Disney’s New Star Wars Western Is A Huge Success. Here’s Why… (Warning: Possible Spoilers Ahead) Well, Star Wars fans, we’re a little over halfway through the season of the much-hyped Disney Plus series, “The Mandalorian.” So far, reviews from critics...
After Weather Delays Yesterday, Blue Origin Gets Its New Shepard Rocket Off The Ground. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has been reaching for the stars longer than SpaceX has. Yet, SpaceX gets most of the press when it comes to new...
Here’s What Happens When Engineers Decide to Blow Up Its New Space Launch System (SLS) Progress and greatness often demand sacrifice. Sometimes, in order to create something beautiful, one must destroy it first. Still, I personally burst into tears every...
Bezos and Co Will Have to Wait At Least Another Day for the Latest Blue Origin Launch Several months have passed since the last time we saw a Blue Origin launch. That dry spell was supposed to end today. Unfortunately...
The Controversial and Expensive Space Launch System is One Step Closer to Taking Americans Back to the Moon. Senator Richard Shelby’s (R- Alabama) pet project—a ridiculously large and expensive rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS)—got all kinds of attention...
These Elephant Seals Will Help NASA to Better Understand Climate Change Elephant seals Wearing The Latest Fashion For Science! No, this seal isn’t under a delusion that it’s a unicorn. And it’s not putting on a fashion show for its...
Researchers Find That Zero Gravity Conditions Kill Cancer Cells A research team in Australia found that in their study 80% of cancer cells died in zero gravity. Now they’ll send the cells responsible for the plague of this era into...
Astrophysicists Scramble To Figure Out The Absence of Dark Matter In Nineteen Newly-Discovered Dwarf Galaxies. Studying dark matter is a tricky business. Those familiar with astronomy and the techniques used to determine what we know can tell you that there’s...
More And More Of Us Are Cutting The Cord These Days, But How’s A Space Fan Supposed To Choose A Streaming Service? We live in the golden age of television. Or so they say. Regardless of the truth of that...
Don’t Worry, Astronauts… Help Is On Its Way… Err, Space Mice and Beer Experiments Anyway. If Benjamin Franklin was right when he said, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” then there should now...
An Amateur Astronomer Helps NASA Locate the Ill-Fated Vikram Lander Ever since the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched Chandrayaan 2 back in July, the world of space geeks (we know who we are) has been paying attention. Chandrayaan 2...
The Latest In A Long Series Of Delays For The Embattled Boeing Starliner Spacecraft. It appears NASA will have to wait just a bit longer to see if the Boeing Starliner spacecraft can get off the ground and dock with...
Fireballs Like This Are Extremely Rare—In Fact, Only Two Have Ever Been Recorded What originally looked like a meteor explosion in the skies over Australia might have been a much more rare event. Back in August of 2016 a fireball...
With An Insane Deadline Just Four Years Away, NASA Officials Comb Through Old Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Data for Possible Landing Sites. Interest in the Moon has waxed and waned over the last decade or so. Under the George W. Bush...
This Black Hole Is So Massive It’s Theoretically Impossible. Yet There It Is. If the bumble-bee allusion in the title eludes you, there’s a common myth that a bumble-bee’s wings are simply too small to allow it to fly, yet...
Doctors Successfully Place A Human in Suspended Animation for the First Time Ever! Despite their intentions, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have opened a Pandora’s box, of sorts. Dr. Samuel Tisherman says that his team there...
The View and the Food May Be Different, but Astronauts on the ISS Still Find Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving in Space. The astronauts aboard the ISS are used to eating space food. After all, every kilogram we send into orbit...
After Months of Silence, India Finally Acknowledges the Chandrayaan 2 Vikram Lander Crashed into the Lunar Surface. India, it seems, is finally ready to admit what many of us have suspected all along. The Vikram Lander did indeed crash on...
The Super Guppy Brings the Artemis 1 Mission Spacecraft to Final Testing Grounds One certainly understands why NASA’s giant transport aircraft is named after a fish. Beyond that, though, the bulbous Super Guppy manages to be both retro and futuristic...
A Trip to the ISS Could Cost 39% More on a Boeing Starliner Than on a SpaceX Crew Dragon. Two weeks ago, the NASA Inspector General reported that Boeing received an extra $287.2 million for the CST-100 Starliner program. Both...
Toxic Smoke, Burning Chunks of Metal, and Other Debris Fell on a Village Downrange of the Long March 3B Chinese Rocket Launch This Weekend Last week we reported about the break-neck tempo of Chinese rocket launches. In fact, in the...
In a Not-Quite-Sneaky Move, China Used NASA’s Juno Spacecraft to Test Its Ground-Based Deep Space Communication Network – Without Telling Us. Isaac Newton is often quoted as saying “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders...
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