NASA
Water Vapor Detected In Europa’s Atmosphere
Observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the presence of persistent water vapor — but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere. Europa harbors a vast ocean underneath its icy surface, which...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Honeywell FM&T President Interview
Interview with 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award manufacturing recipient Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies President, Anthony Brancato, III, on the organization's success and world-class results achieved from...
Cerebellum
Space Facts - The First Us Woman In Space, Comets Impact Jupiter
A fact-filled look at 23 of the most important events from man's on-going adventure in space. 1982, the first US woman was sent into space. Comets smash into Jupiter and the impacts of this were recorded. Space Facts. Part 7
Next Animation Studio
ClearSpace wins contract for space debris collecting spacecraft: ESA
The European Space Agency has commissioned the world’s first mission to capture a piece of space debris from Earth's orbit in 2025.
The Wall Street Journal
The Next Big Thing, Part 1
At WSJ Tech Live in Laguna Beach, Anousheh Ansari, the CEO of XPRIZE and Aicha Evans, the CEO of Zoox discuss what will keep the engine of tech innovation running in an era of skeptical users and wary regulators.
NASA
Surprises from Asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration -- going from ground-based radar images from Arecibo in Puerto Rico all the way to orbiting a few hundred meters from asteroid Bennu. The team is mere months...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx: Above and Beyond
Since arriving at asteroid Bennu in Dec. 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has achieved many feats – from setting a record-breaking orbit, to mapping the asteroid’s surface better than any planetary body. The mission is now preparing to...
NASA
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Approaches Asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission launched in 2016 and now (August, 2018) is entering its approach phase. OSIRIS-REx will arrive at asteroid Bennu in December, 2018. OSIRIS-REx will help unveil the mysteries of our solar...
NASA
Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids
Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees. These primitive bodies are thought to be the “fossils” of planet...
NASA
NASA | MAVEN MOI live shot with Jim Green
Jim Green gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.
NASA
NASA | IBEX: Exploring The Edge Of Our Solar System
IBEX is a new NASA mission that will study the interaction between the solar wind and the material beyond our solar system called the interstellar medium. The solar wind flowing out from the sun inflates a bubble that we call the...
NASA
Meet ICON: NASA's Airglow Explorer
NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, launches in December 2017 [Ed. note: the launch date has subsequently been scheduled for Nov. 7, 2018] and orbits above the upper atmosphere, through the bottom edge of near-Earth space....
Curated Video
Confucius, 5th Century BC
Watch the story behind the most influential individual in human history ‘Confucius’ the legendary thinker and symbol of Chinese Culture. Discover the philosphy of Confucius, who had one aim to create Wisdom and spread the moral practise...
ZooMoo
Flash: Sheep Hair Cut
Flash is on a mission to get the perfect photograph of a sheep being shorn.
NASA
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: Mission to Bennu
OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program. Its goal is to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a remnant from the dawn of the solar system, and to return a sample of Bennu to Earth in 2023. OSIRIS-REx launched in...
NASA
Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang—the farthest individual star ever seen to...
NASA
NASA | The Van Allen Probes - Instrument Overview
Dr. David Sibeck explains the instruments on the twin Van Allen Probes (formerly the Radiation Belt Storm Probe, RBSP). The Van Allen Probes will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth's magnetosphere. The charged particles...
NASA
NASA | IRIS: The Science of NASA's Newest Solar Explorer
At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its newest mission to watch the sun: the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. IRIS will show the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere, the interface region, in more detail than has...
NASA
NASA | For Good Measure
The need for measuring the when and where and how much of precipitation goes beyond our weekend plans. We also need to know precipitaiton on a global scale. Rain gauges and radars are useful but are inconsistent and do not cover enough...
NASA
How Hubble’s Servicing Mission 3A Saved the Day
After Hubble’s important gyroscopes began to fail, a Hubble emergency was declared and Servicing Mission 3 was quickly split into two separate launches. So on Dec. 19, 1999, the brave crew of space shuttle Discovery lifted off to switch...
NASA
Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak! This supermassive black hole, over 4 million times more massive than our Sun, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA’s Hubble...
NASA
Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took direct ultraviolet images of the icy moon Europa transiting across the disk of Jupiter. Out of ten observations, Hubble saw what may be water vapor plumes on three of the images. This adds another piece...
NASA
ATom Mission interview clips — Jack Dibbs
Flying into "clean" air during #EarthExpedition ATom mission, Jack Dibbs of the University of New Hampshire explains what he expects to find on his aerosol filters as they travel to the remotest parts of the atmosphere. The ATom mission...
Next Animation Studio
Set for launch: Starship’s huge cargo bay will unlock space
Scheduled to launch for the first time on top of its Super Heavy booster in January 2022, SpaceX’s Starship is set to revolutionize space exploration.