How Do We Settle on Mercury?
Though it is not considered as such, Mercury is actually a viable candidate for colonization – if you can get around the extreme conditions!
The Constellation Boötes
In the northern skies, flanked by the Big Dipper, lies the Bootes constellation, one of the traditional constellations listed by Ptolemy
What is Time Dilation?
One of the strangest implications of Relativity is the concept of time dilation; how people moving at different speeds will experience different amounts of time. Dr. Brian Koberlein helps us figure it out.
The House Makes NASA A Counteroffer It Probably Can’t Refuse
NASA’s proposed new budget is mostly good news, though some planned missions will not be funded.
How Far Can You Travel?
If you accelerate at 1G, you can create artificial gravity inside your spaceship. And there’s the added advantage that you can cross billions of light years within a human lifetime. How far can we travel?
ESA Regrets Not Buying Windshield Insurance
Thanks to astronaut Tim Peake, people here on Earth have been treated for the first time to an image of what a chipped window aboard the ISS looks like!
Rock Around the Comet Clock with Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope takes a deep look into the Comet 252P/LINEAR and discovers a spinning jet. We look at the jet then learn how you can still track this comet with your own telescope.
1st Boeing Starliner Hull Assembled as 1st Crew Flight Delays to 2018
As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing’s first Starliner astronaut taxi, the firm announced a slip into 2018 for the blastoff date of the first crewed flight in order to deal with spacecraft mass, aerodynamic launch and flight software issues, a Boeing spokesperson told Universe Today.
How Do We Terraform Ceres?
It is possible that we could someday transform Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, to make it friendly for human habitation?
SpaceX Announces Plan to Launch Private Dragon Mission to Mars in 2018
SpaceX announced plans today, April 27, for the first ever private mission to Mars which involves sending an uncrewed version of the firms Dragon spacecraft to accomplish a propulsive soft landing – and to launch it as soon as 2018 including certain technical assistance from NASA.