Think we have it rough with our Cat 5 hurricanes and F2 or F3 tornadoes, well they are nothing compared to what can be whipped up on the Sun in the blink of an eye. Last week an incredible plasma tornado travelling across the Sun’s surface at speeds estimated to be around 300,000 mile per hour was caught by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite. Not only is the speed mind…

While its landing on Mars is still many months away, NASA is doing everything it can to help keep the Opportunity rover expedition an experience that everyone can enjoy. It is doing this with a free app developed by NASA computer scientist Mark Powell that will send you images taken by Opportunity directly to your phone.

Looking for a new home? Perhaps with a unique view? Then this little bit of real estate news might be right up your alley, especially if you are a space nerd of any kind. It seems the Jamesburg Earth Station; which was built in the 1960′s, has come up for sale for the altogether reasonable price of $3 million.

Those few of you who actually watched, and enjoyed, the short lived Stargate Universe series on SyFy (that should explain why it was short lived) will recognize the similarities between Eli’s floating Kino balls and NASA’s SmartSPHERES currently being tested on the International Space Station. Unlike the Kino’s however the SmartSPHERES are powered in part by earthly means thanks to the use of  Samsung Nexus S handsets. The SPHERES part…

When you hear the term submillimeter your first thought might be that we are going to be talking about some really small object, except in this case, we aren’t. In this case submillimeter refers to the submillimeter waveband between the far-infrared and microwave wavebands in deep space; and more specifically the newly unveiled SCUBA-2 camera that is housed in the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

When NASA first sent the Mars rover Opportunity off on its mission never did they believe that the mission would last the long eight years that it has, or that they would discover as much as they have with the help of the Opportunity and its sister rover, Spirit. The amazing thing is that those discoveries aren’t slowing down in the slightest even as NASA preps for follow-up trips to…