Toyota is Building a Pressurized Lunar Rover for Japan
JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is teaming up with the nation's largest company to build a lunar rover. Toyota,…
India’s Chandrayaan-2 is Heading to the Moon
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has successfully launched their Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon. The mission, which includes an orbiter,…
China’s Tiangong 2 was Destroyed Last Week, Burning up in the Atmosphere Over the South Pacific Ocean
China recently successfully conducted a controlled deorbit of its second orbital laboratory, Tiangong-2.
Searching For The Red Edge: How The Earth’s Forests Are Telling The Aliens Where We Live
People are always worried that alien civilizations will detect the transmissions from our old radio shows and television broadcasts, and…
Drama In Low-Earth Orbit As LightSail2 Deploys Its Sails
LightSail 2 has successfully deployed its solar sails. Shortly after 12:00 pm PST The Planetary Society tweeted that the sails…
VP Pence Unveils the Spacecraft that will Take Astronauts Back to the Moon in 2024!
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing, VP Pence recently unveiled the the Orion capsule that will take…
Chris Kraft, Legendary NASA Flight Director, Dies at 95
The man known as the ‘father of flight control’ – Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. – has died at the age…
Meet Our Neighbour, The Local Void. Gaze Into It, Puny Humans.
Our planet is part of the larger structure of the Solar System, shaped and made stable by the force of…
Messier 90 – the NGC 4569 Spiral Galaxy
Welcome back to Messier Monday! Today, we continue in our tribute to our dear friend, Tammy Plotner, by looking at…
Carnival of Space #621
Welcome to the 621st Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers,…