The two planets look an awful lot like Earth

Gold hunters take heed – Collapsars have been identified as the motherlode!

Life seems to be breaking out all over…maybe

The Exploitation of Space. Now all we need is to get the Space Camels packing along the Space Silk Road….

Jupiter may have ‘holes’.

Just what we need; astronauts jacked on testosterone, in an enclosed space for a very long time….

In order to train an AI on psychotic breaks, it was necessary to reactivate HAL

A habitable planet in the Alpha Centauri system would certainly revive a lot of “out-dated” science fiction

All Hail Aquabot, our new submersible robotic overlord!

The lexicon of “Dark” objects keeps growing. Now we can add “Dark Stars”

Moon People – THIS is the rover you’ve been looking for!

There’s two possible responses to this conjecture and they are “thank goodness!” or “about freakin time!”

Yeah, well, when you’ve got a tentacle growing out of your forehead and tomatoes growing from your ears, you may disagree with this piece.

Your Lunar Calendar

They’re not scared of what you think they might be scared of

Go Lightsail 2, Go!

Apparently, not only can you write science fiction, you can build it too

Now we need a Titan snow globe – complete with raining hydrocarbons

Wally Schirra already owned this camera and realized it would be ideal for space missions. The rest of the story is a history in pictures.

Chandrayaan-2 seeks to land on the Lunar south pole and deploy a rover that will search for evidence of surface ice.

Sailing through space is a concept that goes back to 1610, but we’re probably more familiar with it from stories like Sunjammer (Clarke) and The Mote in God’s Eye (Niven-Pournelle)

The International Asteroid Warning Network didn’t spot this one until just three days before the flyby

Aerogel could be used to create a solid state greenhouse effect, making it possible to grow plants.

Something deep in space we’ve never seen before!

“Warfare is going to look a whole lot more science-fiction”. Well, WE could have told you that decades ago!

The subsurface rock exposed by the impact could be ICE

Be careful: If you start doing this, you might not understand anything people say in your dreams. (Wasn’t Elron into this?)

Hey! There may yet be hope for Niven’s magnetic monopole miners!

Dang. Now we’ll have to stick with worrying about asteroids that might come clost to Earth

MIchio sure knows how to pump up developing tech