Musk Tweets About “Big Rock,” Apophis, and Sends People into Freak-Out Mode So here’s a thing that happened. Joe Rogan, comedian and probably America’s favorite podcaster, sent out a tweet about an asteroid. The tweet shared a story from Express...
NASA Chief Has Shown Humility, Grace Under Pressure, and Above All, Tenacity in the Face of Political Bullying. If you’d have asked me to defend Jim Bridenstine as the nominee for NASA Administrator when it happened last April, I’d have...
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...
NASA’s Humanoid Robonaut Will Return to the ISS Soon, Officials Say Next week, Russia will send FEDOR, their own humanoid robot into space. I mean, we did it back in 2011, but whatevs, we’re not keeping score anymore… right? The...
Brad Pitt and Director James Gray Talk Story Behind Some Amazing Visuals! I’ve written before about my huge um… excitement… over Brad Pitt’s new space drama Ad Astra. It’s true. I love me some Brad Pitt. I also love me some...
Jim Bridenstine Calls for “Strategic Pause” and Independent Review of ISS National Laboratory. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced via Twitter Tuesday night that an independent review of ISS National Lab is coming. This comes just a couple of weeks after...
The Mission to Retrieve Curiosity’s Samples May Be Eating Up Future Funding What happens when you put a bunch of space scientists in a room to talk about funding. Bedlam, that’s what happens. Well, as “bedlam” as a confluence of...
India’s Chandrayaan-2 Leaves Earth Orbit. Now it’s headed “Straight to the Moon!” A few weeks ago, India launched Chandrayaan-2, a spacecraft designed to land on the Moon’s south pole and continue exploring that region. In doing so, they joined the...
Asteroid Mining For Real, This Time… And No, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck Aren’t Involved. Out there in the black, a 1600-foot asteroid is speeding toward earth. There’s a 1/24,000 chance that it could hit Earth. That may seem like...
Episode 9 Will Be What It Will Be, And “Fans” Will Gripe No Matter What. A new star wars theory hit the internets on Sunday that contains some interesting ideas about Luke Skywalker’s upcoming role in the final chapter of...
Despite Other Testing Setbacks, NASA Moves One Step Closer to American Space Independence A couple of weeks ago, a SpaceX Dragon capsule docked with the ISS and delivered some slime that got a lot of coverage (because…kids) and a really...
Findings From a Supercomputer’s Virtual Universes Clarify the Vision of Our Own Universe. We’ve all heard of “The Big Bang Theory.” (No, Steve! I’m not talking about Leonard, Sheldon, and Penny!) While it’s adapted and changed a lot since its...
Much Ado About Oumuamua and the Aliens: In mid-October of 2019, humans discovered an interstellar object in our solar system for the first time. Researchers atop Haleakala, the tallest point on Maui, made the find using the University of Hawaii’s...
Crew Dragon Delays Make Getting Off of Russian Dependence on Time “Increasingly Difficult” In 2011, NASA retired the Space Shuttle program in favor of developing commercial partnerships to get American astronauts to and from space. Since then, all American astronauts...
Our Biggest Gas Giant, Jupiter, Gets Hit By Massive Object Jupiter is huge. Its gravity is just as huge. To give you some perspective of the sizes we’re talking about, let’s do some comparison. That famous Great Red Spot—the magnificent...
SpaceX is Moving Ahead After ‘Starhopper’ Test Success Engineers in Texas and Florida are working on the first full-scale prototypes of Starship, SpaceX’s flagship spacecraft design. Starship represents the next step in the evolution of the company’s long term plan...
Going to the Moon Again Is All the Rage This Summer… …despite President Beeblebrox’s best efforts to keep the message on Mars. To tell the truth, though, either one seems really sexy — but there aren’t many out there who...
NASA’s Next Space Telescope Finally Gets a Win The James Webb Space Telescope is size large. Everything about it is. The physical size is large. NASA’s budget for the project is large. The timetable is large. Even the delays and...
Bezos’ & Co’s Streaming Service to Revive the Sci-Fi Classic with an Event Horizon Series A new generation of space and sci-fi fans will get a fresh look at a great space flick soon, according to Variety. Paramount Television and Amazon...
Seriously Though, Thanks, Israel! Now We Have Moon Tardigrades! Back in April, Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crashed on the Moon. Even though it was a crash landing, the event did make Beresheet the first commercial spacecraft to land on the Moon. Beresheet’s...
2019 Is Giving Us Great Space Entertainment; 2020 Doesn’t Look as Hopeful 2019 has already given us Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Ad Astra. Before the year is out, it will give us the end to the nine-episode Star Wars Saga. Some...
As The Latest Dragon Capsule Falls Under Parachutes, So Too Will the Crew Version. SpaceX won the bid to design the craft that would carry American astronauts from the U.S. into orbit. That was back the Bush era. A major...
SpaceSpeak: Send A Text Message to Outer Space?
