What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? NASA’s Juno Spacecraft is About to Find Out
The Great Red Spot has been a fixture in Jupiter’s clouds for at least 350 years. Maybe longer. The huge spot is still ‘Great,’ but not as great as…
Mars’ Soil is Another Strike Against Life as We Know It
Mars is a barren, cold wasteland. But, it’s also the closest planet to home. And the easiest place to hunt for answers to the ultimate science question. Are we…
A SpaceX Dragon Capsule Went To the ISS and Back Again for the Second Time (UPDATE)
SpaceX’s CRS-11 mission had plenty of history behind it. It was the first time the private space company launched a reusable Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS).…
Why NASA’s Creating Colorful Fake Clouds Above the Mid-Atlantic Tonight (UPDATING)
A Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket is expected to fire off the launch pad from the Wallops Flight Facility (in Virginia) at just 9:00 pm ET tonight. It won’t be…
Finally, a SpaceX Drone Ship Landing Without the Live Feed Going Dark
SpaceX is making it look easy, but watching a rocket launch never gets old. Every time I see the first stage of the Falcon 9 come back through the…
Some Icy Rock Orbits in Kuiper Belt Suggest Another Planet Lurks Out There
A planet between the size of Mars and Earth may orbit the vast icy darkness beyond Pluto. This isn’t the hypothetical Planet Nine that would explain the orbits of…
A Spectacular Look at the Curiosity Rover From Space
You see that tiny blue dot sticking out amidst sand and rock bathed in shades of red and brown? That’s NASA’s Curiosity rover trucking up the lower part of…
Double the SpaceX Fun This Weekend
Two launches. Two landings. Within two days. Yep, that’s a lot more work than I plan on doing this weekend. SpaceX launch personnel will be a busy bunch this…
Kepler’s Final Tally Of Planets After Staring At 160,000 Stars Is In
For Kepler’s first four years, it stared at a patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation. As it trailed behind Earth’s on its yearly trip around the sun, Kepler…
A New Radio Survey Only Makes Sense if All Stars Are Born With a Twin
600 light years away is a cloud full of star stuff dubbed the Perseus molecular cloud. A new radio survey of this cloud could have big implications for the…
Plan Your Total Solar Eclipse Trip With This Handy Tool
Skywatchers are giddy with anticipation as August 21 gets closer and closer. Supermoons, strawberry moons and meteor showers are nothing compared to the total solar eclipse that will cut…
Jupiter’s Moon Count Gets a Little Bigger
Astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen and Chadwick Trujillo were not hunting for new Jupiter moons. The trio were conducting a survey looking far beyond Jupiter and past the Kuiper…
Watch a Weather Balloon Catch an Airbus A319 Flyby
Ever looked out the window of an Airbus at 38,000 feet and wondered; what does it look like from the outside? No? Same here, but luckily the folks at…
Another SpaceX Mission, Another Reusable Falcon 9 Rocket
10 Iridium communications satellites shook atop a Falcon 9 rocket as it climbed into the skies above southern California in mid-January. The mission was a huge mental win for…
The Brightest Galaxies Were Churning Out 10,000 Stars a Year
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is at it again with a discovery dating back more than 8 billion years ago. Using one hell of a natural magnifying lens (gravitational lensing),…
Tesla Offers Up Model Y Tease and Promises on the Model 3
Need your daily Tesla mania fix? Elon Musk has you covered with a cryptic tease of the Model Y. We know what it will sort of look like, and…
KELT-9b, An Exoplanet Hotter Than Most Stars With a Doomed Future
Life as we know it isn’t happening on KELT-9b. The tidally locked planet is a scorcher with day side temperatures hitting 4,600 Kelvin (that’s more than 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit).…
SpaceX is Trading a Reusable Falcon 9 for a Reusable Dragon (UPDATE: Launch Scrubbed)
It’s just another historic day for the folks at SpaceX. In the hot, humid skies of Florida this evening, SpaceX will become the first privately owned company to send…
Cool Facts About NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sun Mission
The facts are about the only thing on the Parker Solar Probe that will be cool. Temperatures reaching 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit will bake the carbon-shield protecting the rest of…
Fuze Card is Another Card to Hold All Your Credit Cards
Who knows, this one might see the light of day. Fuze Card is currently storming up Indiegogo with over $600,000 raised. The concept is one we have heard before.…