Trump Proposes $19.1 Billion 2018 NASA Budget, Cuts Earth Science and Education
The Trump Administration has proposed a $19.1 Billion NASA budget request for Fiscal Year 2018, which amounts to a $0.5…
Weekly Space Hangout – May 26, 2017: Stephen Petranek and How We’ll Live On Mars
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: NAT GEO’s Stephen Petranek is the author of How We’ll Live on Mars (TED…
The Columba Constellation
Located in the southern hemisphere is the small constellation of Columba, one of the 88 constellations currently recognized by the…
Mouse Sperm Went to Space and Produced Healthy Mice
A team of Japanese researchers were able to fertilize mice embryos and produce a healthy litter of mice using frozen…
New Ideas for the Mysterious Tabby’s Star: a Gigantic Planet or a Planet With Rings
Tabby's Star is dimming again, and two new studies have been released that offer new and interesting theories on what…
NASA Moves Up Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche
I'm getting psyched for Psyche, which is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter…
New Way to Make Plasma Propulsion Lighter and More Efficient
A new study from a team of British and French physicists presents a concept for plasma thrusters that are both…
2 US Astronauts Conduct Unplanned, Rapidly Executed Contingency Space Walk on Space Station
In the space of just 3 days, a pair of NASA astronauts conducted an unplanned and rapidly executed contingency space…
Scientists Propose a New Kind of Planet: A Smashed Up Torus of Hot Vaporized Rock
Under the right conditions, two colliding rocky bodies might form a temporary structure called a 'synestia'. This rotating mass of…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 449: Robots in Space!
When you think of a robot, you're probably imagining some kind of human-shaped machine. And until now, the robotic spacecraft…