2017 Solar Eclipse Glasses Buying Guide
Over the weekend, Amazon sent notices to customers who bought solar eclipse glasses and viewers from fraudulent manufacturers who didn’t meet safety standards. The...
New Energy guidelines: Politicians can’t pressure scientists
A new set of scientific integrity guidelines, announced today, wants to give researchers more leeway in their communications with the media as a way...
Google Celebrates Stephen Hawking’s Posthumous 80th Birthday with Captivating Doodle
Foremost astronomer and physicist would have celebrated his 80th birthday on January 8, 2022, if he was alive – but Google celebrated the occasion...
Hubble spots light-eating exoplanet WASP-12b
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the exoplanet WASP-12b on Thursday to calculate how much light it reflects back into space. The Hot Jupiter is...
Orbital ATK is ready to give the Antares 230 a second...
Orbital ATK (NASDAQ: OA) is getting ready to give its Antares rocket a second chance since the infamous 2014 incident. On October 17, the aerospace company...
NOAA: GOES-16 Satellite starts sending HD photos of Earth
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released the first images of Earth taken by the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on the agency’s Geostationary...
NASA: Get ready for the August 21 total solar eclipse
On Thursday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the partial solar eclipse that was visible in the United States that afternoon. Millions of people...
Take great photos of the Full Wolf Moon 2017
The first full moon of 2017 is upon us with January’s Wolf Moon, visible in night skies since Wednesday and reaching its most visible...
NASA honors Apollo 1 crew fallen 50 years ago
Hundreds of people gathered along with Kennedy Space Center workers to pay tribute to NASA’s Apollo 1 crew and other astronauts fallen in the...
Chinese space station Tiangong-1 could reenter Earth on April Fool’s
According to the European Space Agency, the first Chinese space station Tiangong 1 will be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere sometime between March 30 and April...