Science Art: Saturn V-Shuttle-Ares IV comparison, by Bchan.
Some rockets are bigger than others. I think this illustration (which I found here, on Wikimedia Commons) is maybe a better depiction of how space […]
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Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.
Mashable reports on the Mars Rover Curiosity, which has just found evidence of some major flooding and splishing and splashing on the surface of Mars […]
SONG: Inside the Moon
SONG: “Inside the Moon”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: BBC, 15 July 2024, “Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans“, as used […]
Moon running on the Wall of Death
Science News finds inspiration from the carnival for a new way to keep astronauts in shape, by running along the inside of a circular wall […]
The space heroine of Cameroon.
BBC reports on scientist Marie Makuate, who is leading a one-woman campaign to give the African continent a winning position in the new space race: […]
NASA confirms – that really *was* space junk that hit man’s house.
He thought so! LiveScience recently reported on Alejandro Otero, who in 2021 was pretty sure the weird chunk of stuff that crashed through his roof […]
SpaceX leads the way… in workplace injuries.
Maybe Houston Chronicle just likes ragging on Elon Musk, maybe it’s a local paper commenting on a locally important industry – either way, they’ve got […]
Voyager 1 is working again.
NASA reports that the interstellar probe, which stopped sending back updates last November, is once again letting HQ know how its onboard systems are doing. […]
Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big! Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from […]
Odysseus tipped over on the Moon.
Reuters reports on the first private-corp lunar lander, who successfully touched down on the Moon and sent back useful data about conditions there. That’s the […]
Building a telescope on the Moon.
BBC Sky at Night Magazine reports on NASA’s plan to look deeper into space than ever before by setting up a 9-lb (4-kg) radio telescope […]
New hope for life on Mars
Space.com brings more evidence of a life-sustaining environment on primordial Mars, in the form of ancient sediments that confirm Jezero crater was once a vast […]
Locusts raised in a centrifuge have stronger skeletons.
Science Magazine gets heavy with insects that, when brought up in the “hypergravity” of a spinning centrifuge, grow stronger exoskeletons as a result: When a […]
SETI talked for 20 minutes with a whale.
Mashable has an alien communication story with an aquatic twist. SETI and the Alaska Whale Foundation practiced for first contact by spending 20 minutes “conversing” […]
Blue Origin is back in the space business.
Ars Technica reports on a rocket launch from Jeff Bezos’ space company – the first in 15 months, after an engine failure destroyed a New […]