Rare View: Space Station Crosses the Moon A rare and amazing moment the International Space Station (ISS) was captured passing in front of the Moon.The ISS travels around Earth at nearly 28,000 km/h, so the flyby lasts only a split second. Inside this fast-moving station, astronauts are living, working, and exploring the secrets of space. #space #SpaceX #NASA #fblifestyle | Cosmic Adventure

This once-overlooked invention from the 1800s was crucial in getting astronauts to the Moon 🌕 Follow us behind the scenes in the Ri Archives as Katy uncovers the history of the Grove voltaic cell. | Royal Institution of Great Britain

Explosions on the surface of the sun, known as solar flares, can have an impact on life and technology on Earth and experts say the sun is now in its most active period in two decades. Bill Murtagh is the program coordinator for the NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center and described the sun as one big magnet with a north and south pole-- it also has negative and a positive polarity. Over the course of 11 years, the sun does a rotation of that polarity. "The sun is a big ball of electrically ch