BBC has more on the Grand Duchy’s grand plans for exploiting the mineral wealth of outer space:
… Read the rest “Luxembourg prepping for asteroid miners.”Former European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain… told reporters on
Popular Mechanics celebrates a milestone for corporate spaceflight:
… Read the rest “Jeff Bezos launches and lands the same rocket twice in a row.”The rocket once again passed through the Karman Line, a distance 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above the Earth that’s
SONG: “Aware of Emptiness.”
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SOURCE: Based on “China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science”, Nature, 17 Dec 2015, as used in … Read the rest “SONG: Aware of Emptiness”
Ars Technica (somewhat breathlessly) reports on SpaceX’s success, launching a rocket that made it to space and then returned home to land safely:
… Read the rest “The Falcon has landed… back on Earth.”The historic flight marked the
Nature reports on China’s new research venture, sending the Monkey King rocket (they do have the best names in China) out to solve some scientific mysteries:
… Read the rest “Monkey King goes in search of dark matter.”China’s first space-based
Sport Illustrated has some great science news today, reporting on the British astronaut who’s running the London Marathon in orbit (on a treadmill):
… Read the rest “Running a marathon on the International Space Station.”[Tim] Peake will be a part of
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”.
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SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as used in the post … Read the rest “SONG: All Praise Black Ice”
Nature reports that the New Horizons probe has snapped photos of cratered mountains that bear the hallmarks of volcanoes that erupt with ice, rather than lava:
… Read the rest “Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!”The images show two mountains
New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years:
… Read the rest “China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.”The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted on the Chang’e 3 lander, which touched down on the
A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA.
Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system:
… Read the rest “There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.”In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous
Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits:
… Read the rest “Spacesuits made… sexy?”Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics,
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.”The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance of 7.1 million kilometers
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”.
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The Denver Post‘s (ahem) “nerd blog” has some interesting things to say about the planet next door – which, University of Colorado researchers believe, might… Read the rest “Life on Mars, and not too long ago.”
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