(Source NASA) – Between November 9–11, 2013, a large iceberg finally separated from the calving front of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier.Scientists first detected a rift in the glacier in October 2011 during flights…

UPDATE 11/11/13 – Update from ESA – GOCE has re-entered. The atmospheric interface at ~80 km altitude occurred, following a USSTRATCOM confirmation, at the latest, at 01:16 CET (00:16 UTC)…

(Source – NOAA) A key instrument that will fly on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R  (GOES-R) spacecraft, NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, is cleared for installation on the…

(NASA) This striking aurora image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 24, 2010. The ISS…

(NASA) Early Wednesday morning, at 3:27:20 AM Eastern Time, a piece of an asteroid, about 2 feet in diameter and weighing over 100 pounds, entered Earth’s atmosphere above the Georgia/Tennessee…

The scale of the Rim Fire threatening Yosemite can be seen in these images from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua Satellite. This image was captured on August 22, 2013. As…

Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, as seen by the NASA IMAGE satellite eight days after a giant solar flare. Just a very cool animation of the Aurora over the south…

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this panoramic photo looking northeast from a point half-way along the Aleutian Island chain on August 4th 2013. They were flying east…