Don't Look Up, movie review: Smart, funny and depressing
A comet is about to cause an extinction-level event on Earth, whose inhabitants and leaders perversely look the other way, until it's too late.
A comet is about to cause an extinction-level event on Earth, whose inhabitants and leaders perversely look the other way, until it's too late.
Fifty years on from the Apollo 11 moon landing, I live like as an astronaut on the lunar surface … here on Earth. NASA has used this habitat, called HI-SEAS, or Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, to prepare astronauts for life on the moon or Mars. I try eating freeze-dried food, use a composting toilet and explore the lunar surface on EVA or extravehicular activity.
When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon's shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA data sets, visualizer Ernie Wright has created a new and more accurate representation of the eclipse. For the first time, we are able to see that the moon's shadow is better represented as a polygon. This more complicated shape is based NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's view of the mountains and valleys that form the moon's jagged edge. By combining moon's terrain, heights of land forms on Earth, and the angle of the sun, Wright is able to show the eclipse path with the greatest accuracy to date. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein Music: Life Choices by Eric Chevalier
Randall Munroe, author of the xkcd comic strip, has published Thing Explainer, a "how stuff works" book that explains things using diagrams and the thousand most common words. It's the Up-Goer Five idea expanded to a wide range of subjects.
OPINION: Indians think that a recent cartoon published by The New York Times is simply more evidence of the way the world looks at them despite their progress.
NASA is attempting to fill the skies with quieter, faster, more fuel efficient, and carbonless aircraft.
Nasa's orbiting Wise telescope has now detected 90 percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids in the sky, as well as conducting experiments in deep-space infrared astronomy
The Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first picture of the Vesta asteroid, which lies between Mars and Jupiter, after entering its orbit on Friday
The space agency has finally given up hope on its Spirit rover, which landed on the red planet in 2004 and went on to make numerous significant scientific discoveries
The R2B robot has undergone power testing on the International Space Station, where it will eventually help astronauts by carrying out menial and dangerous tasks