Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h
Click to embiggen This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to […]
space exploration
Luxembourg prepping for asteroid miners.
BBC has more on the Grand Duchy’s grand plans for exploiting the mineral wealth of outer space: Former European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain… told […]
Jeff Bezos launches and lands the same rocket twice in a row.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a milestone for corporate spaceflight: The rocket once again passed through the Karman Line, a distance 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above […]
SONG: Aware of Emptiness
SONG: “Aware of Emptiness.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science”, Nature, 17 Dec 2015, as used in the […]
The Falcon has landed… back on Earth.
Ars Technica (somewhat breathlessly) reports on SpaceX’s success, launching a rocket that made it to space and then returned home to land safely: The historic […]
Monkey King goes in search of dark matter.
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 […]
Running a marathon on the International Space Station.
Sport Illustrated has some great science news today, reporting on the British astronaut who’s running the London Marathon in orbit (on a treadmill): [Tim] Peake […]
SONG: All Praise Black Ice
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as […]
Ice Volcanoes of Pluto!
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 […]
China’s space telescope: Two years of watching from the moon.
New Scientist gives us an update on what the Chang’e 3 lander has been seeing for the last two years: The 15-centimetre telescope is mounted […]
Science Art: Pluto as seen by New Horizons
Click to embiggen A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA. Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
There’s water ice on another planet. Not Mars. Pluto.
NASA’s Deep Horizons has found traces of good ol’ H2O on that dwarf planet at the fringe of the solar system: In a second significant […]
Spacesuits made… sexy?
Slate (not The Onion) dishes on the Victoria’s Secret designer looking at the next generation of form-fitting spacesuits: Perhaps nobody understands the intersection of aesthetics, […]
Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.
Click to embiggen. The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance […]
SONG: Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)
SONG: “Thirty-Five Minutes (from Earth)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “NASA Windbots Could Explore Gas Giant Jupiter”, Sky News, 24 July 2015, as used in the […]