A woman in the United Kingdom drowned her four year old daughter, Amelia Brooke Harris, and set her house on fire in an attempt to burn the body, all to please God. Fair warning, the details of this story are extremely disturbing. According to the BBC: Carly Ann Harris believed she had to “sacrifice” Amelia […] More
Voyager 2, which blasted off from Earth way back in 1977, has officially left the solar system and is now in interstellar space. According to the BBC: The news was revealed at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington. And chief scientist on the mission, Prof Edward Stone, confirmed it. He said both probes […] More
Last week, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed its 27-month journey to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu. The probe is currently orbiting Bennu about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the surface. The goal of the mission is to land on the asteroid and return a sample of the asteroid. NASA has never attempted anything like this in the […] More
Today, NASA released the first ever audio recording from Mars! NASA’s InSight lander touched down successfully on Mars on November 26th. The primary mission of the lander (which is not a rover) is to study the interior of Mars by drilling below the surface. The goal is to analyze seismic activity and monitor for Marsquakes, which […] More
Elon Musk just released video of the first stage booster of the SpaceX CRS-16 mission as it returns to Earth and spins out of control – in rather dramatic fashion. While SpaceX cut away from the descending booster as it appeared spin during the webcast, Elon Musk released the full video of the landing on […] More
Twelve years ago, NASA launched the New Horizons probe. The primary mission was to study Pluto and get the very first up-close views of Pluto to help us learn more about the most famous not-a-planet. #WorthIt Reaching Pluto was not an easy feat. Pluto is about 40 times as far away from the Sun as […] More
Cover image: NASA astronaut Suni Williams participates in a simulated mission inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon while wearing SpaceX’s spacesuit. Photo Credit: SpaceX Amidst the chaos of pre-Thanksgiving travel, and perhaps a bit buried by the viral story of a Christian missionary being killed by an isolated tribe, NASA and SpaceX announced on Wednesday that the […] More
After firing Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump appointed Matthew Whitaker as the acting Attorney General. The only logical reason for Trump to circumvent the traditional chain of command (which would have resulted in Rod Rosenstein becoming the acting AG) is because Whitaker has openly opined that he believes the Mueller investigation into Russian interference with the […] More
The results of last night’s election were pretty much what everybody expected to happen. Democrats won control of the House, Republicans maintained control of the Senate, and the anti-gay religious bigot Kim Davis lost her bid for re-election. But something we might not have expected to happen happened. Last night, over 20 candidates who have […] More
As we talk about humans returning to the moon and the Trump administration forming the Space Force, it’s easy to think about the less-sexy bodies in the solar system, particularly Neptune and Uranus. But a group at NASA aims to change that, with plans to send probes to the planets to learn more about their […] More
Earlier today, an anomaly during the launch of a Russian Soyuz Rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan forced the crew to abort, and engage in an emergency landing, according to NASA. The crew launched at 4:40 am Eastern time (2:40 pm local time in Russia) with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin onboard. NASA and […] More
While Elon Musk and SpaceX are moving forward with plans to build their first base on Mars in the next 10 years, NASA is is still stuck exploring the red planet with roving robots. Well, I guess we should really say “robot.” NASA’s pair of rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, were subjected to a massive dust […] More
