This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Markus Hammonds over at Supernova Condensate. Click here to read Carnival of Space #260. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry [...]
, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Icebergs off Greenland 2001 : A Space Thriller Portland , Oregon talk OF DEATH I’m very excited to be heading up to Portland , Oregon on Wednesday , August 1, to give my Death from the Skies talk at the Bagdad Theater This is part of the OMSI Science Pub series , a laid-back event where people like me talk to people like you about stuff like science . In my case , I’ll be talking asteroid impacts and crispy dinosaurs and making fun of the movie Armageddon and then saving the world . This talk is open to the public and starts at 7:00 p.m . doors open at 5 Tickets are 20 and
A Russian Progress supply ship has been successfully re-docked to the International Space Station after an initial re-docking failed. The ship has been at the station since April and it was undocked on July 22 to perform a series of engineering tests during re-docking to make sure an upgraded automated rendezvous system was working. However, [...]
In 2011, America lost the ability to send humans into space when NASA retired the shuttle program. Lately, there has been a burst of news about the commercial side of spaceflight and how private companies such as SpaceX and VirginGalatic will soon be able to take over where the shuttle left off. But that doesn’t [...]
If you can’t get to a Mars Science Lab landing party, one website aims to bring the party to you. Explore Mars, a not-for-profit, has joined up with several space-faring organizations and firms to create Get Curious. It’s a one-stop shop for all things concerning Curiosity, the centerpiece of MSL. “Curiosity will rock the world” [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Greenland seeing unprecedented melting High schoolers totally shred on a high-altitude balloon Space Station Solstice This is pretty neat : on June 6, a couple of weeks before the summer solstice , astronauts on the International Space Station pointed a camera to the north and took pictures as they orbited the Earth . Taken over the course of about an hour 2 3 of a full orbit this was made into a video where you can see the Sun setting and rising again . What’s cool , though , is the Sun never completely sets . It dips toward the edge of the Earth , then pulls away : again I
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, Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Discovery Channel telescope sees first light Would you stand under a nuclear blast Sally Ride , 1951 2012 I’m sad to write that Dr . Sally Ride , the first US female astronaut to go into space , has died of pancreatic cancer . NASA has a wonderful page in tribute to this trailblazer , and there’s little I can add to it . You can read about her many contributions to the space program on her official astronaut bio page She was and will continue to be an inspiration to women and men across the world , and while she’s gone too soon , I’m glad she was here and making a difference
A Dwarf Planet with Moons
Pluto has been in the news a lot lately. The New Horizons spacecraft is headed out to swoop past this icy dwarf planet and show us what it really looks like. That will happen in July 2015 — just three years from now. In the meantime, the Hubble Space Telescope keeps [...]
Could Well Be!
The more we explore the outer solar system with probes like the Cassini spacecraft, the cooler things we discover. This week planetary scientists working with data from that spacecraft announced that there’s a good chance Saturn’s moon Titan has a layer of liquid water hidden beneath that desolate icy surface.
The discovery came from [...]
A Hell of a Planet
In honor of the transit of Venus, NASA-JPL offered up a look at our “sister” neighbor planet. It’s a gorgeous evening/morning star as seen from Earth, but if you were to travel there, you’d find it be less than gorgeous. Or, you might say it has a terrifying beauty of its [...]
I’ve been taking pictures with my cellphone camera, but a weird error on WordPress had been preventing me from uploading the pictures until now. So, these pictures range from the start of last year till now, but I figured I’d put a few up. I’m not a good photographer, and my cellphone camera isn’t particularly [...]