Long ago, sky watchers linked the brightest stars into patterns reflecting animals, heroes, monsters and even scientific instruments into what is now an official collection of 88 constellations. Now scientists with NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have devised a set of modern constellations constructed from sources in the gamma-ray sky to celebrate the mission’s 10th … >
Despite the incredible images of Mars that the Curiosity Rover has transmitted back to Earth, scientists at Mission Control have remained resolutely po-faced, keeping their excitement contained behind stony visages. But away from the glare of the media, the nerds at NASA like to kick back…
Although the majority of the world’s inhabitants accepted it was a big ball spinning in space many years ago, it’s rare we actually get to see the Earth for the vast, living mass of energy that it is. Still images of the planet are all very well, but, they never capture the sense of its … >