When a satellite that cost $600 million to build and operate goes silent for 144 hours, you're going to get a few peeved astronomers.
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Behold! A Time-Lapse of the Aurora Borealis
If you weren't lucky enough to catch the latest "Northern Lights event," fear not! A time-lapse video can now show you every breathtaking moment of the spectacle.
Read More »Behold! This is How NASA Recovers Those Spent Rocket Boosters
Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!
Read More »The Florida Everglades are Garbage… No, Seriously.
The Florida Everglades, long thought to be just another side effect of Earth's ever-changing features, may now be a direct byproduct of ancient landfills.
Read More »Strange Weather Around Saturn
Methane rain storms on Titan? A storm that has encompassed 2/3rds of Saturn's northern hemisphere? It's been an active few months out 740 million miles from Earth.
Read More »Stargazer Catches ‘Discovery’ Dumping Its Waste
German skywatcher Jens Hackmann captured some video footage of the Space Shuttle 'Discovery' during its final mission as it dumped some of its more unsavory cargo before reentry.
Read More »NASA Mulling Over a Laser to Blast Space Debris
To help combat the growing concern of space debris in orbit around Earth, NASA is pondering the construction of a giant laser that could help knock potentially harmful chunks of debris from the sky.
Read More »Sperm Whales May Communicate With Names
If new research by a team of biologists is to be believed, then human beings may not be the only creatures on Earth that refer to each other by a proper name.
Read More »International Space Station is “Essentially” Finished
With all the hoopla over the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, it kind of went unnoticed that in completing their mission, Discovery installed the final section of the International Space Station.
Read More »Japanese Earthquake Shortened Earth’s Days
The earthquake that struck the coast of Japan in early March shifted Earth's rotation to the point where it actually shortened days -- by a microscopic amount.
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