Life on Mars, and not too long ago.
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 […]
space exploration
Windbots to explore Jupiter – the bumpier the ride, the better.
Sky News looks up to report on NASA’s airiest plans for exploring Jupiter. They’re designing a flock of turbulence-fueled “windbots” – cheap, floating robots to […]
Science Art: Soaking Up the Rays of a Sun-Like Star, by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, 2015.
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s impression of a planet just discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission that’s gotten the folks at SETI all excited. […]
Science Art: New Horizons (Tribute), NPR/NASA/Bradbury
From NPR’s Skunk Bear: Words by Ray Bradbury. Images by NASA.
Sorry, no science news today. Busy WATCHING A SPACE SHIP FLY PAST PLUTO.
You can too, over here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/, or here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/. Remember, Pluto’s 4.5 light-hours away. You dial their number, it takes most of the day for […]
Good morning, Philae. How’s that comet looking 200 days later?
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet: Hidden by shadows, […]
Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society
Click to embiggen This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as […]
SONG: I Am Sailing
SONG: “I Am Sailing.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “LightSail”, sail.planetary.org, retrieved 13 May 2015, as used in the post “A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime […]
A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.
Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a […]
In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)
Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems […]
Science Art: Firing in the Fog, 1995
Click to embiggen vastly In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day. Found on GRIN.
Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!
The Atlantic has a heartwarming story about the little flying robot that could (if only we’d let it)…
Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.
Click to embiggen This is happening now. This summer. A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it […]
Magnetic mystery satellites launching tonight
Scientific American electrifies us with news of a cluster of satellites investigating the destructive power of the northern lights: The Magnetsopheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, […]
Methane on Mars
IFLScience smells more traces of life on Mars, by curiously sniffing spikes of Red Planet methane: Since it landed on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity […]