Suits All Sorted, Schedules Aligned, Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir Made History Today With the First All-Female Spacewalk! First, congratulations. Mrs. Koch, Ms. Meir, you’re an inspiration to not only every young girl who likes science in America but...
Starlink—Musk’s Plan for Next-Generation Internet Service—Could Potentially Include Up To 42,000 Satellites! We reported earlier this year about concerns over the size of Musk’s constellation. Terrestrial astronomers were concerned that the plans—which then proposed 12,000 satellites—would pollute their view of...
NASA’s Beguiled Megarocket—The Space Launch System (SLS)—Faces Even More Delays The Space Launch System, or SLS, won’t fly this year. Probably not next year either. The megarocket meant to send U.S. astronauts back to the Moon has faced many delays....
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Others Demonstrate New Artemis Spacesuit – It’s Unisex and The First Woman on the Moon Will Be Wearing One! Vice President Mike Pence took some flack when he cut four years off of the deadline...
New Particle Accelerator Helical Engine Proposed by NASA Could Have Us Saying “Warp Speed, Mr. Sulu!” An engineer at NASA proposed a new accelerator for spacecraft called the “helical engine,” and they say it could potentially reach “close to light...
Ever Wanted to Rant at the Aliens? Well, SpaceSpeak Gives You That Opportunity for Free… Sort Of. There are all kinds of ways to achieve immortality. Okay, maybe not in the way you’re thinking, but if you want to ensure...
Science Educator and Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye Says Living on Mars is Science-Fiction, But NASA Should Focus on Getting There Anyway. Bill Nye (The Science Guy)—yeah, that one—has been rather outspoken these past few years. The one-time children’s science...
Elon Musk and Jim Bridenstine Appeared Together for an Update on the SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule One wouldn’t call them “frienemies,” exactly. However, the relationship between NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Elon Musk hasn’t been particularly chummy, of late, either....
Michel Mayor—Exoplanet Expert, and Nobel Laureate—Claims Planets Beyond Our Solar System Are Too Far Away. It’s hard to argue with a Nobel laureate. Unless you are one yourself, or you’re arguing which Pink Floyd album was best, you’ve automatically lost...
Bridenstine Complained; Musk Listened, and Now Crew Dragon Is in High Gear Now that all of the hullabaloo over Starship has died down, Elon Musk’s SpaceX wizards can get back to the alchemical sorcery that is getting a Dragon to...
Hiring in the Commercial Space Race—Blue Origin Is Still Ahead, but SpaceX Isn’t Far Behind Back in 2002, Elon Musk launched SpaceX. Since then, he and rival plutocrat Jeff Bezos have been engaged in a [clears throat] rocket waving competition....
After Nearly a Year in Space, Astronaut Nick Hague Shares Some of His Favorite Memories – And Photos! 203 days. Nick Hague served humanity on the International Space Station for 203 days. For comparative purposes, today is the 282nd day...
Netflix Reveals New Trailer and Details for Lost in Space—Season 2 Those of you waiting to find out what happened to the Robinson family won’t have to wait much longer. The family, along with ten new episodes of the show they...
Check Out This Awesome Video of a Full 90-minute ISS Orbit Time-Lapsed Down to One Minute! While most of us space nerds are sitting around twiddling our thumbs waiting for something to happen today (it’s a slow space-news day, apparently),...
New Discovery of Cosmic Web Filaments Helps Confirm Models and Furthers Understanding of How the Universe Formed. Most astrophysicists agree that the Universe is about 13.8 billion years old and started with a “Big Bang.” The theory has prevailed for...
The Commercial Space Race Between Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Others is Turning into More of a Hurtle Event Than a 5K. Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, which started in 2001, hoped to send a manned craft beyond the wild...
Jupiter’s Massive Shadow Spelled Death for Juno Mission, So the Craft Burned 10.5 Hours of Fuel to Avoid It! Juno, the name of both the mission and the spacecraft NASA sent to Jupiter, just pulled off some next-level maneuvering. The...
Short Mission for the First Emirati Astronaut Comes to an End Early this morning, Russian commander Alexey Ovchinin, NASA flight engineer Nick Hague and Emirati astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori began their journey home. Both Ovchinin and Hague were ending long...
Branson’s Ambitious Space Company Could See a Crewed Spaceflight Next Year—A First for Public/Private Space Partnership Space nerds and those looking to cash in on the space boom will be thrilled next year. If we believe the current tech-billionaires, anyway....
Even as Elon Musk Shows Off His Impressive Starship Plans, China’s Manned Spacecraft Could Start Actually Carrying Astronauts Sooner. So far in the endeavor to explore space, three countries reign supreme, and one of them is a relative newcomer. That...
The East Coast’s Biggest Comic-Con Has Plenty to Offer Space Fans It ain’t San Diego, but the Big Apple undoubtedly has its share of proud nerds. San Diego’s reigned supreme in the Comic-Con world for years and years, but New...
Sorry, Pluto, You’re Still Not a Planet, but Neither is Planet Nine, Apparently. Some freaky tomfoolery at the outer edges of the solar system caught the attention of a bunch of scientists about five years ago. The freaky tomfoolery in...
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