After Delays Earlier This Week, A Suyoz Rocket Blasted Off This Morning With a New European Exoplanet Mission Exoplanets are something of a craze among astronomers these days. Ever since scientists confirmed their existence back in 1992, they’ve have been...
Elon Musk’s Dream of Reusing SpaceX Falcon 9 Rockets is Becoming Reality. Now Let’s See If The Low-Cost Promises Will, Too. Yesterday Elon Musk’s space-tech firm launched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into space and nailed the landing. Again. Despite...
Panspermia Theory on Thin Ice When It Comes to Populating the Outer Reaches of the Solar System You’ll just have to pardon the ice pun in the headline there because we’re talking about Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon. You see, for...
After Three Independent Reviews, Scientists Now Believe That Monster Black Hole Wasn’t as Big as We Thought. The Scientific Method Prevails! I’ll be frank, I make a crappy astronomer. I know enough to break some things down for you guys,...
The First Boeing Starliner Passenger Pays Tribute to Gender Equity Icon No, she’s not Buster. And she’s not any of the other dummies we may wish were being jettisoned into space (particularly the ones in suits who run things). This...
It’s That Time Again! Let’s See What Twitter’s Saying about Space Today’s Top Space Tweets Every so often here on Space Porn we like to take a look at Twitter and see what people are saying about space topics. Here...
We’ve All Seen The Big Red Spot. Now We Can See Seven More Massive Cyclones on Jupiter in the South Pole Region. Juno has proven to be quite the “Little Spacecraft That Could.” A few months ago NASA’s Jupiter-studying probe...
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Coated With Special Material Will Be Less Reflective and Disruptive to Astronomers’ View. It’s not the worst P.R. problem SpaceX has ever had, to be sure, but it is a big deal. The company plans to put...
The Presence of Water Ice Has Major Implications for Colonization Efforts Scientists at NASA found water beneath the surface of Mars. More than that, they say that it’s not even that far down. In fact, according to one researcher, Sylvain...
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...
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...
Europe’s Moondust Factory: How to Make Oxygen on the Moon
