In June 2013, a group of friends launched a weather balloon a few miles from Tuba City, Arizona. The amazing footage was found two years later by an Arizona Arizona hiker. Enjoy the video of our launch preparations, video footage, and some data analysis of the flight.Max altitude: 98,664 ft (30.1 k...

In the early hours of May 17, 2011 a beautiful filament erupted from the Sun and sent a cloud of plasma into space. This Coronal Mass Ejection was not aimed at Earth but most likely will interact with Earth's magnetic field two days later, creating some of these beautiful auroras. The second segment...

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Is...

Update on the contest: March of 2012, both the regional and global winners will be announced. Regional winners will include six contestants from each region from both the 14-16 age bracket and the 17-18 age bracket. That’s 36 regional winners, if my math’s up to snuff. Prizes for regional winners w

Welcome to Space! This presentation includes 14 space tourism travel posters which were created by artists working with scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of its "Visions of the Future" series.

The robot lander Philae has sent back to Earth the first image taken on the surface of a comet more than 500 million kilometers away.

NASA is confirming divers from The History Channel have discovered a large pieces of debris on the ocean floor that came from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 36 years ago.

The BFR will be capable of taking people from any city to any other city on Earth in under one hour. Elon Musk laid out a set of ambitious plans on Thursday for a vehicle he has dubbed the Big Fucking Rocket (BFR). The massive spaceship will not only ferry people around on Earth in minuscule amount...

A look at the James Webb Space Telescope, its mission and the incredible technological challenge this mission presents. The Webb is now in the final stages of testing in the U.S. before being shipped to French Guiana ahead of its expected launch from there at the end of October, 2021.

Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. He stopped by The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert to demonstrate an exciting new sci...