Space & Spaceflight

This Space Museum in Central Kansas Was Worth the 20 Hour Drive

Hutchinson, Kansas isn’t the kind of place you’d wind up if you weren’t looking to. The placid prairie town sits a solid hour’s drive south of I-70, the interstate that most travelers use to blow across 425 miles of Kansas cornfield and cattle pasture as quickly as possible. But as soon as I entered the…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Four Terrifying Ways Space Can Kill You

We’re all clamoring to get into space these days, but lost in our excitement to fly to the Moon and colonize Mars is a brutal truth: the final frontier is a cold, inhospitable wasteland that’ll kill you at the first opportunity it gets. Astronauts already know this, but for the rest of us, here are…

Space & Spaceflight Anthony Wood

A Mysterious Mars-Sized Object Could Be Hiding at the Edge of Our Solar System

It’s been about 11 years since Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status, leaving a 1,473 mile (2,370 kilometers)-size void in our hearts. Since then, the hunt for Planet X—aptly renamed Planet 9—has grown into an international movement to find such an object in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. Now, scientists Kat Volk and…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

NASA Finds 10 More Planets Humanity Might Be Able to Ruin Next

Humanity hasn’t done a ton of good in our short stint on Earth, though we’ve definitely succeeded at turning this planet into a trash pit of despair. Today, researchers from NASA’s Kepler space telescope team announced we might get to bring our garbage party to another planet—perhaps a bunch of them. The Kepler team has…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Russian Rocket Launch Ignites Killer Grass Fire

A large grass fire triggered by a Russian rocket launch on Wednesday has killed one Kazakh man and hospitalized another. According to the AFP, pieces of the rocket fell to Earth after it launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome—the site where Sputnik 1 took off in 1957. Incredibly, the debris set off a fire that spread…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Space Turned This Flatworm Into a Two-Headed Cutie

While space can destroy us in myriad ways, it’s never been credited with making anything more adorable. That’s all changed now thanks to an experiment in which researchers at Tufts University sent flatworms to the International Space Station (ISS). Microgravity seems to have impacted the creepy-crawlies in some seriously cute ways, even turning one worm…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Jupiter Now Has 69 Moons (Nice)

Jupiter has just delivered the news we desperately need right now. In addition to being the biggest, oldest planet in the solar system, it turns out Jupe has been hiding two moons from us all these years. Recently, a group of astronomers spotted the pair of wayward satellites, bringing the number of Jupiter’s known moons…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Watch Live Tonight as NASA Makes Colorful Fake Clouds [Updated]

Stargazers on the East Coast of the US will get a special spectral treat tonight as NASA prepares its sixth attempt at a rocket launch. Later this evening, the space agency will create artificial, colorful clouds as a way to study auroras and the ionosphere. According to NASA, the most recent attempt on June 11th…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Jupiter Is a Swole Grandpa

Of the eight planets in our solar system, Jupiter is indubitably the most swole. It is large, with a radius of 43,440 miles (69,911 kilometers). It also has a bit of a rage problem, as the planet’s constantly shifting storms are notoriously chaotic. While the Jovian origin story has always been a bit of a…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Baking in Space Is About to Be the Most Delicious Experiment

Living in space is rife with challenges, among them, grappling with a gaping void of loneliness and dealing with a subpar food selection. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have the unique torture of being so close to Earth, yet so far away from all its tasty delights. But one German company is determined…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

NASA Astronaut Explains How to Drink Space Coffee: ‘Suck the Balls’

In space, it is crucial for even the most basic of human tasks to be carried out with a high degree of skill and for astronauts to remain alert. That is why Air Force Colonel and ISS crewmember Jack Fischer sucks the balls. “I love coffee on Earth, it’s pretty much my favorite thing,” explained…

Space & Spaceflight Avery Ellis

Humans Heading to Mars Could Face a Disturbingly High Cancer Risk

Practically everyone who likes space and has lots of money is trying to get to Mars in the near future. But before anyone reaches the Red Planet, there are plenty of concerns to mull over, most notably that our bodies were not built to live in a barren litter box with a thin atmosphere. But…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Here’s Everyone NASA Felt Was Better Than You

NASA’s astronauts are American heroes and proxies for our hopes and dreams. The best part of each new astronaut class is that we get an entirely fresh crop of people we can live vicariously through, and this year is no exception. Today, NASA announced its 22nd space squad. Although over 18,000 applied, the space agency…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Proposed Trump Budget Would Kill Program That Monitors Debilitating Solar Storms

The idea that a huge solar storm could wreak havoc here on Earth isn’t just a sci-fi plot, it’s a situation that countries and power grids around the world actively prepare for. But the Trump Administration’s latest 2017 budget proposal would completely eliminate the program that keeps the continental US under 24/7 protection from this…

Space & Spaceflight Bryson Masse

NASA Lit a Fire in Space Again Because at This Point Sure Why Not

The only thing better than lighting a fire in space is lighting a fire in space again—and again! On Sunday, June 4th, the pyromaniacal hooligans at NASA successfully performed their third Spacecraft Fire Experiment (SAFFIRE) inside an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft. Lighting up in space—which sounds wildly irresponsible—will actually help scientists prepare astronauts for deep…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Sex in Space

People have been boning on Earth since the dawn of time, literally everywhere they can. Folks bone on beaches, in airplanes, and even volcanoes—you name it, someone’s probably gotten off there. The only place humans have (probably) never banged in is space, which, to some, makes it the final frontier of sexual conquest. Microgravity sexing…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Rock-Balancing Robots Could Build Our Future Habitats On Mars

Like maintaining a zen garden, or pruning a bonsai tree, some people stack and balance rocks as a way to relax. But robots don’t really experience emotional stress, so why bother teaching a bot to balance rocks? One day, this robot’s skills could prove invaluable when it comes to building structures on distant worlds we’re…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski

This Freakishly Hot Exoplanet Is Totally Screwed

Approximately 650 light-years away, a Jupiter-like planet is caught in an uncomfortably tight orbit around its toasty hot host star. Featuring a dayside temperature of 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit, this unfortunate planet is literally vaporizing, and it has sprouted a distinctly comet-like tail. Astronomers say the planet—the hottest giant exoplanet ever discovered—is not long for this…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

India Just Launched Its Giant ‘Monster’ Rocket

It’s a big day for India and its very, very large rocket: Today, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched its 640 ton GSLV-Mk III rocket, carrying the GSAT-19 communications satellite on it. The GSLV-Mk III’s maiden voyage brought its satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit above Earth’s equator—a high Earth orbit that allows…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Neptune’s Rings Are Tragically Underrated

Saturn’s rings are easy to love. They’re hauntingly beautiful reminders of how insignificant we are in the scope of the universe. But they also unfairly outshine the rest of the gas giants’ ring systems. Uranus, for example, is a wonderland encompassed by at least 13 rings. Jupiter’s got its own ghostly rings, too. But perhaps…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

This Space Museum in Central Kansas Was Worth the 20 Hour Drive

Four Terrifying Ways Space Can Kill You

A Mysterious Mars-Sized Object Could Be Hiding at the Edge of Our Solar System

NASA Finds 10 More Planets Humanity Might Be Able to Ruin Next

Russian Rocket Launch Ignites Killer Grass Fire

Space Turned This Flatworm Into a Two-Headed Cutie

Jupiter Now Has 69 Moons (Nice)

Watch Live Tonight as NASA Makes Colorful Fake Clouds [Updated]

Jupiter Is a Swole Grandpa

Baking in Space Is About to Be the Most Delicious Experiment

NASA Astronaut Explains How to Drink Space Coffee: ‘Suck the Balls’

Humans Heading to Mars Could Face a Disturbingly High Cancer Risk

Here’s Everyone NASA Felt Was Better Than You

Proposed Trump Budget Would Kill Program That Monitors Debilitating Solar Storms

NASA Lit a Fire in Space Again Because at This Point Sure Why Not

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Sex in Space

Rock-Balancing Robots Could Build Our Future Habitats On Mars

This Freakishly Hot Exoplanet Is Totally Screwed

India Just Launched Its Giant ‘Monster’ Rocket

Neptune’s Rings Are Tragically Underrated

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