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…
Would Earth Still Be Habitable Without Us?
Scientists have built a working model of Earth without any life on it and what they found might change how we search for aliens. By simulating 4.5 billion years of…
February finale: SpaceX wraps up month with three Starlink launches this week
Two Falcon 9 launches from Florida and one from California deployed 83 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, wrapping up February 2026 for the SpaceX network.
Apollo moon rocks may have finally solved an old lunar mystery
A new analysis of Apollo moon samples reveals insight into the history of the lunar magnetic field.