Latest Congressional Budget Allows Funding for “Space Corps” Under the Secretary of the Air Force – Not a Full-Blown Space Force Branch of the DoD. Earlier this year, I wrote a very long (by this site’s standards) diatribe about the...
On Its First Trip to the ISS, The Boeing Starliner Won’t Get to the ISS. This morning the first mission to the ISS for the Boeing Starliner lifted off. Then it flew itself into the wrong orbital pattern. It’s hard...
They Said It Was Impossible. Then Scientists Took a Photo of a Supermassive Black Hole. Science, the academic journal, named the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy the top scientific breakthrough of 2019....
SpaceX Rocket will Carry Marijuana to the ISS for “Scientific Purposes.” A few weeks ago, A SpaceX Dragon capsule went to the ISS with the makings for beer. For that specific mission, the idea was to see how seeds germinate...
This Friday Boeing Launches a Critical Mission for Starliner and Star Wars Concludes the Saga with The Rise of Skywalker The world is watching as two major events creep up on us in a couple of days. First, Boeing is going...
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...
Disney’s New Star Wars Western Is A Huge Success. Here’s Why… (Warning: Possible Spoilers Ahead) Well, Star Wars fans, we’re a little over halfway through the season of the much-hyped Disney Plus series, “The Mandalorian.” So far, reviews from critics...
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...
139 New Minor Planets Beyond Neptune May Lead Us to Planet Nine!
