Lots of Asteroid Flybys Lately Underline the Need for Planetary Defense, and a New Space Telescope is Just What the NASA Doctors Ordered. I reported last month about Apophis, a very big asteroid that will come relatively close in a...
New Study Finds Venus Was Primed for Life Before it Turned to Hell A study released Friday by the EuroPlanet Society suggests that Venus may have been habitable for two to three billion years. We’ve known since the 1970s that...
Turns Out the Alien Megastructure Star Isn’t So Rare After All, So No Matter What, We Won’t See Them Aliens Today. Okay, I refuse to write any more about the partygoers down in Nevada for the week. Instead, this afternoon...
Storm Area 51: Today’s the Day We Finally See Them Aliens! Er, Probably Not. Well, the festivals in the Nevada desert this weekend are on and raging. In towns like Rachel and Hiko, alien enthusiasts are gathered to celebrate their...
Jupiter’s Moon Io Created a Gargantuan Shadow on the King of Our Solar System There appeared to be a rather large hole in the rather large planet we call Jupiter this week. No, I’m not talking about the Great Red...
Jupiter Impact Both Not As Cool, and Yet Even Cooler than You Probably Thought. A little over a month ago, an amateur astronomer from Texas called Ethan Chappel spotted a large flash on Jupiter. Thankfully, he had his telescope’s camera...
When It Comes to NASA Contracts, Space X, Boeing, and the Big Boys Aren’t the Only Players in the Game The few folks that work at Advanced Space in Boulder, CO have got to be pretty pleased with a new...
NASA’s Keeping an Eye on Two Asteroids Coming Close Tomorrow For astronomers at NASA’s asteroid monitoring team, this weekend will be something of a reunion. Two asteroids that the team has observed before are swinging by for a weekend visit....
When There’s Something Strange in Your Universe, Who Ya Gonna Call? That’s Right. Einstein. What the heck can I write about Albert Einstein that hasn’t already been written? I mean, Newton has a unit of force named after him. Keppler’s...
It’s Not a New Earth, but The Discovery of Atmospheric Water on Another World has Huge implications K2-18b. Ever heard of it? If not, you may want to remember the name. It’s a super-earth around 110 light-years away. K2-18b is...
As We Wait for Musk’s Next Big Announcement about SpaceX Starship, New Details are Leaked. SpaceX founder, and my favorite slightly-eccentric robber-baron billionaire, Elon Musk will announce the next step in Starship’s evolution at the end of this month. Space...
NASA Releases New Photos of a Dying Star that Happened Over 11,000 years ago. When we point our cameras, telescopes, and instruments at the night sky, it’s important to realize that the images we see are portraits of the past....
India Prepares to Make History with Chandrayaan-2 Video provided by Doordarshan National. History being made as India prepares to become the fourth nation to land a craft on the moon! Update: Communication with Vikram Lander lost 2km before touchdown, but orbiter...
Full-Sized SpaceX Starship Mk1 Prototype Might be Revealed This Month SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the world three years ago that he was going to take humans to Mars. In the past few weeks, he’s demonstrated that the tech required...
Conflicting Universal Expansion Data May Indicate That We Don’t Know as Much about the Universe As We Thought We’ve known the Universe is still expanding for some time now. We thought we knew exactly how fast universal expansion is happening,...
Chandrayaan-2 Lander and Orbiter Separate and Prepare for Landing In a truly remarkable feat given the budget of the project, India prepares to become the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon. Yesterday at approximately 3:45 am...
After Last-Minute Delay, SpaceX Resets and Starhopper Reaches Its Goal of 150 Meters I reported the other day on a last-minute failure that ended the first attempt at an untethered 150-meter hop for the SpaceX Starhopper prototype. Monday at around...
SpaceX Hopes to Retry Starhopper Test Today SpaceX Starhopper, the prototype for the long-awaited Starship spacecraft, failed again on Monday. Starhopper should have launched around 500 feet into the air and made a gentle landing on terra firma using propulsion...
Allegations of First Space-Crime Committed May Be Overhyped but Raise Good Questions about Legality. [Sighs] First of all, I hate that I have to write this story. It involves the personal lives of an astronaut, her estranged spouse, and their...
Chandrayaan-2 Reaches Lunar Orbit, Sends Back Great Pics! India’s been working very hard lately to prove they can run with the big dogs when it comes to space exploration. The second most populous nation on earth made news earlier this...
ISS Astronauts Complete EVA Successfully and Install the New ISS Docking Adapter. Early yesterday morning (depending on where you are on Earth) astronauts Nick Hague and Drew Morgan did something even crazier than jumping out of an airplane. They jumped...
Why Did Elon Musk Send A Tesla Into Space? If you’re the cynical type, you’d answer that question with something like, “Because he has more dollars than sense.” On the other hand, if you’re the optimistic-rainbows-and-unicorns type, you might say...
SpaceSpeak: Send A Text Message to Outer Space?
