Very cool! SpaceX is moving ahead with plans to colonize Mars with construction of a ship that will supposedly take as many as 100 people at a time. They've already begun development of the 9-Raptor (huge!) engine to power the reusable craft, though it's not expected...
"NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s - goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010." VERY cool article about what the next...
Tonight and tomorrow night will be peak viewing time for this year's Lyrid meteor shower! Read all about it at EarthSky.
The recent Blood Moon created by the lunar eclipse looked a lot like Mars would up close, don't you think? Of course, right now Mars itself is more visible than usual in the night sky, since it's at a fairly close point in its orbit, respective to Earth's. This would...
In STARSTRUCK, at one point Rigel impresses Marsha with a telescope that can easily see Leda, a very small moon of Jupiter. Rigel is in turn impressed that Marsha knows so much about this obscure celestial body, to include that it wasn’t discovered until 1974. ...
How cool is this? ? Cornell senior Georgia Crowther is Team Leader of Cornell's Mars Rover club and co-founder of their Rapid Prototyping Lab. She and her team have designed a mock Mars Rover, the Ares 2014. She's been learning all the engineering "on the job," so to...
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