The space observatory ‘Kepler‘ launched by NASA to identify Earth-like planets in March 2009 has found just over 1700 planets to date. This to-scale animation shows those identified planets and …
Wanderers, a short film by Erik Wernquist
I stumbled across this short film by Erik Wernquist this weekend. It was a film featured in Vimeo’s Staff Picks Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik …
ESA Rosetta Philea lands on Comet!
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae lander from the Rosetta space mission has finally landed on the P67 Comet a few minutes ago! Amazing! #67P at 08:21 UT during #CometLanding …
ESA promotes Rosetta comet mission with film
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a short sci-fi movie to promote its audacious Rosetta comet mission. Ambition is a collaboration between Platige Image and ESA. Directed by Tomek Bagiński and …
NASA’s Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment
Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Since the dawn of the space age, unmanned spacecraft have flown blind with little or no ability to make autonomous decisions based on the content of the …
Voyager 1 spacecraft reaches edge of solar system
View PostChina’s first manned space flight
New scientist reports that China will launch their first human space flight following week-long celebrations on 1 October. The Shenzhou spacecraft will carry a single Chinese astronaut into space and …
A photo from space of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
The International Space Station’s science officer Don Pettit took this photo of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, near Luxor.
Photo of London from the International Space Station
Here is a night photograph of the streetlights in London, England taken by a digital camera from the International Space Station.
SpaceImaging.com a gallery of cities, events from space
I came across the Space Imaging website whist visiting Ani Dash’s blog site. The Space Imaging site contains a huge selection of imagery from satellite of locations around the world. …