Space Imagery
You Can Now See the Aurora Borealis on Google Maps
The Aurora Borealis, or "Northern Lights," are one of the most beautiful spectacles that Earth has to offer, but they can usually only...
Janey Tracey
Thursday, 15 January 2015 - 4:44PM
The Most Amazing Mars Images from 11 Years of the Opportunity Rover
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover first touched down on the Red Planet on January 25, 2004. In that time it has made a multitude of...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015 - 2:41PM
Space Suite: Artist Animates Cassini and Hubble Images to Visualize the Universe
Realistic animation of space is all the rage these days, but even so, this beautiful video stands out among the pack. Visual effects...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015 - 11:26AM
NASA Makes Travel Posters for Destination Exoplanets
Ever wanted to travel to an exoplanet? NASA has now released travel guides to three different exoplanets for their Exoplanet Travel...
Wednesday, 07 January 2015 - 11:11AM
Hubble's Pillars of Creation Then and Now: Image Comparison from 1995 and 2015
In honor of the Hubble telescope's 25th anniversary, scientists have recreated the iconic image of the Pillars of Creation. Twenty...
The 8 Best Moments of NASA's MESSENGER
After a decade of groundbreaking research, NASA's probe MESSENGER will finish its mission in 2015. It will do one last thruster boost...
Monday, 05 January 2015 - 2:31PM
Watch: The ISS Shoots Past the Moon
Every once in a while, the ISS does a fly-by past the moon and can be seen with the naked eye, or at least a good camera. On December...
Tuesday, 30 December 2014 - 2:09PM
Astronaut Creates Amazing Time Lapse of Earth from Six Months in Space
Astronaut Alexander Gerst spent six months on the International Space Station on the Blue Dot mission, returning in November. In that...
Monday, 29 December 2014 - 4:24PM
NASA Publishes Beautiful GIFs of Earth to Celebrate Anniversary of Satellites
In 1999, NASA launched the Terra satellite system, intended to observe Earth's climate, and particularly climate change. In honor of...
Friday, 19 December 2014 - 10:26AM
Cassini Sends Back Beautiful Global Maps of Saturn's Moons
Cassini has spent ten years collecting data and images in an effort to comprehensively map Saturn's six major icy moons, and the...
Thursday, 11 December 2014 - 4:26PM
Planck Captures Detailed Images of Milky Way's Magnetic Field for the First Time
These beautiful images show some of the first images of our galaxy's magnetic field, and the first to be taken in this much detail....
Can Physics, Biology, and Art Be Unified Under One Mathematical Constant?
The golden ratio, extracted from the infamous Fibonacci sequence, has been theorized to be a "cosmic constant," or a mathematical...
Short Film 'Wanderers' Beautifully Imagines the Future of Space Travel
The short film "Wanderers" from Swedish filmmaker Erik Wernquist is essentially Interstellar without all that pesky love stuff. Like...
This 4K, Ultra-HD Time Lapse of Earth Will Blow You Away
There are countless timelapses of our planet out there on the internet, but this latest example from Elektro-L, Russia's first weather...
Kieran Dickson
The Last Pictures: Artist Sends the Human Race's Photographic Legacy Into Space
What will be left of humanity after we're gone? That's the question New York artist Trevor Paglen attempted to answer in his recent...
Science Art
Watch: Video Essay of Earth as Seen from the ISS
Did you go see Interstellar for some amazing space imagery and get annoyed with all the sappy human drama like we did? If so, then...
Friday, 07 November 2014 - 10:06AM
Watch: Simulation of Black Hole Collision Rips Spacetime to Shreds
A recent study from Cornell University demonstrated what a merger of two black holes would look like, and it's fairly terrifying. ...
The Most Amazing Pictures of This Week's Partial Solar Eclipse
Last night, the moon traveled between the sun and the Earth causing a partial solar eclipse, in which 40%-80% of the sun's light was...
Friday, 24 October 2014 - 11:48AM
India's Mars Orbiter Mission Captures Beautiful Image of the Solar System's Biggest Volcano
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has been broadcasting some truly breathtaking views of our planetary neighbor in recent weeks, but...
Thursday, 23 October 2014 - 12:25PM
Stunning Rosetta Images Reveal Sand Dunes on Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko
It's a large icy lump of rock that has spent millions of years hurtling through the vacuum of space, so you can imagine the surprise...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014 - 10:43AM
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