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World's Largest Telescope Begins Construction After nearly a decade of planning, construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope is finally underway. And boy, does it look cool. Perched high in the mountains of northern Chile, the GMT—whose primary optics consist of 7 separate 8.4-meter (27...

India's Recent Heat Wave Was Absolutely Brutal India is known for becoming a sweltering furnace in May, but last month was exceptionally brutal, with temperatures hovering 10 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for nearly two weeks. By June 4th, the heat wave had claimed over 2,500 lives...

Cooking chicken and rice in space is always fun to see Every variation of chicken and rice is great so even though this space version of tumeric chicken and whole red rice looks like the least chicken and rice-y dish ever (for obvious utilitarian reasons), I would totally give it a bite or...

Peer Out The Window Of A Rocket Returning To Earth What does it look like when one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets falls back to Earth? Here’s the view of our gorgeous planet captured during the uncontrolled tumble to reentry. The coolest thing about the Falcon 9R rockets is hidden in the name...

Unfortunately no, that wouldn't fly when I was in the Navy:(. A worker is seen preparing the launch gantry to be rolled back from the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory onboard, at the Space Launch Complex 2. Image Credit...

The Chronicles of 'Merica Liberty and Justice for all? The CSA's revenge Alaska into Russian:o:... NOPE:usflag:!!! The real Ireland North 'Merica, best 'Merica:usflag: (click on the image if it's too small)

Solar-Array Deployment Test for InSight Engineers and technicians at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, run a test of deploying the solar arrays on NASA's InSight lander in this April 30, 2015 image. Photo credit to JPL/NASA Mars Weather-Station Tools on Rover's Mast The Rover...

We're Keeping A Close Eye On This Hole Punched In The Surface Of Mars This crater on Mars is so fresh, it still has sharp, clean edges unsoftened by countless landslides. This one-kilometer diameter crater near Sirenum Fossae on Mars isn’t a brand-new impact spotted within hours, but the...

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When you need to test hardware designed to operate in the vast reaches of space, you start in a vacuum chamber. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has many of them, but Vacuum Chamber 5 (VF-5) is special. Supporting the testing of electric propulsion and power systems, VF-5 has the...

Everything You Need to Know About Today's DARPA Robotics Challenge The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals kick off today in Pomona, California, with 24 teams from around the world competing for $3.5 million in prizes. We’re here at the event to bring you the latest robotic thrills and spills...

The World's Biggest Aircraft Could Launch a New Age of Airships Airships lost much of their popularity after the fiery Hindenburg disaster in 1937. But one company’s looking to revive the technology with the biggest aircraft on Earth. It’s called the Airlander 10: over 300 feet long, it’s a...

Hubble Images Turned 3D Are Your Best Chance To Fly Through A Nebula The Hubble telescope has been responsible for showing us some of the universes most incredible sights. But as lovely as they are, sometimes seeing them flat just isn’t enough. Which is why we love this 3D nebula fly-by so...

This ISS to Earth 'Handshake' Was First Space-To-Ground Remote Control Humankind has remote-controlled plenty of objects in space before, but up until this week, no space-to-ground control —a vital component in mankind’s future invasion of other planets—had happened. The demonstration of...

Well after Saturday, whose forecast is looking cloudy, but not rainy, that leaves NASA with 6 days in their current launch window. That's the bad news. The good news is that the rest of the week should be relatively normal, assuming the forecast is accurate. NOAA is reporting scattered...

Stupid weather:angry: always ruining our fun. Hoping it makes the window:yahoo::usflag:. A few more pics of the LDSD courtesy of NASA: Moon Sets Over Dress Rehearsal for Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator | NASA

Sciency pics Earth’s cloudy nature is unmistakable in this global cloud fraction map, based on data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite. This version of the map shows an average of all of the satellite’s cloud observations between...

A herdsman riding a horse directs a large herd of cattle, sheep and goats as they migrate to the summer pasturing areas at a mountainous region in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, May 31, 2015. Photo credit to China Daily The Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered plane, is...

Scientists Grew a Rat Limb in the Lab The dream of regrowing limbs? It’s just gotten one step closer. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have grow a rat forearm out of living cells in the lab. A primate limb may be next. As New Scientist explains, the lab-grown limb makes use of...