As we continue our ongoing search for alien life, new research could uncover a new way we could be looking! Follow Amy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/astVintageSpace Read More: Nuclear fragments could help uncover the origins of life-supporting planets http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/… “New research describes how recreating isotopes that occur when a star explodes, can help physicists understand where… Read more »

As 2014 comes to a close we look back on a few of the events that took place this year at NASA.

From the movie TimeScapes, by Tom Lowe. Buy it at: http://TimeScapes.org More music at: http://NigelStanford.com

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated… Read more »

NASA Space Sounds – Information about the recordings and sample sounds of the planets, moons and rings of planets in our Solar System. [Note: both Song of Earth and Voice of Earth are man made compositions of the original Earth recordings.] For live 24hr sound from space, see: http://www.radio-astronomy.net/

On March 17, 2014, a group of physicists announced a thrilling discovery: the “smoking gun” data for the idea of an inflationary universe, a clue to the Big Bang. For non-physicists, what does it mean? TED asked Allan Adams to briefly explain the results, in this improvised talk illustrated by Randall Munroe of xkcd. TEDTalks… Read more »

There’s an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and… Read more »

From Christopher Nolan, Interstellar is in theaters November 2014. http://www.InterstellarMovie.com/

Take a look at some of the most distant galaxies Hubble has ever seen, and find out why, when we look at the most distant objects in the universe, we are also seeing the cosmos’ earliest objects. “Hubble’s Universe” is a recurring broadcast from HubbleSite, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. Astrophysicist Frank Summers… Read more »

“Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours. In every one of them, there’s a sucsession of incidence, events, occurences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time.… Read more »