Growing Future Meals in Space Will Require Human Waste
Future farmers on the Moon and Mars will have a big challenge: how to grow healthy food in two extremely unhealthy environments. That’s because the soil on both worlds isn’t…
NASA on ‘aggressive’ schedule to complete SLS repairs for April launch
NASA has about three weeks to complete repairs to the Space Launch System’s upper stage to make the next launch window for the Artemis 2 mission in early April. The…
Get Ready For The Rubin Observatory’s Deluge Of Discoveries
We’ve been waiting a long time for the Vera Rubin Observatory to begin its work. The observatory features the largest digital camera ever built. It’ll create a time-lapse of the…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 199 — The Obsolete Astronaut?
On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when robots may perform better —and…
Is it legal to own, buy, or sell Apollo mission moon rocks and lunar samples?
NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.
‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ is making Trek horny again, and it’s about time!
“I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring.”
See the ‘impossible’ as sunrise and a total lunar eclipse appear at the same time on March 3
A rare atmospheric effect called selenelion could briefly let skywatchers see the rising sun and a blood moon at the same time.
‘Pushing this competition’: SpaceX’s Starship might not fly on NASA’s newly revamped Artemis 3 mission
NASA’s Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, either.
The Universe’s Most Extraordinary Construction Site
Astronomers have discovered a extraordinary celestial construction site hiding behind a natural magnifying glass in space and what they’ve found is unlike anything seen before. A cluster of at least…
The Stars That Lit Up the Early Milky Way
Astronomers have used a special class of ancient, pulsating stars as celestial lighthouses to map the earliest chapter of our Galaxy’s life and what they’ve found is rewriting what we…