Asteroids Feast your eyes on the Earth-like, rocky debris covering the surface of asteroid Ryugubgr.com - Mike Wehner Japan’s space agency JAXA has had a busy year, but that’s par for the course when you’re controlling an asteroid probe orbiting a distant space rock. …
Exoplanets When aliens spot Earth, what will they see?bgr.com - Mike Wehner Researchers have made incredible advancements in the detection and study of exoplanets in recent years, spotting literally thousands of new planets …
Play buttonAustralian Outback Watch NASA scientists pretend the Australian Outback is Marsbgr.com - Mike Wehner Next year is going to be a pretty big deal for scientists studying Mars, with both NASA’s Mars 2020 mission and the ExoMars rover mission kicking off …
Salmonella Deadly ‘super’ Salmonella outbreak linked to Mexican cheese, US beefbgr.com - Mike Wehner Coming down with a nasty Salmonella infection can easily sideline even the healthiest of people, but it’s when the bacteria show resistance to common …
Oceans Earth might not be the best place for life after allbgr.com - Mike Wehner In the ongoing search for worlds outside of our solar system, scientists often compare newly-discovered planets with our own as they offer educated …
Robotics Russia launches test of new rocket booster, sends humanoid robot into spacebgr.com - Mike Wehner All eyes were on the International Space Station yesterday as NASA astronauts performed a spacewalk to install a new docking port that will allow …
Habitats This inflatable space habitat was built for comfort, and could travel to Marsbgr.com - Mike Wehner Humans are headed back to the Moon and, eventually, Mars, and for space-faring astronauts, luxury is often the last thing on their mind. Still, …
ISRO India’s Moon lander just snapped its first photo of the lunar surfacebgr.com - Mike Wehner The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has had a big week already. The group’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the …
Air Quality Air pollution can kill you, even when it’s considered ‘safe’bgr.com - Mike Wehner The air quality in many major cities around the world falls well below acceptable limits, and the death toll is rising. However, a new study shows …
Aliens A red-hot alien world was found orbiting three starsbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has already made some incredible discoveries in its first couple of years in service, but its latest find …
Opioids Experts say wisdom teeth removal is leading to opioid additionbgr.com - Mike Wehner If you’ve ever had your wisdom teeth removed you know how painful the days immediately following the surgery can be. Over-the-counter painkillers are …
Elon Musk Elon Musk walks back ‘Nuke Mars’ idea, says maybe satellites will work betterbgr.com - Mike Wehner It’s only been a few days since SpaceX boss Elon Musk fired off a tweet reminding everyone that he wants to “nuke Mars,” but he’s already offered a …
Mars Europe’s new Mars rover has alien-hunting eyesbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is inching toward its eventual launch in July of next year, but it’s not the only rover that has an upcoming date with the …
Asteroids A huge asteroid hurtling toward Earth will fly by us next monthbgr.com - Mike Wehner Some astronomers have suggested that Earth is overdue for a large asteroid impact, and that we’re living on borrowed time until we can shore up our …
Play buttonSpace Station Watch NASA astronauts spacewalk outside the International Space Station livebgr.com - Mike Wehner The International Space Station is one seriously high-tech laboratory, but it can only remain useful as long as all of its systems are operating as …
Tesla Roadster Elon Musk’s red Roadster just completed its first lap around the Sunbgr.com - Mike Wehner It’s now been about a year and a half since Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla Roadster was sent into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The launch …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoEarth Scientists found stardust in the most unlikely of placesbgr.com - Mike Wehner Earth has managed to avoid any truly catastrophic impacts from objects in space for quite some time, but that doesn’t mean material from the cosmos …
NASA Mars was once warm and rainy before turning frigid, study findsbgr.com - Mike Wehner Scientists have learned a lot about Mars in recent years, and based on observations from the fancy hardware NASA has sent to the Red Planet we know …
Jupiter NASA confirms plans to send spacecraft to Jupiter’s frozen ocean moonbgr.com - Mike Wehner Astronomers dedicate their careers to unlocking the mysteries of space, and while not all of them are constantly searching for evidence of …
Chandrayaan Programme India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission just hit a major milestonebgr.com - Mike Wehner India is now poised to become the fourth country on Earth to pull off a soft Moon landing. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the …
Nuclear War Study confirms that, yes, a nuclear war between the US and Russia would be the end of daysbgr.com - Mike Wehner It might sound silly to think that a nuclear war between the United States and Russia would be anything but the apocalypse, but for scientists …
Spitzer Space Telescope NASA’s Spitzer reveals surface conditions of distant exoplanetbgr.com - Mike Wehner The hunt for exoplanets has ramped up in recent years as advancing telescope technology is allowing scientists to spot the telltale signs of planets …
NASA NASA needs your help to deliver cargo to its lunar Gatewaybgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA is inching closer to its return to the Moon, but its push to send crewed missions to the lunar surface is really just the start of a much larger …
Colorado Plague-ridden prairie dogs pose danger to Colorado touristsbgr.com - Mike Wehner Officials at a Colorado wildlife refuge are cautiously moving forward with a plan to reopen parts of their facility this week in the wake of a plague …
Hubble Hubble spots a big, weird blob of star gasbgr.com - Mike Wehner When you gaze at the sky on a clear night, you can easily spot countless stars shining bright. Most of them look pretty much identical, aside from …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoElon Musk Elon Musk is once again on a quest to ‘nuke Mars’bgr.com - Mike Wehner If there’s one thing you can say about Elon Musk it’s that he’s never lacked ambition. He’s founded a number of successful companies, and with SpaceX …
Technology Rocket Lab forced to push back launch due to weatherbgr.com - Mike Wehner SpaceX might be the worldwide leader in commercial spaceflight — and get a whole lot of attention because of it — but it’s not the only private …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNews Scientists stunned after spotting record-shattering supernovabgr.com - Mike Wehner Scientists have a pretty good handle on the life cycle of various stars. They know the types of stars that are likely to die in fiery supernova …
Extinction Ancient cave bears were pushed to extinction by humans, not climatebgr.com - Mike Wehner Cave bears no longer exist. They went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, and all we have left of the massive ancient creatures are fossils. …
