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The Planetary Society's Science and Technology Coordinator (also it's ace blogger) ventured south on February 4 to deliver her first ever T Minus 5...

This week we talk about possible methods of interstellar communications, supermassive black holes eating asteroids, a stratospheric skydive, reachi...

The PW-Sat - the first Polish satellite Official Video.

(Credits: Paweł Sańczyk, PW-Sat)

Data from a previous NASA planetary mission, Galileo, have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water just beneath t...

Europa's surface records a complex history of geologic activity including fracture systems driven by tidal stress, which varies daily as Europa exe...

SETI Talks archive: http://seti.org/talks

Observations of Titan's polar regions reveal hydrocarbon lakes with morphologies and scales similar to t...

Virtual Star Party for Jan. 31st, 2012. This was our best hangout yet, with 4 telescopes streaming into the Hangout at the same time. Over the cour...

Mars gets closer and two comets delight viewers.

This is a live recording of Astronomy Cast done as a Google+ Hangout on Air.

This is going to be one of the "how we know what we know" kind of sho...

SETI Talks archive: http://seti.org/talks

In this talk, Dr. Laraunce Doyle talks about how he led the Kepler team that discovered the Kepler-16b c...

A view from mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the GRAIL-A spacecraft was captured into lunar orbit on December 31, 2011. The ...

A look back at an exciting year of exploration.

Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are on display this month. There's the Quadrantid meteor shower on the 4th plus a telescopic challenge - asteroid E...

This is a Google+ Hangout we did to discuss the announcement of Earth-sized planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. Moderated by Fraser Cain f...

What's Up for December: a mission recap and lots of planets to view.

A rocket hobbyist builds a WAC Corporal replica to honor aeronautics pioneer Frank Malina.

Atlas V roars off the launch pad sending NASA's next Mars rover toward the Red Planet.

Engineers put the rover through thousands of hours of testing. They did drop tests; pull tests; drive tests; load tests, and many other tests to g...

Every magnet generates a magnetic field, and several objects in our solar system generate their own magnetic fields. The Sun, Earth, Mercury, Jupit...

NASA's Curiosity is the biggest robot explorer ever to rove Mars. How do you power something like that?

How many moons can you see this month? Jupiter's moons, our moon, and a few others are on display.

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Mil...

Take a look at the last 48 hours seen by the HMI instrument on SDO. The new active region 1302 (upper left) is coming around the eastern limb of th...

Enjoy a tour of lunar landing sites as the NASA's Grail Mission launches to the moon this month.

Could there be flowing water on Mars?

Mysterious features on slopes hint there could be water flows on Mars.

The STS-135 crew gets moving on Flight Day 9 with "Run the World (Girls)" after being awakened by a special greeting from songstress Beyonce Knowles.

SETI Talks archive: http://seti.org/talks

Access to suborbital space, the realm above 100 km altitude, by vehicles not traveling fast enough to go...

This month you can learn about asteroids, and see Vesta, as the Dawn spacecraft closes in.

On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). The large cloud of particles mu...

Students Get Inspired About Mars!

The Imagine Mars Project gives students a chance to work with scientists and engineers to build and design a futu...

A rare shutdown of the Diamond Light Source allows us to look deep inside the giant synchrotron.

Solar scientist Chris Davis chooses his ten favourite images of our star. Chris works on the STEREO mission, but has chosen a variety of personal a...

Babak Sanii provides a sneak preview of Berkeley Lab's next Science at the Theater Event: Big Thinking: The Power of Nanoscience. Berkeley Lab scie...

This video shows the scientists' best guess to date of what the surface of the protoplanet Vesta might look like.

This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curi...

Where no spacecraft has gone before.

After 33 years, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are still going strong and still sending home information. This...

Anatoxin-a is also known as Very Fast Death Factor. it is found in some forms of cyanobacteria (better known as blue green algae). More videos at h...