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Everyone Relax, NASA Solved The Problem With Its Pluto Probe

Yesterday afternoon, NASA lost contact with its New Horizons spacecraft for an hour for reasons unknown. This is generally not a good thing when you’re working with technology that’s 4.5 light hours away, but thankfully, NASA seems to have solved the problem. According to NASA, the problem was caused by a “hard-to-detect timing flaw in…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

A Runaway Star Makes An Interstellar Bow Wave

Zeta Ophiuchi zooms through interstellar space at 24 kilometers per second, pushing a bow wave of glowing gas and dust 12 light-years wide in front of it. The Spitzer space telescope created this false-color infrared image of the runaway star and its bow wave. Zeta Ophiuchi is a young blue star about 19 times the…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

The International Space Station Finally Gets New Supplies

Russia’s unmanned Progress M-28M vehicle docked with the International Space Station today, just week after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded, destroying its payload of supplies and science experiments bound for ISS. The spacecraft brought fresh supplies to the space station’s crew, including astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, who are spending a full year…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

That’s No Moon, It’s a Rock Band

Last week, classic rock band Styx met the man who named a moon after them – well, sort of. Pluto’s smallest moon, Styx, is really named after a mythological river, in keeping with International Astronomical Union naming conventions. But the SETI institute’s Mark Showalter, who discovered Styx (the moon) in 2012, says he’s been a…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

The Pluto Probe Went Into Safe Mode, And We Don’t Know Why

The New Horizons spacecraft is rapidly soaring closer to Pluto for our first flyby of the distant almost-planet. But something went wrong on Saturday afternoon, knocking the probe out of communication for over an hour. Now we’re back in touch and trying to figure out what happened. The facts so far are sparse: the New…

Space & Spaceflight Mika McKinnon

Check Out Russia’s New Spaceport Being Built

Preparing to abandon Baikonur, Roscosmos, Russia’s Federal Space Agency is knee deep in building their new spaceport, called the Vostochny Cosmodrome (Eastern Spaceport) in the Russian Far East. According to the plans, when completed, the Vostochny Cosmodrome is going to reduce Russia’s dependency on Kazakhstan, owner of the Baikonur Cosmodrome where the first man was…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

Navigational Data Produced A Beautiful Image of the Milky Way

The European Space Agency built this image of the Milky Way using routine data from its Gaia satellite. Since 2013, Gaia has orbited 163,000 to 439,000 miles above Earth, on a mission to catalog a billion stars and create a massive 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy, which astronomers will use to study how…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Enjoy This Throwback Fireworks Display from NASA

When it comes to fireworks, NASA doesn’t play around. A decade ago, they crashed a probe into a comet just to watch the cosmic display, and now they’ve turned that moment into a Vine. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day NASA’s Deep Impact probe smashed into the surface of Comet Tempel-1 at 22,800…

Space & Spaceflight Kiona Smith-Strickland

Smelling Cat Urine Turns Baby Mice Into Willing Victims

The war between cats and mice just took a chilling turn, as a team of Russian researchers announces that early exposure to a chemical in cat urine can condition mice not to flee from an approaching cat. This can’t end well for the mice. Cat urine contains a chemical compound called L-Felinine, and mice have…

Biology Kiona Smith-Strickland

Last Night’s Routine Rocket Launch Was Thankfully Routine

Last night saw the launch of a resupply mission to the ISS atop a Russian Progress rocket — a pretty routine event (as far as firing things into low-earth orbit will ever be routine), but an important one given recent events. Thankfully, it seems like everything went fine and nothing exploded this time around. Carrying…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

Photographer Catches the ISS Flying Past the Moon

Using a little bit of math and a lot of patience, anyone can watch the International Space Station go flying past the Moon. And if you’ve got a DSLR and a telescope handy, you can save that moment in a stunning photo. Amateur photographer Dylan O’Donnellcaptured the image above of the ISS transiting the moon…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

After String of Failures, Tonight’s Russian Rocket Launch Really Counts

Russian rocket launches don’t get nearly as much play as, say, a SpaceX launch. But in light of recent events, the Soyuz rocket blasting into orbit at 12:55 AM EST tonight, which will carry a spacecraft loaded with food and supplies to the International Space Station, is more important than usual. The eight-ton Russian Progress…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

New Film Takes a Close Look at the Biology and Culture of Penises

The Atlantic just released a short clip from The Dickumentary: A Short History of the Penis, a new documentary about penises from filmmaker Sofian Khan. The Dickumentatry explores the biology and culture of the penis, and Kahn interviews more than 40 experts from 14 countries on topics ranging from penis evolution and physiology, to phallus…

Biology Diane Kelly

What Are the Strange Spots on These Brand New Images of Pluto?

New color images acquired by NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft show us Pluto as we’ve never seen it before—and on its surface appear to be a series of giant spots that scientists can not yet explain. NASA researchers have identified a series of spots along the dwarf planet’s equator. Each one is about 300 miles across…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

The Tech That’ll Save Us From An Apocalyptic Asteroid Looks Awesome

In celebration of World Asteroid Day this week, scientists came out of the woodwork to explain to all the different ways we can prevent an asteroid from causing an Armageddon-level apocalypse. The European Space Agency used the occasion to promote its proposed Asteroid Impact Mission, which would study how an asteroid’s trajectory could be altered…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Scientists Are Perfecting the LED Lighting For Our Future Space Gardens

Gardens may be an unruly mess on Earth, but in space, we’ll need our vegetable patches to run like well-oiled machines. That’s why researchers at Purdue University are working out the scientifically perfect cocktail of LED light to grow bumper crops in total confinement. “Everything on Earth is ultimately driven by sunlight and photosynthesis,” said…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

17 Apollo Missions Paved the Way For This Space Capsule Tea Infuser

We don’t have a moon colony yet and the space station isn’t exactly tourist-ready, but if you needed one good reason why those 17 Apollo missions were worth every last penny, it’s that they inspired this wonderful space capsule tea infuser. The perforated capsule holds your tea grounds with a screw-off bottom so it’s easy…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski

Rosetta’s Comet Is Developing Giant Sinkholes Before Our Eyes

Watch your step, Philae! 67P, the comet we landed a space probe on last fall, is apparently riddled with sinkholes. And as the massive ball of ice and dust hurls itself toward the sun, its surface is continuing to evolve. That, at least, is the latest fascinating comet discovery to make its way to Earth…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Can Lightning Strike an Indoor Pool?

Two swimming pool weather policies have surprised me in recent years. One was when I showed up to swim laps at an outdoor pool as it was beginning to drizzle. “Come on in,” I was told; as long as there was no lightning, the pool was still open. So I had one of my weirdest…

Physics & Chemistry Beth Skwarecki

How Bigger Atoms Could Help Make Smaller “Lab-on-a-Chip” Devices

“Lab-on-a-chip” devices – which can carry out several laboratory functions on a single, micro-sized chip – are the result of a quiet scientific revolution over the past few years. For example, they enable doctors to make complex diagnoses instantly from a single drop of blood. In the future, shrinking such devices to extremely small sizes,…

Physics & Chemistry Rodrigo Ledesma Aguilar

Everyone Relax, NASA Solved The Problem With Its Pluto Probe

A Runaway Star Makes An Interstellar Bow Wave

The International Space Station Finally Gets New Supplies

That’s No Moon, It’s a Rock Band

The Pluto Probe Went Into Safe Mode, And We Don’t Know Why

Check Out Russia’s New Spaceport Being Built

Navigational Data Produced A Beautiful Image of the Milky Way

Enjoy This Throwback Fireworks Display from NASA

Smelling Cat Urine Turns Baby Mice Into Willing Victims

Last Night’s Routine Rocket Launch Was Thankfully Routine

Photographer Catches the ISS Flying Past the Moon

After String of Failures, Tonight’s Russian Rocket Launch Really Counts

New Film Takes a Close Look at the Biology and Culture of Penises

What Are the Strange Spots on These Brand New Images of Pluto?

The Tech That’ll Save Us From An Apocalyptic Asteroid Looks Awesome

Scientists Are Perfecting the LED Lighting For Our Future Space Gardens

17 Apollo Missions Paved the Way For This Space Capsule Tea Infuser

Rosetta’s Comet Is Developing Giant Sinkholes Before Our Eyes

Can Lightning Strike an Indoor Pool?

How Bigger Atoms Could Help Make Smaller “Lab-on-a-Chip” Devices

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