captured by a traffic cam on 21/11/2009 in South Africa.. awesome! check out everyone hitting the brakes after the flash…

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Police dash footage of a meteor over Edmonton, Canada. Captured on the evening of November 20, 2008.

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TUCSON, Ariz. — Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. “We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas [...]

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In May this year the EPOXI spacecraft (formerly known as Deep Impact) turned its cameras around from a distance of 50 million km and captured images for several hours. These images, which included the moon passing in front of the Earth have been put together into an awesome animation. Enjoy!

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A recording of the call has been released as part of a police campaign asking people to use 999 appropriately. The Control Room conversation, which took place in May, was recorded – and below is a transcript: Control Room: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?” Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you [...]

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I love this image, it’s awe-inspiring and highlights what our science is capable of… it makes me proud to be part of mankind. NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen parachuting down to Mars, in this image captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is the [...]

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This “smiley face” crater was imaged by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last week. The unnamed crater is about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across. It is located among the Nereidum Montes, north of the Argyre basin, near 45.1°S, 55.0°W. North is toward the right and sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper right. Credit: NASA / [...]

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According to astronomers there is a 1 in 75 chance that an asteroid will slam into Mars on 30 January 2008. The asteroid, called 2007 WD5, was discovered on 20 November by a 1.5 metre telescope near Tucson, Arizona, US, that combs the skies as part of NASA’s efforts to detect asteroids with a chance [...]

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The sharpest ever image of the spiral galaxy M81 was released last week at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. A spiral-shaped system of stars, dust, and gas clouds, the galaxy’s arms wind all the way down into the nucleus. Though the galaxy is located 11.6 million light-years away, the Hubble Space Telescope’s [...]

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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has captured some impressive high definition footage of our nearest neighbor. The images were taken on October 31 by the KAGUYA spacecraft. The image shooting was carried out by the onboard high definition television (HDTV) of the KAGUYA, and it is the world’s first high definition image data acquisition [...]

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Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory in Chile have discovered the most “earth-like” extrasolar planet spotted so far. The planet is in orbit around a red dwarf star called Gliese 581 which is 20 light years away in the direction of the constellation Libra. Initial measurements suggest that the planet, called Gliese 581C, is about [...]

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Star Trek actor George Takei who played helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the USS Enterprise has had an asteroid named after him. The piece of rock formally known as asteroid 1994 GT9 is located somewhere between Mars and Jupiter and was discovered in 1994. It has been renamed as 7307 Takei.

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