This spacecraft will get closer to the Sun than any before it—without melting
NASA’s Hottest-Coolest Mission. Heat shield will experience temperatures as high as 1400 degrees Celsius – more than 2500 degree Fahrenheit
Hubble space telescope spots the farthest known star
Hubble finds a star 9 BILLION light years from Earth
Airbus wants to bring down a defunct space station with a giant harpoon
…just so long as the satellite isn’t programmed to say “Call me Ishmael” before firing its harpoon
New Satellite Will Shift Shape While In Space
Shape-shifting in orbit. Does that make this UK vehicle a “were-satellite”?
To Understand the Atmospheres of Distant Exoplanets, Look to Your Car Engine
Programs that analyze car emissions can be used to analyze exoplanet atmospheres
NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler is near the end of its life
Kepler, finder of over 4,000 exoplanets, is nearing its end. But don’t depair, its replacement will be launching in a few days.
New AI Classifies the Chance of Life on Other Worlds – ExtremeTech
Advanced Neural Networks are being trained to help identify possible life-supporting planets.
NASA may use swarms of robotic bees to study Mars
Marsbees. Swarms of bee-sized robots may be used to expand out knowledge of Mars.
Scientists Found a Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter. Here’s What That Means.
An odd ‘see-thru’ galaxy may help explain our understanding of dark matter
OpenAI Wants to Make Safe AI, but That May Be an Impossible Task
How do you protect yourself from the unknown? AI researchers are trying to figure that out.
Life Might Exist in the Clouds of Venus
At an altitude of 30 miles, the Venusian atmosphere could support earthly”extremophiles”.
Air-fueled ion thruster could provide unlimited power for space missions
The ESA states that “air-breathing electric propulsion” is no longer a theory.
An Experimental Space Junk Collector Is On Its Way to the ISS
Four different experimental ways to capture and/or deorbit space debris, coming to an ISS near you.
Is the speed of light slowing down? | Big Think
Quantum entanglement appears to be faster than light.
Another Star May Have Skimmed the Solar System 70,000 Years Ago – ExtremeTech
70,000 years ago, the sky might have looked like Tattooine’s
A Nearby Planet Thought to Host Life Was Just Blasted With Radiation
Will we find a lone monument, aka Clarke’s The Star, when we finally get there?
NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
NASA continues to give us hope that life might exist in the atmospheres of gas giants.
Giant moon crater could be great landing spot
Geologists are mapping out the best landing sites inside the Moon’s oldest crater.
The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Mobile Network
We’re guessing that this all takes place after we start sending clones to the Moon to mine Helium3…
4 Planets in Our Solar System You’ve Probably Never Heard Of | Mental Floss
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets is going to be getting a whole lot longer….
Now Anyone Can Hunt For Exoplanets
Git yourself to GitHub and start searching for homes-away from home!
The Government Has Plans for an Asteroid-Destroying Spacecraft
Don’t know how well this will actually work, but it sure begs for a TV show – The Asteroid Killers! (“monster of the week” format)
NASA wants to change the way we think about the habitable zone
We’re beginning to suspect that Dr. Ian Malcom may be very right: “Life finds a way.”
BOOK REVIEWS: ALL SYSTEMS RED and DESTINY NOWHERE
This week, Steve reviews two books: one hard SF, one pretty good zombie book. And wants to wish you all a belated Happy International Women’s Day!
How Does NASA’s New Mega-Rocket Compare to the Falcon Heavy?
The latest Space Race: NASA cs private enterprise
Scientists Now Know When the First Stars Formed in the Universe
Happy birthday! Suns are now known to have been ‘born’ 180 million years after the Big Bang.
Astrophysicist says space junk, not radio signals, will lead us to aliens
Everything has its uses, even space junk
New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon
Campbell’s novel – The Moon is Hell – may finally have been rendered obsolete by these new findings.
Freaky Theory Offers Totally New Explanation of the Moon’s Origin
A new theory suggests the Earth and Moon DID form together…but not in the way we’ve previously theorized.
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