The ESA’s SpaceBok Robot Will Hop Its Way Around Low-Gravity Worlds
The ESA is helping a group of students from Zurich test and develop their hopping exploration robot. Called SpaceBok, the…
A Jarful of Titan Could Teach Us A Lot About Life There, and Here On Earth
Titan is a distant, exotic, and dangerous world. It's frigid temperatures and hydrocarbon chemistry is like nothing else in the…
Carnival of Space #619
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Fraser and John Michael Godier Debate the Fermi Paradox
As many of you are no doubt aware, our noble publisher, Fraser Cain, occasionally has the opportunity to sit down…
Orion Capsule Passes Key Launch Abort Test. Next Stop: The Moon!
NASA recently conducted their second test of the Orion's Abort Launch System (ALS), bringing them one step closer to returning…
Where Does Mars’ Methane Go? New Study Provides Possible Answer, with Implications in the Search for Life.
A new study from Aarhus University offers new insight into what is making Mars' methane "disappear" - with serious implications…
The Planet-Hunting TESS Discovers Its Smallest Exoplanet to Date
TESS recently discovered a three-planet system orbiting a red dwarf star 35 light years away, increasing the number of rocky…
NASA’s Still Trying to Get InSight’s Mole Working Again. Progress is Slow.
The InSight lander has been on Mars for 213 Sols on its mission to understand the interior of the red…
NASA Telescopes Reveal the Atmosphere of a Strange Hybrid Exoplanet
Out there in space is an unusual exoplanet name Gliese 3470 b (GJ 3470 b.) It's a strange world, kind…
Hubble has a Brand New Picture of the Massive Star Eta Carinae. It Could Detonate as a Supernova Any Day Now
7500 light years away is an object that (almost) needs no introduction: Eta Carinae. If you haven't heard of it…