Black hole caught committing murder
Most homicide cases involve finding the murderer, but this is the first time NASA have been able to identify a stellar homicide victim.
Observing the Sun
The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the Solar Orbiter mission in 2017. It will investigate the connections between the Sun and the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system….
Tiny spherules reveal asteroid impact history
More asteroids hit Earth billion of years ago than we thought.
Red giants’ weight loss trick
These old stars don’t need diets, they use stellar winds to lose weight instead.
A view from above: Australian Outback
Astronaut and World Wide Fund for Nature ambassador André Kuipers took this picture of the Australian Outback in March 2012. It was release during Earth Hour to raise awareness about climate change.
From flying pigeons and cats
This video from the Aerospace Medical Division Hq 657Oth Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories includes scenes from an F-104 seat ejection trial and the effects of weightlessness on cats and pigeons in a C-131.
