Alien Invasion Unlikely; Love Rooted in Evolution; Smokers Risk Losing Teeth

Posted September 15th, 2015 at 8:31 pm (UTC-4)

Dutch Scientist assures that An Alien Invasion is Unlikely Should we be fearful of an invasion by Aliens? Probably not any time soon, according to researchers involved in scanning the skies for signs of extraterrestrial life. Professor Michael Garrett, from the University of Leiden and the General and Scientific Director of the Netherlands Institute for […]

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Close Call for ISS; Threat to Polar Bears; Binary System Cannibal

Posted July 18th, 2015 at 1:00 am (UTC-4)

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ISS Crewmembers Back to Work after Close Call with Space Junk Fear that a floating piece of space junk could impact the ISS sent astronauts the station’s crew scrambling onto a docked Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft on Friday (07/17). Luckily, the debris passed the station harmlessly, and the crew was back at work. Houston’s Mission Control […]

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June 2015 Science Images

Posted June 29th, 2015 at 6:08 pm (UTC-4)

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Tags: "Expedition 43", "Hubble Space Telescope", "International Space Station", "planetary nebula", "Solar Dynamics Observatory", "solar flare", "Solar Impulse 2", "space station", "volcano eruption", “Anton Shkaplerov”, “breaks apart”, “Cape Canaveral”, “Jiujiang University”, “Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator”, “M7.9 class”, “molten lava”, “Mount Sinabung”, “NGC 6153”, “red aurora”, “robot teacher”, “Robotics Challenge”, “Samantha Cristoforetti”, “Saturn’s moon”, “solar powered airplane”, “Terry Virts”, “U.S. Navy sailors”, astronaut, Cassini, DARPA, Dione, Dragon, ESA, Falcon 9, Indonesia, JPL, Kazakhstan, LDSD, liftoff, Mars, NASA, parachute, robot, rocket, SDO, SpaceX, Sun, Xiomei Posted in Earth Science: Oceans, Geology, Environment, Physics, Science Photo Blog, Space, Technology

Science Scanner: Space Chiefs Commit to ISS Cooperation, ESA Prepares for Comet Landing, Media/Real Violence Study

Posted November 6th, 2014 at 1:00 pm (UTC-4)

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Space Agency Heads Reaffirm Commitment to ISS While the media has occasionally suggested over the past few months that the current diplomatic tension between the U.S. and Russia could impact the future of the International Space Station (ISS) mission, the heads of the space agencies involved with operating the ISS from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia […]

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Science Images of the Week

Posted July 4th, 2014 at 6:23 pm (UTC-4)

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Tags: "Atlantic Ocean", "atmospheric carbon dioxide", "Chandra X-Ray Observatory", "climate change", "composite image", "Hubble Space Telescope", "International Space Station", "National Science Foundation", "New York", "social media", "space agency", "space station", "spiral galaxy", “Aldebaran Robotics Company”, “Alexander Gerst”, “animal ambassador”, “annual health and weight check”, “Antarctic Aurora”, “Australian Reptile Park”, “Blue Morpho”, “Galapagos Tortoise”, “global distribution of carbon dioxide”, “grey wolf pup”, “human-produced greenhouse gas”, “humanoid robot”, “Hurricane Arthur”, “Karl Jansky Very Large Array”, “Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator”, “Magic Wings Butterfly House”, “Museum of Life and Science”, “NGC 4258”, “One World Trade Center”, “Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2”, “quarantine process”, “radio data”, “San Diego Zoo”, “saucer-shaped”, “struck by lightning”, “summer storm”, ”July Fourth holiday”, ”Pacific Missile Range Facility”, butterfly, Durham, Hugo, ISS, LDSD, M106, Mars, Nao, NASA, OCO-2, playing, robots, Shadow, spacecraft, Spitzer Space Telescope, Tweeted Posted in Science Photo Blog

Science Images of the Week

Posted June 13th, 2014 at 8:08 pm (UTC-4)

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Tags: "airplane into a home", "baby elephant", "Biscayne National Park", "Boeing 727", "Bupdapest Zoo", "convert to a home", "cooling off", "Destiny Laboratory", "Egyptian desert", "Electronic Entertainment Expo", "European Space Agency", "first mass produced fuel cell vehicle", "Florida Museum of Natural History", "fuel cell", "Harmony Node", "Herschel Space Observatory", "inside the ISS", "International Space Station", "NGC 1566", "NGC 7538, "night skies", "Omni Treadmill", "Orion Spacecraft", "produce stars", "Red Sea", "Reid Wiseman", "Rio de Janeiro", "Sao Paulo", "Schaus", "science images", "Solar Dynamics Laboratory", "solar flares", "space images", "space station", "star nursery", "swallowtail butterfly", "Unity Node", "video game", "Virtuix Oculus Rift", "World Cup", astronaut, Brazil, bursts, butterfly, Dorado, E3, endangered, extinction, galaxy, gamers, Hubble, ISS, jetliners, launch, NASA, stars, Sun Posted in Science Photo Blog

NASA Makes it Easier to Spot Space Station

Posted November 5th, 2012 at 8:10 pm (UTC-4)

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NASA is making it easier to spot the International Space Station (ISS) with the naked eye. The US space agency is offering a new service which alerts people a few hours before the space station is visible flying overhead. Enthusiasts who sign up the new service, Spot the Station, will receive notifications via email or […]

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