In this 17 minute talk, Carolyn Porco, leader of the Imaging Team on the NASA Cassini Mission, takes us on a beautiful visual journey to the great rings of Saturn and its moons. The talk is conducted at TED, March 2007. This talk mainly focuses ... Read more

Every time a new discovery is made about the universe, it opens up a new box of unanswered questions. One of these boxes is marked dark energy/dark matter. Whenever we look up at the universe at night everything we see, that is all the protons, ... Read more

In 1938 Orson Welles scared the crap out of America when he broadcast H.G.Wells “War Of The Worlds”, sparking a mass panic of fearful proportions amongst the more superstitious and imaginative part of the American population. People were driving around in their rickety old trucks ... Read more

If you visit any one of their websites you will find the very best images for free download. Hubble images, space shuttle launches, Mars imagery. All in full resolution with absolutely no restriction. You can even use their images or video footage in your own ... Read more

In the constellation Eridanus, southwest of Orion something quite peculiar has been found. In this particular part of the universe, 6-10 billion light years away, there is a remarkable drop in the number of galaxies. Astronomers had known there was something different about this spot ... Read more

They say a sense of humor is a sense of perspective. Well, I think Astronomy and Music are up there too. Here is a video that will absolutely expand your perspective beyond its limits! Tony Darnell, from AstronomyBuff.com has created a 6 minute YouTube video ... Read more

Feel the power of the star at the center of our solar system! Real unaltered footage and imagery of our sun from science.nasa.gov. Our sun is one of many billions of stars in the universe. This particular one is special to us though, because it ... Read more