Space

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has Toxic Booze On Its Breath

You think you have it rough because you spent the weekend eating tequila-soaked watermelon? That’s Juicy Juice compared to what Saturn’s moon Enceladus has been steeping itself in. Astronomers have spotted the organic molecule methanol surrounding the icy moon. Methanol, in case you forgot, is a highly toxic form of alcohol that can literally leave you…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Shooting the Moon With a Game Boy Camera Is Really Hard

By modern standards the Nintendo Game Boy Camera is crap. It takes 2-bit 128×112 pixel photos in crisp black and white. Intended to be viewed on the simple display of a Game Boy, the images the Game Boy Camera takes are always super pixelated and often require squinting just to figure out what the heck…

Space & Spaceflight Alex Cranz

Bummer: Giant Asteroids Not An Immediate Threat

Every few months, a journalist asks a scientist about the looming threat of Armageddon. That scientist’s quotes are then predictably blown out of proportion and turned into some iteration of “The End Is Nigh.” In light of Asteroid Day, which is today, we’d like to clarify some of the apocalyptic misinformation that’s spreading. As badly…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Watch a Simulated Asteroid Hit the Atmosphere at 45,000 Miles Per Hour

Four years ago, an asteroid the size of a city bus screamed across the skies of Chelyabinsk, Russia, shattering glass around a 60 mile perimeter and sending 1,200 people to hospitals with related injuries. In an effort to learn more about these rare but dangerous encounters with objects from space, NASA has used a supercomputer…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Saturn’s Hexagonal Storm Is Pure Chaotic Beauty In New Cassini Images

Cassini’s last hurrah has been so bittersweet: On the one hand, it marks the end of a 20-year-long journey to explore Saturn and its moons. But the Grand Finale has also featured some of the most spectacular shots of the gas giant and its moons ever taken. It’s a complex cocktail of emotions. Today, the…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Can Gecko Feet Help Us Clean Up Space Junk?

There’s a crapload of debris orbiting our planet and potentially posing a hazard to our astronauts and our satellites. One estimate says there are 21,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimeters, that could collide with other objects at velocities ten times faster than a bullet. How do we get it down? You can’t…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Do Not Be Alarmed By NASA’s Eerie Artificial Clouds

In news that is sure to vindicate chemtrail truthers, NASA has finally delivered on its longstanding promise to produce a dazzling display of artificial clouds. And dang, was it cool. On Thursday, June 29th, at 4:25 am Eastern time, a two stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket blasted skyward from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. During…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

The Best Place to View the Total Solar Eclipse This Summer, According to Science

By now we’ve all heard the biggest news of 2017, fated in the heavens for eons before humanity’s earliest ancestors walked the savannahs: There’s an eclipse this August 21st, and it’s carving a path right through these great United States of America. GO GET IT NERDS. Being both a meteorologist and an astronomy buff, and…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Holthaus

NASA: You Could Probably Make Wine In Space

As humanity expands to become a multi-planetary species, some important questions must be considered: Can we bring cats? What about dogs? Also, can we make wine in space? Thankfully, some scientists are hard at work answering the first two questions—and now, a scientist from NASA’s Vegetable Production System called “Veggie” says space viticulture might be…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Uranus Is Even Freakier Than We Thought

If David Lynch designed a planet, it would be Uranus. Much like every episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, Uranus is fiercely unique and weirdly endearing, even though it makes no fucking sense. The planet’s spin axis is 98 degrees, so it essentially rotates on its side—and while we have some idea as to what…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

SpaceX Fans: This Is Your Super Bowl Weekend

Over the last few months, SpaceX has out-SpaceX-ed itself in the best way possible: it’s launched an already used rocket into orbit (and landed it), ferried up a spy satellite, and even flown a recycled Dragon spacecraft. But this weekend, the aerospace company will tackle a new challenge: two launches within 48 hours. It’s nerd…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

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

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has Toxic Booze On Its Breath

Shooting the Moon With a Game Boy Camera Is Really Hard

Bummer: Giant Asteroids Not An Immediate Threat

Watch a Simulated Asteroid Hit the Atmosphere at 45,000 Miles Per Hour

Saturn’s Hexagonal Storm Is Pure Chaotic Beauty In New Cassini Images

Can Gecko Feet Help Us Clean Up Space Junk?

Do Not Be Alarmed By NASA’s Eerie Artificial Clouds

The Best Place to View the Total Solar Eclipse This Summer, According to Science

NASA: You Could Probably Make Wine In Space

Uranus Is Even Freakier Than We Thought

SpaceX Fans: This Is Your Super Bowl Weekend

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

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