Apollo 11’s Rocket Engines Found on the Bottom of the Ocean
[/caption] Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has located the Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engines and plans to recover them. “I'm excited…
“Tidal Venuses” May Have Been Wrung Out To Dry
[/caption] Earth-sized exoplanets within a distant star's habitable zone could still be very much uninhabitable, depending on potential tidal stresses…
Astronomers Discover Ancient Planetary System
[/caption] From a press release from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy: A group of European astronomers has discovered an…
Billions of Habitable Worlds Likely in the Milky Way
[/caption] Could there be ‘tens of billions’ of habitable worlds in our own galaxy? That’s the results from a new…
“Snowing Microbes” On Saturn’s Moon?
[/caption] Enceladus, Saturn's 318-mile-wide moon that's become famous for its ice-spraying southern jets, is on astronomers' short list of places…
TV Viewing Alert: NASA’s Unexplained Files
Countless mysterious objects have been caught by NASA's cameras, and usually the events can be explained logically. The Science Channel…
Join in the Discussion of the Future of Human Spaceflight, Live from SEDS
What’s the latest on the future of human spaceflight and exploration? Join in on the discussion with a live videostream…
Brain Surgery, Fixing the Space Station’s Toilet and Orbital Cremation
"As you can imagine, all works comes to a stop on the Space Station when the toilet breaks," said astronaut…
Psychedelics in the Sky: NASA Launches 5 Rockets in 5 Minutes
[/caption] After several days of delays due to weather and technical issues, NASA has now successfully launched five suborbital sounding…
Carnival of Space #242
[/caption] This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Ray Sanders at his Dear Astronomer blog. Click here to read…