NASA releases striking images of Earth’s radical changes
NASA's official Tumblr page recently posted a group of images to showcase our planet's recent surface changes. The pictures compare current snapshots taken from...
NOAA’s GOES-16 Lighting Mapper sends back first images
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has released the first images from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument on the agency’s Geostationary Environmental...
New Horizons discovers clouds in Pluto, aims at next target
The New Frontiers program keeps finding new things in our cosmos. NASA scientists have received a new batch of data from the New Horizons...
Comet 45P will decorate the night sky on New Year’s Eve
2016 will have its own personal farewell, as a comet that travels around the solar system will be visible shortly after the sunset of...
NASA catches sight of water plumes on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble telescope have detected potential plumes of water vapor ejected from the surface of Europa, Jupiter’s renowned icy moon. The sighting...
This Lithium-Ion battery has a built in fire extinguisher
A research team from Stanford University released a document detailing their experiments with the flame retardant triphenyl phosphate (or TPP). They plan to include...
Here Are the Three Private Citizens Who Paid $55 Million Each...
Three private citizens – Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe, will be hitching a ride to the ISS after paying about $55 million each....
Scientists seek to prove Loch Ness Monster’s existence using DNA tests
'Scientists in Great Britain have decided to carry out an experiment that could determine if one of Scotland’s greatest legends is, in fact, a...
Putin boosts new space race hinting at Mars missions in 2019
President Vladimir Putin has announced Russia’s plans on both manned and unmanned missions to Mars, the Moon, and deeper outer space. Most of these...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launches Four Astronauts on NASA’s Behalf to the...
Following several delays and postponements, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully launched four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday. This would be SpaceX’s fourth...