We’ve sent these germs to Mars.
And now, Nature says, we know the names of the interplanetary stowaways: Swabs of Curiosity’s surfaces before it was launched, including its heat shield and […]
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Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center
In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design […]
Broken Bells – indie band, interplanetary heroes.
The Verge explains how a Danger Mouse and The Shins’ James Mercer have joined forces to make some pretty good music… and to save us […]
Russian/American space tensions rise. (Rockets, not so much.)
Laboratory Equipment (and a bunch of other folks online) is following the story of NASA severing ties with Russia… except for the Space Station: NASA […]
Chat with the folks who are building our future in space….
National Geographic is hosting a live chat tomorrow with some of the folks on the forefront of space exploration: On March 20 at 2:30 p.m. […]
Little lost Chinese rover: “Good night, planet Earth. Good night, humanity.”
The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back […]
Say hi to Rosetta, the tweeting comet probe.
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter: ESA Rosetta Mission @ESA_Rosetta 4h Labas, pasauli! Expand Reply Retweet Favorite … ESA […]
Hey, You Two on the Moon – You and Yutu!
Universe Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover: According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor […]
Sailing satellites out of orbit
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk: In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to […]
Astronauts to use space snorkels.
Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction: U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian […]
Water on Mars. Not traces, but actual wet stuff.
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all […]
Martian Lake: Life was (probably) here.
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars: The lake, located inside […]
Space-X launches a satellite. Meaning: they’re in money.
International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space: After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches […]
Manned Mars mission in billionaire’s sights.
Washington Post reflects on the future of space exploration. Rather than the will of a great nation, today it takes a determined billionaire to send […]
Godspeed, MAVEN. Let us know what the weather’s like up there….
NASA has just taken chatting about the weather to a new level with MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution rocket, which just launched yesterday: […]