04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
... to contend with the fact that said galaxy is named NGC 4921. There is nothing wrong with classifying celestial bodies in this fashion, certainly we would all get very confused if we didn’t introduce numbers, but when it comes to specific...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... 14 th, 2013, in a mission that had also delivered the Chang'e 3 stationary lander. It was China's first landing on another celestial body, and while Yutu's mission was supposed to last for only three months, it ended up setting a new record...
18 October 2016
Plans for first ever Space nation "Asgardia" announced today
... in novae, supernovae and pulsars; and the danger of Earth infection by microorganisms from meteors and other small celestial bodies. The third goal is to create a demilitarized and free scientific base of knowledge in space. This will provide free...
25 January 2017
"Extinct" meteorite challenges our understanding of how the solar system formed
... "extinct" because it’s unusual mineralogy, which is different from all known groups of meteorites, points to an origin from a celestial body that was destroyed a very, very long time ago. In addition to this intriguing discovery, research has also...
13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
One of the most intriguing missions to a celestial body in our Solar System, is one that will study whether the salty liquid water under Europa’s icy ...
17 April 2017
April 19th to be an exciting day for stargazers as an asteroid and a comet pass close to Earth
... earth. Although smaller asteroids fly by our planet almost every day, the last time such a large celestial body came this close was in 2004, when the five kilometre Toutatis flew by at four lunar distances. A lunar...
