Prepare to have your breath taken away. A beautiful new timelapse image of the Earth, taken in a single shot by Russia’s latest weather satellite Electro-L, has captivated web surfers around the world. The magnificent images are a combination of visible and near-infrared wavelengths, depicting the Earth in a way not visible to the human [...]

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While this video is clearly a blatant marketing ploy, it’s still pretty damned cool. These guys took an Apple iPad, sent it up into space via a weather balloon, then dropped it. It took a licking and kept on ticking, landing in Nevada near Area 51. Sure, it’s a lot like what these guys did [...]

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Wow, the news from astronomers just seems to get more and more exciting with each passing day. Two newly-discovered, distant planets orbiting a star 950 light-years from our own planet Earth are the smallest alien worlds yet found, astronomers announced yesterday. One of the two planets is actually smaller than Earth. These planets are orbiting [...]

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Something big is about to happen right at the center of our own galaxy. The normally tranquil region surrounding the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is being breached by a giant gas cloud that is destined to be ripped, shredded, and devoured. Many galaxies have a massive black hole at [...]

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On November 18, 2011, Natural Light officially became the first beer in space. Two Natural Light Facebook fans, Danny and Rich, came up with an epic idea to make Natty Light the first beer in space. Natty Light helped make their dream a reality, by offering to support their efforts on Natty’s Facebook page. On [...]

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What is it like to circle the Earth? Every 90 minutes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station get to do just that. Recently, crew members took a series of light-sensitive videos looking down on Earth at night that have been digitally melded to produce the above time-lapse video. Many wonders of the land and sky [...]

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Strange things are happening near the International Space Station once again. Startling footage has just emerged that was shot this week by ISS cameras. In the video clip above, the station seems to track a UFO moving off in the distance (from the bottom of the screen toward the top). Then, just as the object [...]

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A NASA spacecraft currently in orbit around the asteroid Vesta is uncovering some amazing new details about the huge space rock, including a gigantic mountain that’s taller than our own Mt. Everest. NASA’s Dawn probe has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta since mid-July, when it arrived in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. [...]

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