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....
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...
WASP-76 Couldn’t Get More Metal! It’s Such a Hot Exoplanet That It Rains Molten Iron! I’m not gonna lie, I’m listening to Iron Maiden as I type this because… well… Metal! Okay, its also because I’m typing a story about...
For Decades, String Theory Dominated the Grand Cosmic Question. But Can M Theory Finally Unify the Five Versions of String Theory Into a Single Cosmic Explanation? Let’s face it, string theory is the Johnny Depp of unifying theories. In the...
One of NASA’s Two Mars Surface Probes Just Found the Martian Magnetic Field is 10 Times Stronger than We Thought. Evidence is mounting that Mars could have supported life at one point. Of course, today, it’s dry, cold, and pretty...
Despite a Year Filled with Triumphs and Near Triumphs, ISRO Budget Cuts May Stall a New Human Spaceflight Program. All evidence points to the idea that Inda really, really wants to be a global power. And it’s certainly within the...
After Discovering Space Station Water Contaminated with Two Strains of Bacteria, Officials Report it Just as Safe as Water on Earth. Any time one finds an unexpected contaminant in something as essential as drinking water little alarms should go off....
Along with Other Government Agencies, NASA Tries “Telework Day” to Test Its Operational Capabilities for a Coronavirus Response Today, March 6th, NASA officials decided to test a telework day for many agency employees. If successful, the test day will provide...
Space Lettuce Is as Nutritious as Earth Lettuce, Study Suggests. Sometime in the next decade or so, NASA astronauts will make their way to Mars. When they do, they’ll most likely have to grow their own food during the long...
This is the Most Critical Year for the Artemis Moon Landing Mission. What Happens in 2020 will Determine What Happens in 2024. Last year Vice President Pence shocked the space community by announcing a new, much closer, deadline for the...
Out with “MARS 2020” and in with “Perseverance”—NASA Finally Reveals the Name of its Newest Mars Rover! Today, NASA officials announced the name of the Rover-Formerly-Known-As-MARS-2020. As is tradition when naming Mars rover, the agency combed through 28,000 K-12 student...
Preliminary Findings Point to Evidence of Extraterrestrial Protein. A team of researchers in Massachusetts claim that they found the first known extraterrestrial protein. Their source? A meteorite that hit Earth three decades ago. Of course, findings are preliminary, and a...
One of NASA’s Most Remarkable Spacecraft Survived an Interstellar Glitch. And Now It’s Back to Collecting Data. In January, a seemingly critical incident threatened to put an end to NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. The legendary spacecraft, part of a set...
