Space

Watch Live: NASA and SpaceX Make Second Attempt to Launch Planet-Hunting TESS [Update: Launch Successful]

Update, April 18, 7:05pm: NASA launched the TESS spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:51pm local time, hitting its 30-second launch window. The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic ocean. It marked the 24th time the company has successfully recovered one of its rockets,…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 18

Relive These Scientists’ Year Inside a Simulated Mars on a Hawaiian Volcano With This New Podcast

An igloo-looking habitat sits on a volcano’s rocky soil. Six astronauts have been living there isolated for months, doing geologic field work. It takes around twenty minutes for any message to travel between the habitat and Earth. Except the habitat is on Earth—it’s the Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), sitting 8,200 feet above…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 17

NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Satellite Is Ready to Launch on Monday

NASA’s TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will launch on Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, if everything goes to plan. People are excited. The first confirmed planets outside of our own solar system were only discovered around 25 years ago. Since then, missions including Kepler and K2 have…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 13

Fox News: Either Planet X Will Kill Us All on April 23rd or the Rapture Can Happen Any Time, Take Your Pick

Silly fringe theories about Planet X—an imagined planet typically named Nibiru that is on course to hit or pass by Earth with disastrous consequences—are the kind of thing normally relegated to vanity press-published books or those tabloids you browse in the supermarket checkout aisle. On Wednesday, they made it into Fox News, with the added…

Sploid Tom McKay Apr 12

This Single Image Profoundly Sums Up Einstein’s Landmark Theory

You might think you have gravity pretty well figured out. If you drop a ball out of a window, a short time later it will hit the ground. The higher up you drop it, the faster it travels before it hits the ground. But something far more profound is going on, and it’s nicely illustrated by…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 10

The Meteorite Hunters Who Trade in Precious Space Debris

On January 16th 2018, a bright flash lit up the sky over Michigan, accompanied by a loud boom. Caught on dash cams and home surveillance systems, the meteor briefly turned night to day as it streaked to the ground at almost 36,000 miles per hour, causing a blast wave equivalent to a minor earthquake. By…

Space & Spaceflight Mary Halton Apr 10

Please Enjoy This Compilation of NASA Test Dummies Having Their Day Ruined

NASA test dummies go through a lot so humans don’t have to. They get used for brutal impact tests, and sometimes said tests don’t go so well… for the dummies, not necessarily the scientists. Courtesy of NASA’s Langley Research Center, here’s some footage of recent tests involving dummies that have been stuffed full of sensors and…

Sploid Tom McKay Apr 8

The Universe Is Not in Danger of Ending From a Higgs Boson Vacuum Bubble

There are few easier ways to get people to read your website than to scare them. That’s how we ended up with the media frenzy surrounding Tiangong-1, and it’s why InfoWars continues to exist. It’s also how we’ve ended up with folks telling you the universe is due to end. Heck, we’re guilty ourselves. Our…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 5

Buzz Buzz, NASA Funds Project to Put Bee Robots on Mars

I can’t beelieve it! Maybe one day there will be bee-like robots buzzing around the surface of Mars. NASA has selected 25 proposals to receive funding as part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. Each award amounts to around $125,000. But as a website that’s always been a fan of small ideas, we quite…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 4

Scientists Make Enormous Map of the Early Universe to See What Our Galaxy Looked Like as a Baby

How do we find a tiny shred of self-understanding in this vast universe? More simply: how did we get here? A proper map could help us answer this question. And a map scientists are making. A team of researchers in Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States have presented a new map…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 4

Scientists Used Galaxies as Magnifying Lenses to See Individual Stars Billions of Light-Years Away

When you look up into the night sky, you see lots of stars—but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy. With the help of some spacetime-warping science, though, our eyes can now peer much deeper into distant space. Two teams of scientists report seeing single, twinkling stars in galaxies billions of…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Apr 2

Tiangong-1 Is Now Predicted to Hit Earth at 7:30pm ET Sunday, Give or Take Up to Seven Hours [Updated]

Forecasts from the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office and the US-based Aerospace Corp. predict that China’s falling space station, the Tiangong-1, will most likely plummet to Earth on Sunday night at around 730pm ET. [See update below.] The craft was originally thought likely to crash as early as Saturday . Per Space.com, estimates of…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Mar 31

So, About the Satellite That’s About to Crash Into Earth…

I love clicks as much as the next online journalist. I love that there is an uncertain thing happening, with infinite angles to write about and to scare people with. But as the Chinese Tiangong-1 satellite nears its final descent to Earth this weekend, I need to remind you: It’s not a big deal. That…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 29

Holy Crap, This Galaxy Has No Dark Matter

From what scientists have gathered, galaxies are nearly synonymous with dark matter. They seem to be mostly dark matter with specks of regular matter mixed in. Despite the fact that no dark matter has been directly observed with science experiments, galaxies’ strange motion is the knock-out reason why astronomers think the universe is filled with…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 28

NASA Delays Flagship Space Telescope Mission Once Again

Is this dang telescope ever going to launch? NASA has announced that, once again, it will be pushing back the launch date of the much-anticipated James Webb Space Telescope. Just a few months ago, NASA announced in a press release that it would push the launch back, from late 2018 to early 2019. Now, the…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 27

Here Is FEMA’s Plan If the Falling Chinese Satellite Takes Aim at a US City

China’s defunct space station Tiangong-1 will soon plummet toward Earth, likely this weekend. You will almost certainly not be harmed in any way by it—the odds of it striking an individual person are worse than winning the lottery or being struck by lightning. You should not worry about it. But we’re humans. We’re all probably…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 27

Relive the Pain of This Week’s Awful Snowstorm With This Satellite GIF

My apologies to anyone who doesn’t happen to live in the Northeastern United States. I don’t want you to feel bad for us. But I do want you to recognize the fact that we’ve been walloped with four enormous snowstorms in three weeks. Adding insult to injury, the most recent one occurred the day after…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 23

Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium

Admit it, you don’t really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth’s outer core is creating a electric current, generating a magnetic field through it. But what’s causing this movement? There’s tons that scientists still don’t know about our planet’s magnetosphere, and about planetary magnetic fields in general. There…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 23

Six Months After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s Famous Telescope Is Still Under Threat

ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO—The drive to the Arecibo Observatory from San Juan is breathtaking in both beauty and treachery. The hour-long journey follows a roller-coaster-like path of humps and switchbacks through the dense tropical forest on what should be, but is not, a one-way road. Houses remain covered in tarps, awaiting repairs to their storm-ravaged roofs, and…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 22

12 Incredible New Images of Galaxies and Nebulae from the Hubble Telescope

Look up to the sky with the unaided eye and you’ll see lots of specks and globs that look mostly like stars. On closer inspection, though, some of those dots refuse to resolve, smeared out on the night sky. Famed astronomer Charles Messier noticed these objects while studying comets—indeed, they looked like comments standing still…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 20

Watch Live: NASA and SpaceX Make Second Attempt to Launch Planet-Hunting TESS [Update: Launch Successful]

Relive These Scientists’ Year Inside a Simulated Mars on a Hawaiian Volcano With This New Podcast

NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Satellite Is Ready to Launch on Monday

Fox News: Either Planet X Will Kill Us All on April 23rd or the Rapture Can Happen Any Time, Take Your Pick

This Single Image Profoundly Sums Up Einstein’s Landmark Theory

The Meteorite Hunters Who Trade in Precious Space Debris

Please Enjoy This Compilation of NASA Test Dummies Having Their Day Ruined

The Universe Is Not in Danger of Ending From a Higgs Boson Vacuum Bubble

Buzz Buzz, NASA Funds Project to Put Bee Robots on Mars

Scientists Make Enormous Map of the Early Universe to See What Our Galaxy Looked Like as a Baby

Scientists Used Galaxies as Magnifying Lenses to See Individual Stars Billions of Light-Years Away

Tiangong-1 Is Now Predicted to Hit Earth at 7:30pm ET Sunday, Give or Take Up to Seven Hours [Updated]

So, About the Satellite That’s About to Crash Into Earth…

Holy Crap, This Galaxy Has No Dark Matter

NASA Delays Flagship Space Telescope Mission Once Again

Here Is FEMA’s Plan If the Falling Chinese Satellite Takes Aim at a US City

Relive the Pain of This Week’s Awful Snowstorm With This Satellite GIF

Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium

Six Months After Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s Famous Telescope Is Still Under Threat

12 Incredible New Images of Galaxies and Nebulae from the Hubble Telescope

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