Major Tom. This is an empty space suit released... into orbit. On February 3, 2006, astronauts from Expedition 12 pushed an old Russian space suit away from the International Space Station. The suit was fitted with radio equipment and turned into a tiny satellite called SuitSat. As it drifted through space, it broadcast signals for a short time before the equipment failed. From Earth, it looked eerily like a floating human figure, silently moving through the darkness of orbit. For months, this lifeless suit circled our planet no astronaut inside, no control, just a hollow reminder of human presence in space until atmospheric drag finally pulled it back down. Some called him Major Tom, when ground control had the last message…show more

The widely anticipated launch of the SpaceX/NASA Crew-10 mission... from the Kennedy Space Center has been scrubbed in the last minutes before launch due to a hydraulics issue with the ground equipment. The mission was set to finally allow the return of two astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams. The two astronauts have been in space at the International Space Station (ISS) for more than nine months after Boeing’s Starliner was deemed too unsafe to bring them home due to issues with the thrusters and was returned to Earth uncrewed. The next launch window will likely be tomorrow, with the astronauts returning home Friday hopefully.show more

Did you know the James Webb Space Telescope isn’t... orbiting Earth at all? The James Webb Space Telescope operates near the Sun–Earth L2 point, about 1.5 million km from Earth. From there, the Sun, Earth, and Moon stay on the same side of the telescope, allowing its giant sunshield to block their heat and light at the same time. That keeps Webb cold and stable enough to detect extremely faint infrared signals from deep space. Because of this, Webb can peer through clouds of cosmic dust and observe galaxies whose light has traveled for more than 13 billion years. Every image it captures is not just a view across space, but a look back into the early history of the universe.show more

Last week we wrapped up our training at SpaceX... - Crew-12 is certified for flight and ready to go to the International Space Station! We’ve now entered quarantine and are prepping our families and logistics. We’re L-13 days from launch at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center! It has truly been an honor to work with this team - I love it when a plan comes together! Photos courtesy of SpaceXshow more

🎨 SEEDANCE 2 🎨 Zero-G Physics & Volumetric Lighting.... 📉✨ This sequence from Seedance 2.0 shows how far we’ve come in simulating complex environments. Look at the way the light from the sun glints off the solar panels as they break apart. Prompt : A female astronaut in a white EVA suit sprints across the outer ring of a damaged orbital station above Earth. The station slowly rotates while massive solar panels break apart and drift into space. At the 2-second mark she jumps from the rotating ring toward a drifting cargo module. Camera floats beside her as Earth spins in the background. She grabs a handle, swings through the airlock hatch, and seals the door just as debris slams into the station behind her. Orbital debris field, zero-gravity leap, rotating space station exterior run, cinematic space lighting, 4K. Made in Pixio AIshow more

Most of us grew up seeing simplified diagrams of... the Hubble Space Telescope and assumed the James Webb Space Telescope follows a similar path around Earth. In reality, it operates in a very different region of space. It is not orbiting our planet in the traditional sense but instead travels around a point about 1.5 million kilometers away known as the Sun–Earth L2 point, keeping pace with Earth as both move around the Sun. This location is often described as a gravitational balance point, but it is not truly stable or neutral. JWST does not sit still there; it follows a controlled orbit around L2 and requires periodic adjustments to stay on course. The result is a delicate, engineered dance between gravity and motion, where the telescope remains aligned with Earth while staying far from its heat and light, allowing it to observe the universe with extraordinary clarity.show more

On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe descending through... Titan’s atmosphere revealed one of the rarest views in space exploration. From Saturn’s moon Titan, Earth and the Moon crossed in front of the Sun as tiny shadows nearly a billion miles away. What makes it even more incredible is how rare the alignment was. A perfectly central Earth and Moon transit from Saturn’s system happens only about twice every 1,000 years. From that distance, our entire planet looked small enough to disappear into the sunlight.show more

A dramatic moment captures a space rock striking the... Moon’s surface, creating a powerful and sudden impact. The object hits at incredible speed, producing a brief flash and disturbing the lunar surface. With no atmosphere to slow it down, the Moon is constantly exposed to impacts from space rocks, which have shaped its cratered landscape over billions of years. Events like this are happening all the time, but capturing one clearly is rare. This moment gives a glimpse into the dynamic nature of space and how even the Moon continues to change. A brief impact, but a powerful reminder of cosmic activity. #nasa #space #spacexshow more

A dramatic moment captures a space rock striking the... Moon’s surface, creating a powerful and sudden impact. The object hits at incredible speed, producing a brief flash and disturbing the lunar surface. With no atmosphere to slow it down, the Moon is constantly exposed to impacts from space rocks, which have shaped its cratered landscape over billions of years. Events like this are happening all the time, but capturing one clearly is rare. This moment gives a glimpse into the dynamic nature of space and how even the Moon continues to change. A brief impact, but a powerful reminder of cosmic activity. #nasa #space #spacexshow more

On April 26th, 2026, the Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8... satellite captured a full day of Earth. Every ten minutes, for twenty-four hours, it photographed a complete hemisphere of the planet. One hundred forty-four individual photographs. No editing for content. No compositing. No CGI. No green screen. No hologram. No drawings. These are photographs, assembled into video. Himawari-8 is a geostationary weather satellite operated by Japan. It orbits at roughly twenty-two thousand miles above the equator, remaining fixed over one spot on the planet, orbiting at the same rate Earth rotates. It was launched in 2014. It takes photographs of Earth in visible light and infrared. It does this every ten minutes, every single day, year after year. These images are available to the public. Meteorologists worldwide use them for weather forecasting. News organizations use them. Scientists use them. You can access them yourself right now. What you're seeing over that twenty-four hour period is the terminator line moving -- the day-night boundary shifting as the planet's rotation carries different regions into and out of sunlight, all viewed from a fixed point in space. It is not a composite. It is not a trick. The curvature you see is not distortion. It is not perspective compression. It is the actual shape of the Earth as photographed by an independent satellite operated by a nation with no interest in perpetuating a NASA conspiracy. This is what Earth looks like from space. This is the globe holding atmosphere in place with gravity as you witness weather patterns moving across its surface. This is reality. (No fisheye lens was harmed in the making of this video.)show more

Earth + Theia = MOON Once upon a time... — about 4.5 billion years ago — Earth wasn't alone. A rogue planet, Theia, nearly the size of Mars, smashed into it at full speed. The result? A fiery collision that could have created the Moon in just a FEW HOURS, not the millennia previously thought. NASA supercomputer simulations show that the Moon wasn't pieced together from space debris, but was instantly born from molten fragments of Earth and Theia thrown into orbit. That's why the Moon is so similar to Earth — it's not just a satellite, it's a sister.show more

While you slept last night, completely motionless in your... bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.show more

🇺🇸🇨🇳 The U.S. and China are rehearsing space combat,... and neither side is saying it out loud. 36,000km above Earth, a U.S. satellite travelling at 10,900 km/h adjusts its orbit and closes in on 2 Chinese satellites until the 3 are almost moving in sync. It passes within 12km. What looks like a gentle dance could be a rehearsal for war. China's military textbooks map out exactly what comes next: deterrence, space blockade, offensive strikes. At a certain rung of the ladder, nothing is off limits: attacks on nuclear sites and energy infrastructure on Earth, launched from orbit, at extremely short notice. Nobody has ever fought a war up there, and nobody knows where the lines are. Source: Financial Timesshow more

🚨 Starship Spinning Out of Control—Impact Point Unknown SpaceX’s... Starship is spiraling wildly out of control in orbit, and right now, it’s anyone’s guess where this damn thing is going to land. Originally planned to splash down in the Indian Ocean, the vehicle has lost attitude control, meaning it can’t orient itself for a safe reentry. And let’s be blunt—without control, this is a 150-foot, multi-ton steel missile just tumbling through space. They hope it hits the ocean. But "hope" isn’t a guidance system. This is no longer a precision landing. It's a high-stakes cosmic dice roll with Earth as the board. Stay tuned. Shit just got real.show more

Kedarnath is a tremendous space. The utterance of the... sound “Shiva” attains a completely new dimension and significance in Kedar. It is a space which has been specially prepared for this particular sound. When we utter the word “Shiva,” it is the freedom of the uncreated, the liberation of one who is not created. It is almost like on this planet, the sound “Shiva” emanates from this place. For thousands of years, people have experienced that space as a reverberation of that sound. This is also a place that has witnessed thousands of Yogis and mystics of every kind. When I say every kind, you cannot imagine those kinds. These are people who made no attempt to teach anything to anyone. Their way of making an offering to the world was by leaving their energies, their path, their work – everything – in a certain way in these spaces.show more

Once you return from space, your body discovers that... Earth is no longer as intuitive as it once was. After weeks in microgravity, it has become remarkably efficient at living in an environment where up and down are merely suggestions. Reacquainting it with gravity takes time. Post-flight rehabilitation is a carefully designed program tailored to each astronaut, gradually increasing the intensity and complexity of exercises to retrain balance, coordination, strength, and endurance. The objective is simple: keep challenging the body until Earth feels natural again. At times, I was convinced that my instructor, Emiliano Ventura , had made it his personal mission to find new and creative ways to make me fall. But that is how you learn. By falling. Whether after a space mission or in life. #shux #space #shubhanshushukla #india #axiom4show more

The Steve Rogers teaser was filmed after he already... met Doctor Doom. Here is why? — The teaser shows Steve at a peggy's house older, holding his baby. Living the life he always wanted. — Everyone assumed it was showing us the beginning of his Doomsday story. — But the CinemaCon trailer just confirmed something Steve appears in Doomsday in civilian clothes. No suit. No shield. — So here is the question if Steve is in civilian clothes during the main film, when exactly does he suit up? — Theory the teaser isn't the beginning of Steve's story. It's the middle of it. — Steve has already encountered Doom by the time that teaser was filmed. — Something happened. Bad enough that he left his family and came back. — And he came back for one thing the suit. — A man who chose peace for the first time in his life doesn't walk back into a war without a reason. — Doom gave him that reason. — The civilian clothes in the CinemaCon trailer are a timeline marker. — Before the suit Steve is just a man processing what Doom showed him. — After the suit the MCU gets something it hasn't seen since 2019. — The teaser wasn't an introduction. — It was the calm before Steve made his decision.show more

The next frontier in AI video isn't better motion... - it's better perspective. What used to require a full production setup, camera rig, location scout, multi-shot choreography - now starts with a single image inside Comfy. Creator seungho__yeo ( IG ) used Hyper POV + Seedance 2 to build a complete cinematic space traversal from one still frame: → Aggressive first-person orbit through the full environment → Fly-through movement that inhabits the space, not just records it → Motion blur and single-take continuity that holds the cinematic feel end to end → No cuts. No rig. One image as the source of truth. This is what perspective design looks like at the new baseline.show more

🚨 LIVE 𝕏 SPACE - FMR CONGRESSMAN GEORGE SANTOS... — FROM CONGRESS TO CUFFS Tomorrow, April 25 at 6PM ET — buckle up for an unfiltered 𝕏 Space with Former Rep. George Santos, as he stares down the barrel of a likely multi-year prison sentence. What really went down behind closed doors? Scandals. Secrets. And the story no one else will tell. Cohosts: 𝘾𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖 & All Source News This isn’t just another political space. It’s a front-row seat to lawfare in real time. Don’t miss it.show more