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Solar Eclipse 2012 – Path of Annular Solar Eclipse [MAP]
Click to interact Today, an annular solar eclipse will occur all the way from Thailand, across the pacific, and ending in Texas. Here is a map of the projected path of the eclipse from NASA. This map...
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Robojelly – Robotic Combat Jellyfish Of The Future
Robojelly with uniform bell in water Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on U.S. Navy project dubbed Robojelly to put robot jellyfish in waters around the world. The purpose...
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New Zealand’s Air Force Discovers The Ocean is a Weird-Ass Place
Volcanic pumice floats off the coast of New Zealand. IMAGE: New Zealand Defence Force/EPA While on a routine maritime patrol mission yesterday between Samoa and New Zealand, a Royal New Zealand Air...
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Australian Icebreaker on Sea Ice Expedition is Stuck in the Sea Ice
Australia’s icebreaker Aurora Australis in the sea ice of the Southern Ocean during a 2007 expedition. Photo: Sandra Zicus/Antarctic.gov An Australian icebreaker on a scientific expedition to study...
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These First-Ever Photos of a Giant Squid are Incredible
NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel These are the first ever photos captured of a live giant squid in its natural habitat. The photos are still images taken from video captured back in July 2012 by a team of...
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WATCH – Largest Glacier Calving Ever Captured on Film
On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a...
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Amazon Founder Raises Apollo 11 F-1 Engines from Atlantic Ocean
A piece of an Apollo 11 F-1 engine found on the Atlantic Ocean floor by Bezos Expeditions. Photo courtesy Bezos Expeditions On July 16, 1969, the world watched as the historic Apollo 11 mission took...
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Ship Photos of The Day – Fishing for the SpaceX Dragon
Preparing to detach. Photo: SpaceX On Tuesday, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule detached from the International Space Station at 3:56am PT and splashed down safely almost 6 hours later about 200 miles off the...
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James Cameron Donates His Deepsea Challenger Sub to Woods Hole
Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron emerges from the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the...
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Can The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Clean Itself?
Slat’s concept is based on a simple trolling system, only on a very large scale. Ocean currents will provide all the energy needed to troll the gyres free of garbage. We’ve heard it before; the Great...
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RV Arcticus – The Great Lakes Newest Research Vessel Delivered
The U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center says it has taken delivery of its newest research vessel and the vessel will be put to work immediately carrying our lake trout spawning surveys...
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New Satellite Data Reveals Major Uptick in Global Maritime Traffic
Global shipping routes crisscross the world’s oceans in this map of shipping lanes derived from a 2008 study of the human impact on marine ecosystems. Credit: Grolltech Maritime traffic on the world’s...
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Nightmarish Black Seadevil Caught on Video
Photo credit: MBARI Researchers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have captured what is being called the best-ever footage of the elusive and nightmarish-looking Black Seadevil....
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Louisiana Shipyard Building Drone Landing Ship for SpaceX Rocket
The so-called “autonomous spaceport drone ship” under construction at a Louisiana shipyard. Photo credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX via Twitter Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed that his SpaceX space...
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SpaceX Rocket Makes Hard Landing Aboard ‘Drone Spaceport Ship’
The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX, on a cargo resupply service mission to the International Space Station, lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida...
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Microsoft Billionaire Paul Allen Locates Famous WWII Shipwreck
The Musashi’s starboard anchor, one of two 15-ton anchors carried by the battleship. Photo: PaulAllen.com A team of researchers led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has discovered a long-lost...
View ArticleScientists Geek Out Over Sperm Whale Encounter
A team of scientists aboard the E/V Nautilus got super excited when a large sperm whale decided to check out the ROV Hercules at a depth 598 meters off the coast of Louisiana. Some of their comments...
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Ship of The Week – Space Ships – NASA’s (former) Space Rocket Booster...
NASA’s Liberty Star ship departs Port Canaveral in Florida with an Orion flight test capsule secured to its deck. (NASA/T. Jacobs) Photo courtesy NASA Note: This week’s interesting ships are reposted...
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Stunning VIDEO Of Newly Discovered Deep Sea Creatures
A team of scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer have mounted a unique crowd-sourced exploration of the largely unknown deep sea off the coast of Puerto Rico. The first two legs of their...
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Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered Off North Carolina Coast
Scientific sonar spots unknown shipwreck, possibly dating to the American Revolution The research vessel Atlantis with the submersible Alvin hanging off its stern. Photo Credit: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole...
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