means, either, but it sounds pretty important.
The …
Aliens of the galaxy, your attention please!
Earth’s primitive alien-searching technology has been all but switched off. If you guys were planning to invade our planet (you know, superhuge spaceship hovering over every major city, that sort of thing) – now’s your chance.
The SETI Project‘s funding for running the Allen Telescope …
Blast off with some more money in your wallet. Long are the days when you shelled out $20 million for a trip into space –Virgin Galactic is instead offering rides for $200,000. That’s two zeros shaved off the price. Just forget buying a home, you don’t really need protection from the elements anyways.
What does that get you? A …
Calling all astronauts, dreamers and little boys everywhere. Virgin Galactic is looking for pilot-astronauts and they want YOU to be part of their team.
So what does this gig exactly entail? Well, the position is based in Mojave, California, where you will be working with the development of a spaceflight system test. Once the project …
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s swan song will have to wait an extra 10 days, after a scheduling conflict with a Russian spacecraft forced NASA to delay the shuttle’s final launch from April 19 to April 29.
It’s a matter of who gets to go first, or actually how many get to go at the same time: In this case, an unmanned Russian cargo ship …
I know it’s April Fools, and that claiming half the sun just disappeared sounds a little ridiculous, but we’re not kidding: Half the sun just disappeared. Really!
It happened Tuesday, during a partial eclipse (caused by us–you know, the Earth) and a NASA satellite in high orbit managed to snap it in action. That’s the shot up top, …
This is the trailer for First Orbit a unique new film that’s due for global release via YouTube on April 12th, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned orbit of the Earth.
The 108-minute film was made by British filmmaker Chris Riley, who engaged the help of an astronaut on the International Space Station to
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From the International Space Station to the snowy stretches of central Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts have safely returned to earth.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly and Russians Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri touched down today (March 16), a few minutes before 0800 GMT, bringing to …
It’s hard to decipher what that bright light you saw in the sky was or, if you know when to look, where that shooting star should be located.
NASA’s All Sky Fireball Network aims to make the process of night sky gazing a lot easier. Using three video cameras located in Tullahoma, Tenn.; Chickamauga, Geor.; and Huntsville, Ala., …
Even if we save up all our paychecks, we’re not going to get to space any time soon. It’s going to cost us $200,000 a pop to reach the final frontier, and upwards from that if we want to be a moon walker or say hi the arsenic-based aliens. Since you can’t go yourself, why not send a (digital) picture of yourself or your loved one?
For …
