<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>On September 20th, NASA announced the opening of registration for its <strong>Mars Balance Mass Challenge</strong> and the launch of its new website, <strong>NASA Solve</strong>, at the World Maker Faire
<p>Every summer, something strange and wonderful happens high above the north pole. Ice crystals begin to cling to the smoky remains of meteors, forming electric-blue clouds with tendrils that
<p>A favorite theme of science fiction is “the portal”–an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide,
<p>Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school
<p>Earth’s magnetic field reverberated from a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) impact during the early hours of Jan. 22nd. The hit compressed Earth’s magnetic field, briefly exposing some geosynchronous satellites to
<p>Here is a stunning, mind-blowing time lapse video of the Earth at night, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station:</p> <p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>The video, taken by astronauts and edited by Michael
<p>ESA’s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying
Noctilucent Clouds <p>The 2011 <a href="https://www.nightskyobserver.com/earth/noctilucent-clouds-in-2009/">noctilucent cloud</a> (NLC) season has begun. For the past few nights, observers in northern parts of Europe have spotted velvety, electric-blue tendrils rippling across the sunset
<p>Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance:
<p>An active region just over the sun’s eastern horizon is crackling with solar flares and hurling material high above the stellar surface. </p> <p>One of yesterday’s flares, a C4-class event,