Space Odyssey

Forever bound Earth and Sun make their way amid the dust lanes and luminous highways of the Milky Way The heat of hot plasma shimmers against the blues and greens of a living planet One a roiling gaseous star infused with thermonuclear energy The other a cool watery ball of silicon and iron When we gaze upon the Sun we glimpse Earths fiery birth within the limitless sweep of cosmic time

This is the age of the Mega Fire With more people living on Earth than ever before we are seeing catastrophic blazes harrowing droughts and devastating deforestation Are these the products of man or are they all part of the Earths natural rhythm

Heat generated in the Suns core is released in towers of hot electrified gas called plasma that break the surface Looping magnetic fields break the surface too When they snap they can release powerful highspeed waves of gas a billion tons of plasma racing out into space

Experience some of the most astonishingly beautiful images captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station The gentle curvature of mother Earth frames the glimmering lights of cities dancing aurorae and the universe zipping around a planet in motion

Revel in some of the highest resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope Experience anew the detail in these inspiring images snatched from distant galaxies exploding stars brilliant gas clouds and black holes

There is a strand in contemporary astronomy that aims to survey and map the universe on larger and larger scales going all the way back to the beginning of time In this video Josh Frieman Director of the Dark Energy Survey and Astrophysics Professor at the University of Chicago describes the promise these projects hold for understanding the hidden dynamic of the cosmos including the identity and

The ebb and flow of Earths environmental systems have been captured in a series of ground breaking computer simulations and satellite data visualizations

Scientists using the NASAESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter that show the continuing changes in its famous Great Red Spot The images also reveal a rare wave structure in the planets atmosphere that has not been seen for decades

For decades planetary scientists have suspected that ancient Mars was a much warmer wetter environment than it is today but estimates of just how much water Mars has lost since its formation vary widely

Inspired by John Miltons description of the galaxy A broad and ample road whose dust is gold and pavement stars as stars to thee appear seen in the galaxy that milky way which nightly as a circling zone thou seest powderd with stars

Dive into the Sun to find out what causes it to erupt in fury This video features a groundbreaking supercomputer simulation that recreates the flow of hot plasma deep inside the Sun

To the naked eye our sun is an unremarkable ball of heat and light Under the eye of the Solar Dynamics Observatory the sun is a seething maelstrom of magnetic phenomena coronal mass ejections sunspots and solar flares

Fly out to the International Space Station the single largest collaborative engineering project ever undertaken Brimming with experiments and life support systems the International Space Station flies around the Earth every 92 minutes and 39 seconds A crew of six astronauts fills its days producing science testing new technologies and exploring the kaleidoscopic world below Their mission to learn

Here is the full cycle of the Super Blood Moon eclipse of September 2015 This rare alignment of the Sun Moon and Earth wont happen again until 2033 so sit back and marvel at the beauty of our celestial companion

Mars is a world long imbued with possibilities From the writer HG Wells to modern day Astrobiologists we have long wondered what creatures may have emerged on the Red Planet

Scientists are out flying over Greenland drilling into its ice and monitoring it from space The reason is that they see it as a bellwether of future Earth