Mouse sperm survive in space.
Science News reports that DNA is tough stuff, and reproductive cells that were freeze-dried and subjected to months of solar radiation came back home just […]
space exploration
SONG: Another Girl, Another Planet (penitential cover)
SONG: “Another Girl, Another Planet” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April […]
NASA releases 140,000 images, videos, and sounds.
This is a little “inside baseball,” but I’m as much thrilled by Open Culture‘s description of this archive as I am by the existence of […]
Science Art: PIA19048 realistic color Europa mosaic (from the Galileo mission).
Click to embiggen This is Jupiter’s watery (well, icy) moon Europa, as pieced together in realistic color from a bunch of photos taken by NASA’s […]
Science Art: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Voskhod 1, 4-kopek stamp, 1964
Click to embiggen This is Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (or call-sign “Ruby”), the first man to die in space. He’d been denied admission to the space […]
Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.
New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes […]
Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962
Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]
The Martian Timeshare
Nature gives us a new context for exploring Mars, with NASA landing a rugged rover or orbital observer equipped with “generic” scientific equipment so that […]
Science Art: Orbital Balloon Repair (?), by Philip Bono
In 1960, we started planning to send rockets to Mars… and Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer and designer, started figuring out how they’d work, and […]
Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry: At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics […]
Rosetta’s last kiss.
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the silent Philae lander: […]
Science Art: Inside the Spacecraft During Gemini V Flight, by L. Gordon Cooper/NASA
Click to embiggen Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you […]
China’s going to land a person on the moon.
Reuters reports on the goal being set for the world to see – one of China’s top space officials says they’ll put a human on […]
Inflatable space station could orbit by 2020.
New Scientist expands upon the company that just sent an inflatable room to the ISS… and what they’d like to do next: Bigelow Aerospace, which […]
Science Art: ISS016-E-032414 (Underside of Space Shuttle Endeavour), 2008
Click to embiggen NASA has some of the best perspectives on the planet (and some of the planet’s best perspectives). Like so. This is a […]