What if we found extraterrestrial life on another planet…but it actually originated on Earth?
The most massive, hottest, brightest galaxy cluster ever seen has been discovered 7 billion light years away. Nickname? El Gordo — Spanish for “the fat one.” Photo here
The above photo is the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light.
The ribbons seen in the image are giant ripples of dust spanning tens or hundreds of light-years. Color indicates temperature. The coolest areas appear in red; the hottest in blue. PHOTO: ESA/NASA/JPL-CALTECH/STSCI.
More NASA photos
”GRAIL A and GRAIL B — washing-machine sized satellites designed to map the surface and interior of the moon — are now zipping around the moon in an elliptical orbit after a three-month, 2.5-million-mile journey.”
These NASA satellites may help answer some fundamental questions about the moon.
(Artist’s rendering. Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Scientists used color data obtained by the Dawn spacecraft to show the asteroid Vesta’s southern hemisphere in color.
Vesta is the second-most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Will Worms Help Us Get to Mars?
GIF of movements of the Caenorhabditis elegans worm, which was the first to produce 12 generations of offspring - in space -
A satellite designed to study the Earth’s weather and climate launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket early Friday.
(Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
More than 1,750 items derived from NASA inventions have made their way to consumer culture.
(PHOTO: Marathon finish line blankets. Photo by NASA Spinoff Magazine.)
Between the Third Rock and a Hot Place: Meet Earth’s ‘Trojan’ Asteroid
There’s a shadow asteroid that has been following the earth around our orbit for thousands of years, and we just discovered it. Tell me that’s not cool.
Click through to watch an animation of the path of the asteroid.
