Will The 2020s Deliver Us the Future We Were Promised? I Want My Mandalorian Jet Pack! I was born a year after Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was released in theaters. Childhood, for me, was spent dreaming of...
After Sixteen Years of Faithful Service, NASA’s Ready to Buy Its Spitzer Telescope a Watch and a Cake. For those of you youngins that don’t get the watch and cake reference, once upon a time, people would work at the...
The Space Force (A Division of the U.S. Air Force) Steals Its New Logo from Star Trek. Clearly nobody at the Pentagon or the White House is listening to me. I’m shocked, but I guess I can figure that part...
NASA Posts a New Video of Star Wars Actors Kelly Marie Tran and Naomi Ackie Training with Real Astronauts. I’ll be honest. Star Wars never really made me want to be an astronaut. It made me want to be a space...
The Curiosity Rover Bugs Out and Needs an Attitude Adjustment Okay. So it’s not really that type of attitude adjustment. Nevertheless, NASA’s Curiosity rover—the only working rover we have on Mars—seemed to have a crisis on the existential level. A glitch...
LEGO Releasing an International Space Station Model on February 1st! Calling all Space Nerds! Oh, I’m sorry… Look, if you’re reading a site called Space Porn and you don’t consider yourself a Space Nerd, you’re deluding yourself. You may as well...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has a Moondust Factory that can make Oxygen from Lunar Dust! Europe’s space agency, the ESA, opened up a prototype plant to turn moondust into oxygen. While most of the news about NASA centers on...
Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss—What Colonizing Mars May Actually Look Like Elon Musk took to the Twitterverse on Thursday night, revealing a lot of information about his plans for colonizing Mars. His grand vision: a city...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Aces Its Final Milestone and a Falcon 9 Goes Boom! Watch Saturday’s Critical Safety Test Here. Saturday morning SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule passed its final critical safety test with flying colors. Actually, the capsule passed with exploding...
Engineers Hope for a Big Boom from the Falcon 9 Rocket During Tomorrow’s Crew Dragon Abort Test. Well, folks, we’re nearing a critical moment in human spaceflight. Tomorrow morning, SpaceX and NASA will conduct the final major safety test for...
Space Colonies May Rely on Fungi for Building Materials! So, it’s 2020. By all rights, if you’re my age and you grew up watching Marty McFly, then we’re in “The Future!” [Imagine my best Christopher Lloyd impression on that one]...
China’s Rocket Launches Are Happening at a Break-Neck Tempo. Can the Rest of the World Keep Up? Just over 24 hours after its last “mystery” satellite launch (the first of 2020), China launched another commercial satellite late last night (Wednesday)....
Eight Planet Candidates, Five Exoplanets, Two Super-Earths, One Cold-Neptune… and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. Okay, neither partridges nor pear trees have anything to do with this story. We do, however, have a lot to talk about when it...
Astronauts and Heroes Jessica Meir and Christina Koch Do It Again with the Second All-Female Spacewalk. This morning, despite a slight helmet issue, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed their second spacewalk together. Oh yeah… and that makes it the...
Japanese Billionaire and SpaceX Customer Maezawa Yusaku is Looking for Love (In all the Odd Places) This is just too good to leave alone. Maezawa Yusaku (I type it the Japanese way—family name first; deal with it) is widely known...
After Making History in October with the First All-Female Spacewalk, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are Ready to Head out into the Black Again Tomorrow. According to a tweet from astronaut Jessica Meir, she and fellow astronaut Christina Koch are...
That’s Right, the Space Cookies Baked By ISS Astronauts are Back Home on Earth! This holiday season, the astronauts aboard the ISS prepared a treat for some lucky earth-bound humans. That’s because back in November, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft...
China Launches a Long March 3B with a Mystery Satellite Payload to Kick-Off 2020. China’s space agency launched its first rocket of 2020 last Tuesday (Jan 7th). The payload, however, remains a mystery. In fact, there’s some disagreement between the...
It’s Friday Again! Time for the Top Space Tweets from the Twitterverse. It hasn’t been the busiest week in space news, but there have been some significant developments that are worth mentioning. We’re ready to run down the top five...
In What Could Be Their Final Safety Hurdle, Engineers Plan a Catastrophe for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Abort Test. If you’d have asked SpaceX officials a couple of weeks ago, they’d have said all of this would happen tomorrow. They’d have...
The Future of the Boeing Starliner Is Up in the Air—Even If the Craft Isn’t On December 20th, Boeing attempted to do what SpaceX did last spring. The CST-100 Boeing Starliner capsule launched into space headed for the ISS. Or...
Meet TOI 700 d: The First Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found in a Habitable Zone! Many astronomers these days find themselves in the planet-hunting game. A couple of big reasons for that include a fascination with searching for extraterrestrial life and the...
Hyperdrives, Warp Speed, FTL: Is Light-Speed Possible?
