Category: Space

Houston. We’ve had a problem

What happens when spacesuits go wrong? Alexei Leonov, 1965 After leaving the Voskhod 2 spacecraft to perform the first ever spacewalk, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov’s suit began to swell due to the pressure difference. Within...

How to detect black holes

Discover the mysterious world of black holes and the projects trying to capture them Black holes are some of the most impressive and strangest astronomical oddities in existence. But, complex as they are, it...

NASA to televise spacewalk

Tune in on August 15th to watch Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev, launch satellites from the International Space Station. The expected six hours spacewalk will be broadcast on NASA Television and the...

Take a look inside the Lagoon Nebula

A new video released by NASA takes you on a journey through the stellar nursery that is the Lagoon nebula.   The images that make up the video were taken by NASA’s Hubble Space...