SpaceX Releases a Recap Video of their SN8 Making its Hop Test!
SpaceX just released a recap video of their SN8 making its first-ever high-altitude hop test. Soon enough, the SN9 will…
Winning Urban Farming Ideas for Mars!
The 2020 Mars City Design challenge inspired some truly innovative ideas for urban farming and living sustainably on Mars!
These Bizarre Cloud Patterns are von Kármán’s Vortices, Caused by the air Wrapping Around Tall Islands
This is an image of some of the islands that make up the nation of Cape Verde. While most in…
Stellar Flares May Not Condemn a Planet’s Habitability
Red dwarf stars are the most common kind of star in our neighbourhood, and probably in the Milky Way. Because…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis?
A recent addition to the list of possible resolutions to the Fermi Paradox: nobody is broadcasting because they don't want…
New Observations Agree That the Universe is 13.77 Billion Years old
A new measure of the cosmic microwave background supports an older universe, and raises more problems for cosmology.
Big News for SpaceX: Static Fire Today, Hop Test This Weekend?
SpaceX conducted another successful static fire test today in advance of a hop test that could be happening later this…
There Should be a few Supernovae in the Milky Way Every Century, but we’ve Only Seen 5 in the Last 1000 Years. Why?
Our galaxy hosts supernovae explosions a few times every century, and yet it's been hundreds of years since the last…
Japan to Launch ‘Wooden Satellite’ in 2023
What a proposed wooden satellite could (and could not) accomplish.
Here’s the Asteroid Hayabusa2 is Going to be Visiting Next
Check out this image of asteroid 1998 KY26 from the Subaru Telescope. It's not exactly beautiful, but it's not intended…