The DA14 asteroid (L-type asteroid) will pass within 17,200 (27,700km) of Earth on Friday – record closest ever fly-by. Actually, DA14 will be traveling inside the orbit of Earth’s geosynchronous satellites. The diameter of the DA14 is 50km while it has a mass of 190,000 metric tons. What seems more interesting for us right now is the closest fly-by but what we don’t know about D14... 

Exploring the vast solar system is not an easy task at all. It requires huge dedication and well authenticated information. But a visual representation of solar system is the very easy way to understand the basics. Krystian Majewski has created a spatial representation of every star within 14 light-years of the Sun in orthographic projection making the things easier to understand. There are 32 stars... 

Full Moon Silhouettes by Mark Gee is a real time video of the Moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. The video is nothing less than an eye popping event for the people who want to see Moon rising. People gathered up on the 28th January 2013 night to get the best view possible of the moon rising when Mark Gee captured this stunning video of the Moon rising from 2.1km... 

On Jan. 14, 2005 the European Space Agency’s unmanned Huygens prob landed for first time in history on Saturn’s huge moon Titan. But how it landed? how was the environment? how it touched the surface? – This new video animation will answer all questions in just 1 minute and 40 seconds. This new animation is based on real Huygens data and created by ESA (European Space Agency). You... 

Previous 12 months had many must-see skylights including the rare transit of Venus – the biggest space event in 2012. But what to expect in 2013? Well, the next 12 months are full of sky events too – you may observe them depending on the latitude and longitude of your location. Here is the list of the top 10 events for 2013. 1. Moon/Jupiter Conjunction The first sky-event will be the on... 

This time it wasn’t any space data but a song – “Jewel In The Night” – a song recorded in space at International Space Station by an astronaut named Chris Hadfield. He shared Soundcloud and YouTube video of the song on his Twitter account. You can also listen the ambient noise of the International Space Station. You can listen it on SoundCloud here. Play the song and... 

In 2012, Curiosity Rover was the biggest space success of the year by NASA as it landed safely on the Red Planet. The same will continue in 2013 – NASA will send the second Curiosity Rover mission to the Red Planet. Apart from Curiosity NASA has unveiled an ambitious exploration program for the upcoming year including crew flights and commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station.... 

Moon is a symbol of beauty for the people on Earth and why should not? But we find many useless things over the Moon’s surface such as TV cameras, boots, film magazines, blankets and many more. It is the trash left by numerous space missions. A picture was unveiled in 2011 showing this trash over the surface. There is a photograph of Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke’s family along with a... 

Space being the most silent and peaceful place is ideal to fall asleep but still nearly 50% of crews on different space missions need sleeping pills. Astronauts on International Space Station are likely going to face depression or sickness because of Insomnia. It is something very worrying for NASA forcing it to replace current florescent panel lights with solid-state lighting modules. The $11.2... 

NASA has presented the next generation spacesuit – the Z-1, at the Johnson Space Center. The futuristic Z-1 spacesuit is similar to Buzz Lightyear – a popular character in the famous children film- Toy Story. But ofcourse, its not a toy at all. The new spacesuit is very appealing and designed for the astronauts to travel to new deep-space locations in near future. Here is the picture gallery,...