Planetary Habitability How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?phys.org - Sam Sholtis A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star …
Black Holes Our Galaxy's Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up and Nobody Knows WhyVICE - Becky FerreiraThe supermassive black hole that lives at the center of our galaxy has been mysteriously sparkling as of late, and nobody knows the reason. This dark behemoth, known as as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is million
Methane NASA’s methane discovery on Mars just got a whole lot more interestingbgr.com - Mike Wehner Back in late June, NASA revealed that sensors on its Curiosity rover were returning alarmingly high readings of methane that came seemingly out of …
Play buttonNASA To celebrate NASA’s 60th birthday, 21 vintage photos from spacePopular Science - Jeanette D. MosesOne small step for a man and his camera, one giant leap for photography. Sixty years ago NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) officially became NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space
World Economic Forum NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air - and it could feed billionsweforum.org - Robby Berman It's not like you can make food out of thin air. Well…it turns out you can. A company from Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new …
Space The Power Source for a Mars Outpost Could Be Ready in 3 YearsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanAn experimental miniature nuclear reactor known as Kilopower, meant to power manned outposts beyond Earth, could be ready for an in-flight test as early as 2022, says a project lead project at the Department
Solar Wind Parker Solar Probe sends back images from its orbits of the sunCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun. Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission's namesake, Eugene Parker, in attendance, the probe has made
Play buttonSpaceX Astronauts Test Out Their Sleek New SpaceX Flight Suitssmithsonianmag.com - Jason Daley Last week NASA released images of astronauts testing out SpaceX’s sleek, white and gray spacesuits. Since NASA shuttered its space shuttle program in …
Roscosmos Europe and Russia’s mission to Mars runs into a speed bump after two failed parachute testsThe Verge - Loren GrushEurope and Russia’s joint robotic mission to Mars has hit a snag after the parachutes needed for landing the spacecraft on the Red Planet failed in two back-to-back tests. There isn’t much time left to
Technology A planetary telescope would use Earth’s atmosphere as a giant lensMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv The “terrascope” could outperform the light-gathering power of any feasible ground-based telescope. Telescopes are expensive devices. The Giant …
Hasselblad A Photographer Made a Working Replica of NASA’s Moon CameraWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong,” the documentary photographer Susan Meiselas once said. It’s an observation that …
Play buttonGalaxies Master plan of the universe revealed in new galaxy mapsNBC News - By Corey S. PowellIn the renderings, our Milky Way galaxy is a tiny speck in the midst of other galaxies and colossal voids. Brent Tully knows where you live and where you’re going — in the cosmic sense, that is. At the
Albert Einstein The Universe Speaks in Numbers review – should we believe in a ‘theory of everything’?The GuardianPhysicists have spent 40 years making predictions that can’t be tested, but whose huge value is outlined in Graham Farmelo’s superb history “A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils”, was what Albert
Planetary Habitability NASA drops insane map of 4,000 planets outside our solar systemCNET - Eric Mack In just a few decades, we've gone from knowing of no planets beyond the solar system to thousands. Here's how it happened.
Hubble Space Telescope Jupiter's new portrait snapped by HubbleCNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope spends some time looking at the outer planets of our solar system. In late June, during one of these observation periods, Hubble took a stunning detailed of
SpaceX Check Out This Amazing Video of a Boat Catching a SpaceX Rocket PieceScienceAlert - JAKE KANTER SpaceX snatched a rocket nose out of the sky – and CEO Elon Musk posted a video of the moment on Twitter. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an AMOS-17 …
Spitzer Space Telescope NASA’s Spitzer just spotted a galaxy perfectly aligned with Earthbgr.com - Mike Wehner NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is capable of capturing some truly stunning snapshots of distant features in space, and usually, when we see images of …
Play buttonInventions Scientists are using the cold of outer space to rethink air conditioningQuartz - Chase PurdyThe trick to creating cool air without any electricity has been hiding in plain sight. A California-based company called SkyCool Systems is in the early stages of manufacturing a cooling system that’s
Light Sail LightSail 2, Pushed by Sunlight, Raises Its Orbit by 10,500 Feet in Just Two WeeksGizmodo - George Dvorsky Two weeks after entering solar sailing mode, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft has managed to raise its orbit by nearly 2 miles, in an …
Play buttonFalcon 9 Watch two rockets launch within hours of each other from North and South AmericaThe Verge - Loren GrushThis afternoon, two rockets will take off just hours apart from North and South America, giving space fans a back-to-back show of launch live streams. First up is the European Ariane 5 rocket, which is
Science New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landingphys.org - Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and …
Science A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the MoonWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus It was just before midnight on April 11 and everyone at the Israel Aerospace Industries mission control center in Yehud, Israel, had their eyes fixed …
NASA NASA's New Nuclear Reactor Could Change Space Explorationdiscovermagazine.com Want to start a space colony? Even if you don’t, space agencies across the globe do. Whether it’s a moon base now, à la the Trump administration’s …
Play buttonExoplanets Check out this cool video map of known exoplanetsearthsky.org - By Paul Scott Anderson This short video, just over a minute long, takes you on a journey from 1991, when no exoplanets were known, to today’s 4,003+ known exoplanets. Why …
Investing Is This the Chinese SpaceX?The Motley Fool - Rich Smith It only takes one launch to start a rocket empire -- and now China has notched its first successful private space launch. At long last, China has its …
Chemical Engineering Why NASA Should Bake Cookies in SpaceThe Atlantic - Marina KorenHigh-tech agriculture would keep far-flung astronauts alive, but making something delicious would keep them happy. The sight of a cookie had never made me grimace until this one showed up in my email DoubleTree
Galaxies New 3D Map Shows Milky Way’s Big Twistsmithsonianmag.com Most textbooks teach that our galaxy, the Milky Way, resembles a flat spiral, with several prominent arms spinning out from the center. But a new, …
Galaxies The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky WayTechCrunch - Devin ColdeweySix years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improved 3D model of our galaxy, based on direct observation rather than theoretical frameworks. And although no one ever really thought
NASA The SLS rocket may have curbed development of on-orbit refueling for a decadeArs Technica - Eric Berger Nearly a decade ago, when Congress directed NASA to build a large rocket based upon space shuttle-era technology called the Space Launch System, the …
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