As you may or may not know, NASA offered a challenge for anyone to build a crewed moon lander. And according to reporting from Teslarati, SpaceX is throwing their hat in the ring. NASA plans to send humans back to the surface of the moon no earlier than 2028, using a rocket that has yet-to-be assembled, […] More
Today, NASA is expected to officially announce what we’ve all been suspecting since last summer. NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover is officially dead. Edit to update: NASA has released an official statement saying that Oppy is dead. Goodnight, sweet prince. It’s been eight months since we last heard from Opportunity. That last communication came just as […] More
No, this isn’t a remake of a terrible and scientifically inaccurate 90s film, NASA is actually planning on changing the trajectory of an asteroid in orbit in 2022. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will launch between December 2020 and May 2021, and rendezvous with a small asteroid in October 2022 to throw it slightly off […] More
Shortly after he assumed the office of presidency, Donald Trump had a conversation with the acting administrator of NASA regarding the likelihood of a crewed mission to Mars by the end of his first term if he gave NASA unlimited funding. What makes this even more amusing is that it all started when he scheduled […] More
If you weren’t able to see the super blood wolf moon eclipse a couple nights ago, you’re not alone. Much of North America was covered in clouds – and freezing temperatures – that hindered your ability to view it. I was able to see it from my house here in Indianapolis, Indiana, but there was […] More
Lunar plants, we hardly knew ye. Earlier this month, China made history with their Chang’e 4 mission by being the first country to successfully soft land a rover on the far side of the moon. Previous lunar soft landings had been on the side of the moon that is always visible to Earth (as it […] More
While the United States government remains in a shut down state, China’s government is busy sprouting plants on the far side of Earth’s moon. China’s Chang’e probe — which made history last week when it sent back the first ever images from that distant part of the moon, was sent on a mission to experiment […] More
Last June, astronomers in Hawaii saw a bright, but brief, burst of light emanating from a galaxy named CGCG 137-068. They believe that they witnessed the birth of a black hole, or perhaps a neutron star. Initial observations suggested that it was a supernova, however the explosion was ten to 100 times brighter than that of […] More
Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope, astronomers have detected fast radio bursts emanating from a galaxy far, far away. The team of researchers detected thirteen different radio bursts coming from the same location inside a galaxy that’s 1.5 billion light years away. This means the signals left their host galaxy during the Proterozoic era, traveling at […] More
Between crewed missions launching from Florida, and the Starship Hopper, SpaceX is really ramping up the excitement for space enthusiasts in 2019. Later this month, they’re scheduled to conduct their first of three demonstration launches of their Crew Dragon capsule. That means we can expect the first US-based crewed rocket launches for the first time […] More
Far be it for me to be an alarmist, but I have to relay some important news to you about our galaxy, the Milky Way. I hope you’re sitting down when you read this. It concerns all of us, every single life form on Earth. A new study is predicting that our galaxy will collide […] More
In a video, Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is currently our country’s highest-ranking diplomat, says that he believes that the rapture is real and is coming. In the video he says: “We will continue to fight these battles, it is a never ending struggle… until the Rapture.” This timeline just keeps getting […] More
