There’s a vacancy at NASA, and it may have one of the greatest job titles ever conceived: planetary protection officer. It pays well, between $124,000 and $187,000 annually. You get to work with really smart people as part of the three- to five-year appointment but don’t have to manage anyone. And your work could stave off an alien invasion of Earth or, more important, protect other planets from us. President […]

US space agency NASA is opening up an opportunity where eclipse viewers around the country can participate in a nation-wide science experiment by collecting cloud and temperature data from their phones. The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment, or GLOBE, Program is a NASA-supported research and education program that encourages students and citizen scientists to collect and analyze environmental observations. GLOBE Observer is a free, easy-to-use app that […]

An Indian boy from Class 12 has developed what scientists call the lightest satellite in the world. 18-year-old Rifath Sharoo from Chennai, built the satellite as part of a contest Cubes in Space, organised by US space agency, NASA and idoodlelearning Inc, a global education company.. The satellite, named Kalam SAT – after former India President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam – weighs 0.1 kg, and is lighter than a smart […]

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its first ever dive through the gap between planet Saturn and its rings on April 26, going where no ship has gone before and beginning its Grand Finale. Now, NASA has released a new video taken by the spacecraft as it swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between the planet and its rings As Cassini make its first plunge through the […]

American space agency NASA has used a detailed 3D visualization to show the world how carbon dioxide swirls around the Earth’s atmosphere. Combining data from its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite with a project from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA has managed to chronicle the movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) from September 2014 to September 2015. The visualization shows information about global […]

Cameras outside the International Space Station (ISS) have captured new views of Hurricane Nicole on Octover 13 at 1:40 p.m. EDT as the storm passed directly over Bermuda, packing winds of 120 miles an hour. The US space agency NASA released the following video captured from an altitude of 252 miles, showing Nicole passing over Bermuda. Hurricane Nicole made a direct hit on Bermuda Thursday as the strongest hurricane to […]

What if we tell you that now it’s possible for you to enjoy the ethereal and extraordinary experience of space travel without leaving our home planet Earth. No, we are not joking. This’s happening for real!   NASA in collaboration with IMAX and director Toni Myers made a documentary, ‘A Beautiful Earth’ to give us a stunning view of our magnificent blue planet.   The documentary is set to release […]

The US space agency NASA has released a stunning, yet first-ever video model of the Sun showing how its magnetic field behaves. According to scientists, the Sun’s magnetic field is responsible for everything from the solar explosions that cause space weather on the Earth — such as auroras — to the interplanetary magnetic field and radiation through which our spacecraft journeying around the solar system must travel. The video displays […]

Moshe Kai Cavalin has two college degrees, but he’s too young to vote. He flies airplanes, but he’s too young to drive a car alone. Life is filled with contrasts for Cavalin, a 17-year-old from San Gabriel, California, who has dashed by major milestones as his age seems to lag behind. He graduated from community college at age 11. Four years later, he had a bachelor’s in math from the […]

NASA is known to make various discoveries, but this is one discovery that happened in the most unlikeliest of places – the deserts of Kazakhstan. The International Space Station has released satellite images of some 8000-year-old ancient settlements in the desert of Kazakhstan. The photos have sparked new interest in the archaeological sites and could lead to new discoveries regarding the purpose of these prehistoric configurations. The feat comes in […]