NASA confirmed that Tom Cruise is going into space to shoot a film aboard the agency’s International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is a space station in low orbit around the Earth. It is a joint project involving NASA along with the Russian, Japanese, Canadian, and European space agencies. NASA spokesperson Jim Bridenstine confirmed on
This week’s Cooper’s Treasure saw Darrell Miklos continue his hunt for an underwater fortune using maps drawn by astronaut Gordon Cooper. He says what we’re all thinking as the episode starts out, admitting: “I may be on one of the craziest treasure hunts in history.” The twist at the beginning of the series last week was that his estranged dad, Roger Miklos,
This week on Space’s Deepest Secrets, how dark energy theories are causing a rethink on Einstein’s theories and a look at what we know about black holes. First up is an episode looking at how dark energy theories are threatening to overturn some of Einstein’s assertions and could help explain the expansion of the universe.
This week NASA’s Unexplained Files looks at why Jupiter is so hot and examines how NASA helped with a murder case that had gone cold. Jupiter lies out past Mars and is the largest planet in our Solar System. This huge gas giant is over twice as big as all the other planets combined. Being
Hubble’s Amazing Journey takes a look at the remarkable discoveries that have been made by the world’s most famous space telescope. Hubble was named after the famous astronomer Edwin Hubble and has given us tantalising images of distant nebulas, astrophysical jets and even exoplanets. However, when it was first launched over 25 years ago the telescope
Mars: The Secret Science takes at look at some of the work being done right now on the technology needed for the first visit to the Red Planet. Spacesuits for a martian mission need to be simpler and easy for Astronauts to use without assistance from Flight Control, the distance means that communication is delayed.
This episode of Doomsday asks what would happen if the Earth was somehow pulled out of its orbit, could we survive? We tend not to think much about the fact we are all living our lives on a huge chunk of rock and iron that is hurtling through space at around 18.5 miles/second as it orbits the
On this episode of NASA’s Unexplained Files – some UK astronomers intercept photos of the moon taken by the USSR, a problem on the ISS could kill the crew and a NASA pictures hints at possibility of life on Mars. A technical malfunction on the ISS leads to NASA advising all the astronauts to don
Tonight NASA’s Unexplained Files looks at a planet fairly close to Earth that could be habitable. Proxima b orbits red dwarf Proxima Centauri, which at 4.25 light-years is the nearest star to our own sun. According to a recent study the planet is within the habitable zone and so could have liquid water on its surface. Proxima b
Tonight on NASA’s Unexplained Files — did future president Jimmy Carter really see a UFO? According to the talking heads on the show in 1969 the soon-to-be Governor of Georgia claimed to have witnessed a sighting of an unidentified object in the sky. Some have speculated that he might have seen a weather balloon but his sightings