Astronomers See A Dead Star Come Back To Life Thanks To A Donor Star
Two stars are caught in a unique relationship. The larger red giant star sheds material which its companion neutron star…
Scientists Find that Earth Bacteria Could Thrive on Enceladus
A recent study by a team of German scientists has demonstrated that a certain strain of Earth bacteria could survive…
Astronaut Scott Tingle Was Able To Control A Ground-Based Robot… From Space.
The ESA is working on artificially intelligent robots that could be controlled from a distance by astronauts. The pair could…
Carnival of Space #551
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Engineers Develop a Whole New Way to Use Curiosity’s Drill After a Recent Hardware Failure
Due to a mechanical failure, engineers at NASA JPL have developed a new method for the Curiosity drill, which was…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 481: Rockets pt. 3 – Going Faster, Higher, Farther after Fairing Separation
We've seen rockets blast off from here on Earth. But that's only half the story. Rockets have additional stages to…
Saturn Photobombs a Picture of the Martian Moon Phobos
While taking pictures of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, the Mars Express probe also captures pictures of Saturn in…
Book Review: Inventing a Space Mission
Where will science's next big advance arise? Like Archimedes, maybe someone will jump up out of a tub of hot…
The Biggest Airplane Taxis Down the Runway, By 2020 it Could Be Launching Rockets
In preparation for its maiden flight, StratoLaunch's Roc aircraft - the largest aircraft in the world - recently conducted its…
Did the Milky Way Steal These Stars or Kick Them Out of the Galaxy?
A new study by an international team of astronomers has determined that stars in the Milky Way's halo actually formed…