Forget the often-disappointing Perseids meteor shower – Geminids is not only better, it’s predicted to be especially cool this weekend. The Geminids shower has been strengthening in recent years and already surpasses every meteor shower of the year. This year, we’re holding out hope that the show is even better than last year’s brilliant display.
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Top-secret X-37B lands after mysterious object falls from sky, loud booms heard, debris detected on radar.
A series of mysterious events last week have some wondering if the top-secret X-37B spacecraft is up to something highly unusual. The X-37B launched into space on December 11, 2012 and remained there for nearly two years. And then it didn’t land. Suddenly, a series of unusual events occurred including mysterious “tiles” falling from the…
Cool science pictures that make you go “huh?”
No longer will our space program be an embarrassment to our country
How big is space? New facts from NASA about the El Gordo galaxy cluster blow our mind.
No longer will North Korea’s space program be an embarrassment
Voyager 1 becomes first spacecraft to leave our solar system
Computer generated simulation provides stunning visualization of the half million pieces of “space junk” orbiting Earth
95% of the objects in this computer generated simulation of low-Earth orbit objects is “orbital debris”, not satellites. “Space junk” consist of everything from spent rocket stages, lost equipment and defunct satellites to erosion, explosion and collision fragments. NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth (“tens of millions”…
So what would it really take to build and inhabit a space colony? Here’s what it takes to colonize space.
Most geeks have fantasized about living in a space colony. What would it be like? Would you grow bored? What would you eat, where would you sleep, what would living in such close quarters with fellow colonists be like? Even NASA has pondered space colonization and in fact, it’s likely their ultimate goal.








