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...
First Came Hubble. The James Webb Space Telescope Launches Next Year. But is LUVOIR Next? It’s been thirty years since Hubble—NASA and the world’s first space telescope—launched and began to give us some of the most stunning images of the...
Looking for the Ultimate in Space Collectibles and Memorabilia? A U.K.-Based Company Has You Covered! You want a moon rock? There are some cheap knockoffs out there, but the real deal is pretty much out of reach for most of...
Everyone Needs a Hobby—and You Need a Space-Themed Hobby. Come on, admit it. Spending hours alone playing ES:O is great and all, but sometimes you need to take a break from the screen and the keyboard and just try something...
The Space Porn Guide to Becoming an Amateur Astronomer… ‘Cause Sometimes Amateurs are the Best! I figured I’d start this piece out by reminding us all about how one starts to catch the bug that causes an obsession with being...
Nearly Every Sci-Fi Classic Features Some Kind of Laser Weapons. But Are They Possible? And If So Are They the Best Choice? It’s pretty much a given in the realm of Science Fiction that space warriors use laser weapons. I...
Moving close-to, at, or faster than light-speed has been a cornerstone of Sci-Fi for decades, but can we ever do it? “Punch it, Chewy!” Han says. The Wookiee pushes the hyperdrive lever and the stars turn to star lines. The...
Will The 2020s Deliver Us the Future We Were Promised? I Want My Mandalorian Jet Pack! I was born a year after Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was released in theaters. Childhood, for me, was spent dreaming of...
After Sixteen Years of Faithful Service, NASA’s Ready to Buy Its Spitzer Telescope a Watch and a Cake. For those of you youngins that don’t get the watch and cake reference, once upon a time, people would work at the...
The Space Force (A Division of the U.S. Air Force) Steals Its New Logo from Star Trek. Clearly nobody at the Pentagon or the White House is listening to me. I’m shocked, but I guess I can figure that part...
NASA Posts a New Video of Star Wars Actors Kelly Marie Tran and Naomi Ackie Training with Real Astronauts. I’ll be honest. Star Wars never really made me want to be an astronaut. It made me want to be a space...
The Curiosity Rover Bugs Out and Needs an Attitude Adjustment Okay. So it’s not really that type of attitude adjustment. Nevertheless, NASA’s Curiosity rover—the only working rover we have on Mars—seemed to have a crisis on the existential level. A glitch...
LEGO Releasing an International Space Station Model on February 1st! Calling all Space Nerds! Oh, I’m sorry… Look, if you’re reading a site called Space Porn and you don’t consider yourself a Space Nerd, you’re deluding yourself. You may as well...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has a Moondust Factory that can make Oxygen from Lunar Dust! Europe’s space agency, the ESA, opened up a prototype plant to turn moondust into oxygen. While most of the news about NASA centers on...
Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss—What Colonizing Mars May Actually Look Like Elon Musk took to the Twitterverse on Thursday night, revealing a lot of information about his plans for colonizing Mars. His grand vision: a city...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Aces Its Final Milestone and a Falcon 9 Goes Boom! Watch Saturday’s Critical Safety Test Here. Saturday morning SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule passed its final critical safety test with flying colors. Actually, the capsule passed with exploding...
Engineers Hope for a Big Boom from the Falcon 9 Rocket During Tomorrow’s Crew Dragon Abort Test. Well, folks, we’re nearing a critical moment in human spaceflight. Tomorrow morning, SpaceX and NASA will conduct the final major safety test for...
Space Colonies May Rely on Fungi for Building Materials! So, it’s 2020. By all rights, if you’re my age and you grew up watching Marty McFly, then we’re in “The Future!” [Imagine my best Christopher Lloyd impression on that one]...
China’s Rocket Launches Are Happening at a Break-Neck Tempo. Can the Rest of the World Keep Up? Just over 24 hours after its last “mystery” satellite launch (the first of 2020), China launched another commercial satellite late last night (Wednesday)....
Eight Planet Candidates, Five Exoplanets, Two Super-Earths, One Cold-Neptune… and a Partridge in a Pear Tree. Okay, neither partridges nor pear trees have anything to do with this story. We do, however, have a lot to talk about when it...
Astronauts and Heroes Jessica Meir and Christina Koch Do It Again with the Second All-Female Spacewalk. This morning, despite a slight helmet issue, Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed their second spacewalk together. Oh yeah… and that makes it the...
Japanese Billionaire and SpaceX Customer Maezawa Yusaku is Looking for Love (In all the Odd Places) This is just too good to leave alone. Maezawa Yusaku (I type it the Japanese way—family name first; deal with it) is widely known...
