New Glenn failure worsens constrained launch market
The explosion of a New Glenn rocket has generated reverberations across the space industry with the rocket out of service for potentially a year or more. The post New Glenn…
JWST Finds Methane Atmosphere on Temperate Exoplanet
It’s 2165, and methane is in high demand, especially after the Titan Treaty of 2145 made it illegal to harvest methane from Saturn’s moon, Titan. But the advent of interstellar…
Blue Origin’s Lunar Lander Just Passed Its Toughest Test Yet
Before any spacecraft can survive the Moon, it has to survive something almost as brutal, a giant metal chamber in Houston that strips away every molecule of air and swings…
The Loudest Planet Wins
We are closer than ever to detecting signs of life on another world. The James Webb Space Telescope is already ‘sniffing’ alien atmospheres, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory is being…
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VIII: Paradox? What Paradox?
In recent decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has seen a revival, and future surveys will benefit from new technologies. Similarly, our perception of what technologies an advanced civilization…
The Galaxy That Forgot to Spin
Every galaxy we know of spins. It’s one of those rules of the universe so fundamental that astronomers barely think about it anymore. So when the James Webb Space Telescope…
‘The Arrival’ at 30: Charlie Sheen’s criminally underrated alien invasion thriller feels much scarier today
‘If you can’t tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to live here.’
Watch this bio-inspired Mars rover concept ‘swim’ through sand on curved wheels (video)
The sandfish locomotion idea has been adopted from Scincus scincus, a lizard found in the Sahara desert.
The 11 best cozy sci-fi games for those chill cosmic vibes
From farming and walking sims to space trucking, you can live that cozy life… but in space!
Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space?
“I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about.”