New bacteria species discovered… in NASA’s “clean rooms”.
The Telegraph reveals that America’s space agency isn’t quite as clean as it could be. A previously unknown bacteria has been multiplying happily in *two* […]
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India’s super-efficient Mars mission.
You might have seen on BBC and elsewhere that India launched a rocket to Mars. But have you seen the Quartz article on just how […]
This beer has the moon in it.
No, not quoting that classical sot Li Bai, but the (mostly) sober-minded folks at Outside, who are now celebrating Dogfish Head’s latest special beer… made […]
Reality TV colonizes space.
Yep. Virgin Galactic has announced that it’s sending a reality TV show contestant into space while cameras roll: “Space Race” is a groundbreaking, elimination competition […]
NASA launching 3D printer into space.
ABC (the American network) asks why send a toolbox into orbit when you can send one tool that makes all the other ones?: In NASA […]
Curiosity found water on Mars. Like, a lot.
Space.com has more on the Wet Red Planet: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about 2 percent […]
Stay in bed for 70 days, get paid $18,000, help the cause of space exploration. Hat trick!
Outside has an enticing offer for the world’s fittest couch potatoes and La-Z-Boy astronauts. A new NASA project wants YOU to lie in bed for […]
Science Art: Saturn V S-II (Stage Two), NASA illustration.
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and […]
Kamikaze moon robot back on track.
The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate: LADEE took off atop […]
Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.
Or at least speaks his mind, now that he’s retired. Houston Chronicle lets Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, put it all out there on […]
NASA engages the warp drive.
Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive: A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football […]
Science Art: Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz spreads bean dip on a tortilla, from The Astronaut’s Cookbook, 2010
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010. The bottom half […]
Voyager has left the building.
Or rather the solar system. The University of Maryland has put its foot down and said, no matter where you want to put the borders […]
A tsunami on the surface of the sun.
BBC has video footage taken by NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and Japan’s Hinode spacecraft, two satellites that have just filmed a tsunami on the […]
NASA 3D prints a rocket engine part.
BBC has the details on the space-agency’s successful test of a printed fuel injector: The part is used to deliver liquid oxygen and hydrogen gas […]