NASA just dropped a new image of Mars capturing real clouds sitting about 250 million miles away. This shot features rare iridescent clouds that have been observed for the first time on another planet.
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Titan is getting a visitor, and the ride there is a SpaceX launch in 2028. NASA's Dragonfly is the payload, and the plan has it touching down on Saturn's biggest moon in 2034. What's actually flying is wild: a…
NASA Dragonfly mission to Titan
NASA obtained images of the open star cluster NGC 2264 and the formation actually looks like a large Christmas tree right?
NASA's X-59 crossed the United States in a flight that stayed within US airspace. This supersonic jet features an extended nose design and flies at speeds exceeding sound while avoiding typical sonic booms.
NASA X-59 crosses United States
NASA engineers have managed to regain contact with Voyager 1 after suddenly losing it for 2 days. They're trying to fix the 49 year-old probe from over 16,000,000,000 miles away, and somehow NASA is pulling it off.…
Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman says NASA could learn a lot from F1, and that their engineering is miles ahead of NASA's. Oh, they crush us. The level of engineering here at F1, they smoke us.
Glass domes on the Moon is the pitch Skyeports LLC is running with, and NASA is funding the study through the LUNGS project. The play: lunar soil gets melted down with microwave technology, then that molten glass gets…
Skyeports LUNGS glass habitats on the Moon
The Helix Nebula is 700 light-years out, and NASA just put out a new image of it. Per the source, it's the closest nebula to Earth, and they also say it's constantly watching us. That last part is doing a lot
A 17-year-old NASA intern discovered a planet 6.9 times bigger than Earth on his third day. In 2019, Wolf Cukier noticed an unusual signal in space telescope data that turned out to be TOI-1338 b.
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Rooney vs Lacy Greening reaction
Four CubeSats linking up in orbit and calling their own plays is the whole Starling mission story. NASA sent the small spacecraft up on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket, and after 10 months of orbiting they started…
NASA Starling CubeSats swarm demo
Usain Bolt closes out this whole board at 44.7 km/h for the fastest human, which is the funniest possible way to end a list that starts with the Parker Solar Probe at 692,000 km/h. That gap is unreal. NASA and the…
Fastest in the World by Category
Gravity can turn a foreground galaxy into a cosmic lens, bending a background galaxy's light so it wraps into a ring. That is gravitational lensing, and the result is an Einstein ring, a rare alignment where the…
Einstein ring gravitational lensing explained
