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This Stunning Photo of the Milky Way Could Carpet An Entire Apartment

A beautiful, zoomable, nine-gixapixel photo of the central Milky Way
October 24, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Will NASA’s Newest Crowdsourcing Gambit End with a Curiosity or a COLBERT?

NASA needs your help naming its new research facility
October 23, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

The Best Graphics That Make You Realize You Don’t Know How Big Anything Actually Is

Here are the best scale visualizations out there, starting with the classic Powers of Ten video that melted the faces of everyone alive in 1977
October 22, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Either Curiosity Is Shedding Or Mars Is Covered in Weird Shiny Particles

After an unknown object turned out to be nothing but plastic, scientists were surprised to find more shiny things buried in the dirt
October 17, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Feel Like You’re Flying at Warp Speed: Watch This Video of Stacked-Up Space Photos

A unique time-lapse technique turns familiar views into psychedelic art
October 17, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

X-Ray Telescope Puts Glorious Nebulae in New Light

Composite images show stunning nebula in a new way
October 11, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

One Tiny Piece of Space Debris Can Destroy a Satellite

Roughly 21,000 pieces of space junk orbit near the Earth
October 05, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Events October 5-7: Mrs. Judo, Staring at the Sun and Chamber Society Music

This weekend, a 99-year old judo legend, a scientist who studies the sun and a season-opener with the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society.
October 04, 2012 | By Leah Binkovitz

This Is What Happens When a Black Hole Eats a Black Hole

A super-computer simulation calculates what happens when two black holes merge
October 03, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Scientists Identify the Edge of a Massive Black Hole for the First Time

New data from another galaxy's black hole allows researchers to study the "event horizon" beyond which no matter can escape
October 02, 2012 | By Leah Binkovitz

Curiosity Nails It: Mars Used to Have Flowing Water

Scientists report what they suggest is the best evidence yet that water flowed on Mars
September 27, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

It’s Now Legal for Early American Astronauts to Sell Their Space Toothbrushes

A new law lays out the details of who owns souvenirs from the early space era
September 27, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Carved From Meteorite, This Thousand-Year-Old Statue Was Taken From Tibet by the Nazi SS

Crafted from a meteorite fragment, Nazis may have taken this early Tibetan relic because it displayed a swastika
September 27, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

If We Had Followed This Plan, We’d Be Living on Mars By Now

If you think Curiosity is exciting, imagine where we could have been if someone had put these guys in charge
September 25, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Top 5 “Science Done Right” Moments in Movies

Directors take note: scientist and author David Kirby commends the accuracy in these popular films
September 21, 2012 | By Megan Gambino

Top 5 “Science Done Wrong” Moments in Movies

From asteroids to cloning, author and scientist David Kirby weighs in
September 19, 2012 | By Megan Gambino

A Solar Eclipse, As Seen From the Surface of Mars

Advances in space exploration has changed the way we see eclipses
September 18, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

Mysterious Spheres on Mars Are ‘Crunchy on the Outside’ And ‘Softer in the Middle’

Opportunity had found an unusual rock formation on Mars
September 17, 2012 | By Mary Beth Griggs

International Space Station Cameras Will Bring Earth to You, Live, 24/7

Two HD video cameras will stream free live video back from space
September 17, 2012 | By Colin Schultz

50 Years Ago, JFK Sent Us to the Moon

President Kennedy bolstered American support for his mission to the Moon with a speech at Rice University 50 years ago today
September 12, 2012 | By Colin Schultz


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