You read the headline correctly: NASA is giving away an Apollo-era Saturn I rocket to anyone who wants it, provided they front the $250,000 cost to transport it. In other news: I am happy to announce that I am starting a GoFundMe campaign to move an Apollo-era Saturn I rocket into my backyard. According to […] More
50 years ago on July 20th, 1969, humans stepped foot on the surface of the moon for the very first time with the Apollo 11 mission. It was a remarkable achievement that gave the United States victory in the Space Race, and solidified NASA’s role as a leader in space exploration. The Apollo program was […] More
In a report published earlier today, NASA said that the moon is shrinking, which is resulting in Moonquakes. NASA said that as the moon cooled over the last several hundred million years, it has shrunk about 50 meters in size. Much like the surface of a grape wrinkles as it becomes a raisin, the moon […] More
Following the ridiculousness that was the first Falcon Heavy launch, where SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster into space (because: why not?), SpaceX has now successfully completed its first launch for a commercial customer using the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. T-60 seconds → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/3eVqgEtxyR — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 11, 2019 The world’s most powerful […] More
By now most of the world has seen the incredible photo revealed April 10th by the Event Horizon Telescope Project and the National Science Foundation. Though the scientific world bubbled with excitement over the first ever image of a black hole, no one could be as excited as the team who worked tirelessly to make […] More
Star Trek, Andromeda, and Dr. Who. These wildly successful shows have some intersecting storyboards. Black holes have been the linchpin for many plot lines in film and TV alike. Commonly referred to ‘quantum singularities’, they create the perfect drama-driven episode that we love. All the black holes you have seen up until now have been […] More
Today, NASA announced that its Mars Curiosity Rover captured not one, but two solar eclipses from the surface of Mars last month – one each for both of its moons. In order to capture the eclipses, the Curiosity Rover had to bring along special “eclipse glasses”, as NASA explains on the JPL website: When NASA’s […] More
Last week, India intentionally destroyed one of its own satellites in orbit around Earth with a missile, resulting in a large field of space junk currently orbiting Earth. NASA has called the act a “terrible, terrible thing” that has created an “unacceptable” threat to the crew currently aboard the International Space Station. In a town hall held yesterday, NASA […] More
If you’re like me, you dread waking up and getting out of bed in the morning. And if you’re like me, the idea of being paid over $18,000 to stay in bed 24/7 sounds… just wonderful. That’s exactly what a team of researchers at the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Cologne, Germany are looking […] More
As you may have heard, NASA were set to have the first all-female spacewalk this coming Friday, March 29th. However, yesterday NASA made the announcement that they re-assigned the astronauts for the walk, leading to an onslaught of speculation and accusations. Contrary to what many headlines or comments would have you believe, this is *not* […] More
In a paper published in the Journal of Astrobiology and Space Science Reviews, researchers believe they may have found evidence of life currently living on Mars. The researchers believe that fungi-like ‘growths’ found on Mars indicate that there is microbial life currently in existence. These were observed in pictures taken by the Opportunity Rover (may it […] More
A long time ago (September 2018) in a galaxy far, far away (Germany), one man decided to give his observatory some extra pizzazz by painting it to look like R2-D2 from Star Wars. Hubert Zitt, with the help of a small team, transformed the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association into an enormous R2-D2. Bored Panda […] More
