Dust Storm Leaves ‘Opportunity’ to Fend For Itself
Nearly all of Mars has been under the assault of a planet-wide dust storm since June. The nerve-wracking question: Is the Opportunity rover okay? The 15-year-old rover has been incommunicado […]
Space
NASA – The Music Video
The scientist/artists in NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio created this magnificent video to accompany a recent performance by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops of Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune.” For more […]
High Schoolers Discover Mysterious X-Ray Source
High school students’ data-mining project revealed an enigmatic X-ray source in the archive of the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory. A group of 12th graders in Italy—most not even […]
Amateur astronomer looks at a distant star just as it explodes
Amateur astronomer, Victor Buso, struck lucky in September 2016 when he decided to test out a new camera attached to his 16 inch telescope. Keen to make sure his new […]
Mars Orbiter in Standby Mode After Battery Problem
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), at Mars since 2006, put itself into a precautionary standby mode on Feb. 15 in response to sensing an unexpectedly low battery voltage. The orbiter […]
SpaceX sent a nerdy Easter egg into space
Tesla wasn’t shy about advertising its launch of a Tesla Roadster on board a Falcon Heavy rocket, on Tuesday. But it was less vocal about that Roadster’s secret cargo: a […]
Rocket Lab and the “Secret” Disco ball
Last weekend, Rocket Lab successfully reached orbit for the first time with its Electron booster. It turns out the rocket also carried a secret payload into space at the […]
First Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in 150 Years Coming This Month
The first eclipse of 2018 will be a lunar one that comes at the very end of the month, on Jan. 31. It will be a total eclipse that involves […]
Pizza in Space
An interesting video of the ISS crew making pizza in space.
Self-taught rocket scientist plans to launch over ghost town
Another gem from the bowels of the Interweb. Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent the last few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his […]