China’s Lander Successfully Grew Some Cotton Plants on the Moon. Fruit Flies and Potatoes Didn’t Fare So Well
When China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on January 3rd 2019, it made history. It was the…
Exoplanet Orbits its Star Every 18 Hours. The Quickest Hot-Jupiter Ever Found
The Next Generation Transit Survey recently discovered a hot-Jupiter with the shortest orbital period observed to date, just 18 hours!
Nine Astronauts from Four Different Space Agencies are on the International Space Station Right Now
The International Space Station's usual complement of six astronauts grew by 50% recently, making things a little crowded up there.…
Weekly Space Hangout: October 2, 2019 – Geoff Notkin, President of the National Space Society
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Annie Wilson (@BinaryAblaze) Pamela Hoffman (http://everydayspacer.com/ / @EverydaySpacer) Veranika "Nika" Klimovich Emmy Award-winning television…
Elon Musk Shows us What’s Inside the Starship
Elon Musk recently upload a video that shows that the interior of the Starship's prototype cargo bay.
India’s Crashed Lander is In This Picture, Somewhere
This image of the lunar highlands is from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. You'd need superhuman eyesight to spot it, but…
What Will It Take To Feed A Million People On Mars?
In 2017, Elon Musk laid out his grand sweeping plans for the future of SpaceX, the company that would take…
A Red Dwarf Star Has a Jupiter-Like Planet. So Massive it Shouldn’t Exist, and Yet, There It Is
Thanks to the Kepler mission and other efforts to find exoplanets, we've learned a lot about the exoplanet population. We…
Carnival of Space #631
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Confirmed. Fossils That Formed 3.5 billion Years Ago, Really are Fossils. The Oldest Evidence of Life Found So Far
The title of Earth's Earliest Life has been returned to the fossils in the Pilbara region of Australia. The Pilbara…