Expedition 40 crew to watch World Cup while on board International Space Station

(Photo Credit: NASATV/ESA)

As football fans around the world prepare to tune in to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a few fans who are out of this world will be watching too, and they created a special video message for the ocassion. 

Earth and moon 60 million years older than first thought

(Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

A new study shows that the creation of the Earth and Moon happened around 60 million years earlier than previously thought.

Fault behind failure of Russian Proton rocket revealed

(A Proton Rocket – Photo Credit: Roscosmos)

The chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Oleg Ostapenko, has confirmed that the crash of the Proton space rocket on May 16th was due to a failed bearing in the steering engine’s turbo pump.

Neil deGrasse Tyson challenged to debate over Pluto

(Pluto and three of its Moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra – Photo Credit: NASA)

Alan Stern, the principal investigator of NASA’s $728 million New Horizons mission to Pluto, has challenged famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to a debate over Pluto’s planetary standing.

Image of the Day: 11/6/14

(Photo Credit: Reid Wiseman/NASA)

Here is Taiwan, as seen by Reid Wiseman from the International Space Station, during nighttime.

The city lights are so bright that they are even visible through thick patches of clouds.

Reid later posted another spectacular night-time photograph showing Western USA.

LA/San Diego is visible in the lower right, with Las Vegas in the center and Phoenix in the top right.

For more amazing pictures like this, you can follow Reid, and his fellow Expedition 40 crewmates, Alexander Gerst and Maxim Suraev on Twitter.