China’s rover scoots around the dark side of the moon.
Science News is following the progress of China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover as they discover all sorts of new things about the layers of […]
space exploration
Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.
Click to embiggen Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut. This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis […]
A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto
Nature shares the wonder of Arrakoth, the object once known as 2014 MU69, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, the most distant world we’ve studied […]
Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.
Click to embiggen vastly This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is
The High Martian Wind
(In all caps because that’s a title, isn’t it?) Science News reports on the work the MAVEN probe is doing mapping the movements of the […]
Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019
Click to embiggen vastly UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the […]
Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.
Space.com has photos and background on B333, an expandable and expansive zero-gravity habitat for the next generation of space explorers. Bottom line is it’s pretty […]
India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.
Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole: Mission control at the […]
A remarkably tidy asteroid.
Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust: The asteroid, thought to have formed from […]
Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.
The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would […]
Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren
Click to embiggen From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists […]
Venus is luring Earth explorers again.
Nature has a quite long piece (and quite sensational headline) on the way Earth’s “evil twin,” Venus, is inspiring a new generation of interplanetary explorers […]
Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston
Click to embiggen Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this […]
The Search for Martian Fettuccine
Science Daily has word from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, who instruct us to look for life on Mars by searching out rock formations […]
Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972
Click to embiggen A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea. From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center: This illustration Skylab […]