Popular MechanicsSpace They Printed Beef in SpacePopular Mechanics - By Andrew DanielsWhen we eventually all move to space to live out the rest of our days, we’re going to need to eat. The problem? It’ll be hard to get good nutrition up there because of the lack of land and water resources—a
Popular MechanicsSpace Saturn Is the New Moon KingPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanJupiter has long held the record for the number of satellites orbiting a planet in the solar system, but that title has now gone to another planet: Saturn. Twenty new moons of Saturn have been discovered,
Popular MechanicsSpace Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Cosmology, Exoplanet ResearchersPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanThis year's winners have “painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we could ever have imagined.” The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three people—physical cosmologist
Popular MechanicsSpace We Now Have a Good Idea When Martian Oceans Started DyingPopular Mechanics - By John WenzCuriosity discovered salty deposits that point to a time when the atmosphere was in decline—and it was taking the seas along with it. Perhaps you've heard it many times already — there's water on Mars.
Popular MechanicsSpace Let's Think About Using Hot Air Balloons to Get to SpacePopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanThe idea is surprisingly old school. This company wants to modernize it. The second space race is in full effect. And while well-heeled organizations like SpaceX and Blue Origin often hog the headlines,
Popular MechanicsSpace The 20 Biggest Space Missions of the Next DecadePopular Mechanics - By Daisy Hernandez and Jennifer LemanA look at what's to come as we continue to explore the vast expanse of the cosmos. It can be tough to keep up with everything humanity is sending skyward, so we created a list of 20 missions so you can
Popular MechanicsSpace Strange Fireballs Soared Across Chile's Skies. They Weren't Meteorites.Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanLast week, residents of the island of Chiloe in southern Chile were startled to see several bright red objects streak across the sky. Once these flaming objects struck the ground, they allegedly sparked
Popular MechanicsSpace Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About Martian MoonsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanNo planet holds as much intrigue for humans as Mars. The Red Planet has played an outsized role in the human imagination ever since H.G Wells imagined it as home base to an alien race determined to conquer
Popular MechanicsSpace Listen as NASA's InSight Lander Works on MarsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanMartian weather affects everything, including what humans put on the planet. NASA has released a set of sounds which the Agency's InSight lander has recorded on the surface of Mars. The sounds were captured
Popular MechanicsSpace Exploration 10 Rocket Launch Failures That Changed HistoryPopular Mechanics - By Joe PappalardoEveryone’s heard the mantra "space is hard." These 10 launch disasters show how many things can go wrong. Launching rockets to space is a high-stakes, unforgiving business, with razor-thin margins between
Popular MechanicsSpace If Planet 9 Is Actually a Black Hole, It Completely Changes How We Understand Our UniversePopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanAnd get this: The thing could be smaller than a soccer ball. Strange things are happening at the edge of our solar system. A number of large rocky bodies, mostly asteroids and comets in the Kuiper Belt,
Popular MechanicsSpace Elon Musk Reveals SpaceX's New Starship, the Rocket Bound for MarsPopular Mechanics - By Joe PappalardoAt an event in Deep South Texas, the billionaire rocketeer reveals details of his Mars bound rocket program. Boca Chica Beach, Texas — The rocket ship stands gleaming in the South Texas sunset, the dark
Popular MechanicsElon Musk Watch Elon Musk Reveal the Next-Gen Starship Right HerePopular Mechanics - By Darren OrfSpaceX hopes this is the ship that'll put bootprints on Mars. Tonight in Boca Chica, Texas, Elon Musk and SpaceX are going to reveal the next-generation Starship, the spacecraft the company hopes will
Popular MechanicsScience (India) NASA Didn't Find India's Missing Vikram LanderPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanThe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flew over the proposed landing site, but images came up blank. NASA released images taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter today of the Vikram Lander’s crash site. lander,
Popular MechanicsSolar System The Best Volcanoes in Our Solar System, RankedPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanFrom Venus to Pluto, here's a ranking of the 10 best volcanoes—active or inactive—in the solar system. Across our solar system, only four celestial bodies—Earth, Io, Triton and Enceladus—are thought to
Popular MechanicsSpace Here's What a Solar Eclipse Looks Like on JupiterPopular MechanicsLast week, Jupiter's moon, Io, slipped between the gas giant and our sun. Luckily, NASA's Juno spacecraft was there to capture all the action. Juno has been monitoring the gas giant for roughly three and
Popular MechanicsSpace The Universe Might Be 2 Billion Years Younger Than We ThoughtPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanResearchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany now believe that the universe is actually 2 billion years younger than we previously thought. Based on observations noting the universe's recent rapid
Popular MechanicsComets An Exclusive Image of the Interstellar Comet That Stunned AstronomersPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer Leman• Astronomers are celebrating new images of the interstellar comet that was discovered zipping through our solar system last month. • A new image of comet C/2019 Q4, taken by the Nordic Optical Telescope
Popular MechanicsSpace What Happens If an Astronaut Dies in Space?Popular Mechanics - By Caitlin DoughtyThis is an excerpt from the new book, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs, published by W. W. Norton & Company. Like the vast reaches of space, the fate of an astronaut corpse is uncharted territory. So far, individual
Popular MechanicsSpace China's Enormous Radio Telescope Is Already Picking Up Mysterious SignalsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanThe Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), a project that the Chinese government first began planning in 2008, is now fully operational. By the end of September 2019, the $171 million
Popular MechanicsNeutron Stars Astronomers Observe the Most Massive Neutron Star EverPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanIt's 15 miles across, with a mass of more than twice the sun. Astronomers using the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia have observed the most massive neutron star ever measured. The newly discovered
Popular Mechanics That Big Black Hole of Ours Sure Is Getting HungryPopular Mechanics - By David Grossman"It's usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don't know what is driving this big feast." It's easy to forget, so as a reminder: There's a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky
Popular Mechanics On Friday the 13th, See a Full 'Micromoon' TonightPopular Mechanics - By Daisy HernandezFriday the 13th is already creepy enough, but tonight brings a rare, extra wrinkle to the spooky spot on the calendar: a full harvest Micromoon. Here's what that means—and how to see it. Tonight's full
Popular Mechanics Saturn Is Still StunningPopular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanNot that there was ever any question. But hey, would you look at those rings? A new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope has provided yet another beautiful view of our solar system’s famed fifth The
Popular Mechanics Why Astronauts Are Growing Cement in SpacePopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanIf the stuff can harden in the microgravity of the ISS, imagine where else it could work. Establishing a permanent human footing on any other planetary world, like Mars or the moon, is a proposition fraught
Popular MechanicsSpace We Just Found Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of a Potentially Habitable ExoplanetPopular Mechanics - By John WenzK2-18b isn't a perfect spot for life, but it's a good start toward learning more about habitable planets around small stars. First, the good news: We've found water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet
Popular Mechanics Richard Branson's Plans for Space Tourism Sure Are AggressivePopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanMove aside, Musk. Within four years, the Virgin honcho wants to send people to space every 32 hours. The launch into commercial space travel will be an aggressive one, if Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic
Popular Mechanics Why Is It So Damn Hard to Land on the Moon?Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer LemanAfter India failed to safely land on the lunar surface at the last minute—the latest mission to just miss the mark—space travel remains as tantalizingly tough as ever. Millions watched Friday as India
Popular Mechanics NASA Stumped by Weird Green BlobsPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanWhile studying a supernova in the distant Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946), a NASA space observatory has observed extremely bright sources of X-ray light that resulted in dazzling flashes of blue and green.
