All good things must come to an end. The Cassini mission, which involved sending a probe to Saturn to gather data on the gas planet and its system of moons, reached its conclusion earlier today. After what was deemed to be a smashing success, NASA ended things with a smash, crashing the probe into Saturn. […]
Everyone talking about NASA hiring someone to protect Earth against aliens needs to pump the brakes, because the main task of their Planetary Protection Officer position is something that makes a whole lot more sense considering the state of this planet — it’s to protect every other planet from Earth. You can check out the whole […]
When Coach announced they were buying Kate Spade, there was a contingent that worried about Coach scrubbing away Kate Spade’s quirkiness. Well, it’s too soon to tell what changes will come about because of the acquisition, but at least for this month, it looks like the effect is going in the opposite direction. Revealed earlier […]
What a summer it’s going to be for Lego fans! First we caught wind of this carousel set that can be paired up with a motor, and now we’re getting a celebration of the Moon landing — a Saturn V rocket set is coming! The Saturn V rocket is most famous for its role in the […]
It wouldn’t be the sort of life science fiction is made of, but it’d be an incredible find nonetheless — this week, NASA announced that one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, has the right conditions to allow for life to exist. Unfortunately, we won’t know whether or not it actually does for a long, long time. The […]
Lego Ideas remains the best. The user submission site has led to loads of awesome official Lego sets in the past few years, and the newest one might be our favorite so far. The Women of NASA minifigure set we took a look at last year has made it through the whole approval process, and […]
In May of last year, astronomers from MIT and the University of Liège discovered a dwarf star they named TRAPPIST-1. The relatively cool star had three planets in its orbit, one of which was situated in just the right zone to meet the conditions for life. Well, it wasn’t just us who thought that was a […]
Lego did right by everyone when they started up Lego Ideas. Lego fans can submit their own dream sets (and possibly get a bit of cash if they become real), Lego has an endless supply of creative suggestions, and we all get some awesome new sets out of it in the end. The fan submission […]
When it comes time to get inspired, there are few better sources to turn to than NASA. The Hubble Space Telescope has taken countless gorgeous pictures of star clusters, galaxies, and constellations that exist light years and light years away from our home planet. Are those pictures as inspiring when made into an LED light-up […]
Today, NASA announced that their Juno space probe had successfully started orbiting Jupiter, in the culmination of a journey that started five years ago. The probe will get much closer to the gas giant than we’ve ever been before, allowing NASA scientists to better understand both the planet and its many moons. We were also […]
In 2013, Jessica Meir, Anne McClain, Christina Hammock Koch, and Nicole Aunapu Mann became one half of NASA’s latest class of astronauts, marking the first time a class of astronauts was half made up of women. It’s a good class to be in, too — they’ll be under consideration for a manned mission to Mars, […]
Today, NASA gave everyone a glimpse into what it’s like up above the atmosphere on NASA Television, which you should definitely check out. Today, they streamed part of a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk, as two astronauts set about routing cables to prepare for a couple new parts to be delivered soon to the International Space Station. […]
If all goes well, NASA will test new technology early Saturday morning that could make it much easier to retrieve samples collected on the International Space Station.
With Apollo 11 – and manned trips to the Moon in general – well in the past, it’s easy to take the Moon for granted. Such is the fate of a daily constant. But, as NASA has made clear today, the Moon has had a geographic history just as tumultuous and fascinating as our own.
NASA is throwing their own Festival of Lights, with two new images awash in brilliant colors and awe-inspiring swirls that reveal the staggeringly immense beauty of outer space. The green-tinted cloud is Barnard 3, an interstellar cloud where new stars are being formed in countless numbers. NASA’s Cosmic Ornament is a bright white star surrounded […]
The universe is unfathomably large, so much so that you would think there are countless planets out there like our own, perfectly suited for supporting life. But, proof has been elusive – never before has there been confirmation of a planet other than our own in the habitable zone, the right distance that is neither […]
