Hubble’s 30th Anniversary Deserves A Grand Celebration—Even If We Have to Do It Virtually… Or later. In 24 days, Hubble’s 30th anniversary will be here. Unfortunately, there won’t be much fanfare out in public to celebrate. People won’t dance in...
The TESS Exoplanet Hunting Mission Provides Astronomical Treasure Once More! NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) just started orbiting Earth recently, but already the TESS exoplanet discoveries have been astounding! In less than two years, the satellite masterpiece has detected...
Stuck At Home? Locked Inside Your Prepper Shelter? You’re Gonna Need Space Entertainment, and We’ve Got Some Thoughts. We’ve looked at a few space-themed movies and series from time to time here on Space Porn. But we haven’t really done...
NASA’s New Cubesat Mission to Help Astronomers Learn About Solar Radiation and Much More. Yesterday NASA announced funding for a brand new cubesat mission! The mission, intended to study solar storms, will use an array of six cubesats. Of course,...
Pending design approval, Branson’s space company said they could start to mass-produce ventilators next month! Though they’re one of the world’s foremost space tech companies, Virgin Orbit doesn’t always get the credit it deserves. Like many other subsidiaries of famous...
Don’t Hold Your Breath, Though… China’s New Spacecraft Won’t Dock With The ISS Any Time Soon… Because: Politics. The Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) posted an image recently of China’s new spacecraft. And it looks a lot like it’d...
They’re Farther Away From Home Than Any Of Us, And As They Look Down on Our Struggles, ISS Astronauts Send Their Love. Let’s face it. The International Space Station may be the safest place for humans right now. Considering that...
Trekkies Rejoice! You Can Stream Star Trek: Picard for Free Right Now Thanks to Patrick Stewart! Last night was the season finale of Star Trek: Picard, the new Star Trek series exclusively available on the CBS All Access streaming service....
In Addition to Telecommuting, NASA is Working on How to Help Other Agencies with the Federal COVID-19 Response. Yesterday, March 25th, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, along with other agency officials, held a virtual town hall. The meeting took place with...
Today the First Atlas V Launches Under the U.S. Space Force Banner. Watch Now! I know I’ve made a thing of it quite a bit on this site, but one can’t hear a whisper in a hurricane. So it goes...
NASA’s InSight Mars Probe Had A Problem, So They Hit it With A Shovel. And It Worked, Of Course. Sometimes you just need a hammer. Fans of Jeremy Clarkson will understand. There are certain problems, which, in life, pop up...
Amid School Closures, Slooh Scientists Stream a Free One-Hour Astronomy Lesson for Kids Stuck at Home. Yesterday at 4:30 pm EDT, astronomers from Slooh hosted a free astronomy lesson for K-12 students stuck at home during the coronavirus outbreak. The...
NASA, National Research Council Approve “Statement of Task” for the Next Decadal Survey One of the most important parts of NASA’s commitment to its science mission directorate is the decadal survey. According to the agency website, “NASA relies on the...
Coronavirus Shut Down Schools and Public Institutions Across the Nation, But These Students Still Finished Their New CubeSat In Time! After eight years of development involving 150 Boston University students, the team responsible for a new CubeSat mission was ready....
Only Mission-Essential Personnel Exempt from NASA-Wide Mandatory Telecommuting Order. Late yesterday, March 17th, NASA announced a mandatory telecommuting order for all agency employees. Of course, mission-essential personnel will still need to be on-site in certain cases. However, for everyone else,...
While Most of the Focus Stays on Artemis and other Large Scale Missions, There are Plenty of Others to Discuss. And Officials Have Selected Four Candidates for the Next Small NASA Missions. Nearly everywhere you look around NASA these days,...
NASA claims Lunar Gateway is not part of its “critical path” to get to the Moon in 2024. That doesn’t mean it’s done, though. The Artemis deadline shakeup last year threw many at NASA into scramble-mode. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine...
China’s Long March 7A Rocket Encountered an Unspecified Failure During its First Launch Mission on Monday. Though it took off, the newest rocket in the Chinese fleet failed to deliver its payload—a classified satellite—to a stable geostationary orbit. China’s Long...
Like Everything Else Extraterrestrial, an Outbreak in Space Could Wreak Havoc on a Whole New Level. Recent events are making officials at nearly every government agency take a look at their emergency procedures. Of course, I refer to the outbreak...
A Smorgasbord of New Minor Planets May Lead Us to the Mysterious Ninth Planet… Sorry, Pluto. Pluto really does seem to be the orphan stepchild of our solar system. Constantly known as last in line. Then, in 2006, stripped of...
Astronomers Looked For Years, Now They’ve Found Their New Lopsided Star! For decades, astrophysicists have looked for a type of star they reasoned to exist, but couldn’t find. Now, they’ve discovered HD74423 (sexy name, I know). The new lopsided star...
Further Study Into the Pulsing Behavior of The North Star, Polaris, Keeps Breaking Astronomical Models and Confounding Astronomers. The common folk often confuse Polaris, aka The North Star, for the brightest star in the sky. Because for centuries humans looked...
139 New Minor Planets Beyond Neptune May Lead Us to Planet Nine!
