• Upcoming Conference: Space Settlement Summit

    If you are interested in seeing humanity spread into space, you might want to attend the upcoming Space Settlement Summit hosted by the National Space Society (NSS) and scheduled for November 3 and 4 in Orlando, Florida. The federal government may be backing out of conferences, and science in general, but that need not stop…

  • Space Quote: It’s Raining Satellites

    “Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the US, recorded an average of between one to two Starlink satellites deorbiting each day in 2025. That figure is expected to rise to around five per day as SpaceX continues to grow its space internet constellation.” -Statement in the UK’s Independent newspaper regarding SpaceX’s Starlink…

  • Is Jared Isaacman Back?

    It has been a few months since the blowup between President Trump and Elon Musk, which also led to the removal of billionaire Jared Isaacman as the nominee to be NASA administrator. In the meantime, Sean Duffy has been in the role of acting administrator while also trying to run the Department of Transportation. Well,…

  • Pic of the Week: Tropical Cyclones Imelda and Humberto

    This week’s image comes from NASA’s Earth Observatory. It caught two tropical cyclones stirring up the Atlantic Ocean in late September. Both Tropical Storm Imelda and Hurricane Humberto caused plenty of problems off of the east coast of the United States without ever making landfall. Here is more on the two storms from NASA: Imelda…

  • Video: Plans for the First Commercial Space Station

    If you are eager to understand what comes after the International Space Station (ISS), you might enjoy Vast’s video showing plans for the Haven-1 and Haven-2 missions as well as other future projects. Vast’s Haven-1 is a single-module station expected to be launched in May 2026. Once Haven-1 is in orbit, four crew members will…

  • Space Stories: Questionable Move of Space Shuttle Discovery, the Problem with Red Dwarf Exoplanets, and a Rare Sight from Mars

    Here are some recent space-related stories of interest. —Chron: “Historic Space Shuttle Could Be Compromised for Trip to Texas“ Within the next 18 months, the space shuttle Discovery may be disassembled in Washington D.C., transported more than 1,000 miles to Houston and reassembled. But not if grassroots group Keep The Shuttle has anything to say about…

  • Bill Nye is in Washington, DC to Support NASA

    You may have heard that the federal government has shut down, but that did not stop the Planetary Society’s CEO Bill Nye from traveling to Washington, DC to protest NASA cuts. He was there with almost two dozen other organizations to protest the White House’s plans to cut 24 percent of NASA’s budget. Highlighting the…

  • Space Quote: Surmising Planetary-mass Bodies in the Outer Solar System

    “One explanation is the presence of an unseen planet, probably smaller than the Earth and probably bigger than Mercury, orbiting in the deep outer solar system…This paper is not a discovery of a planet, but it’s certainly the discovery of a puzzle for which a planet is a likely solution.” -Statement by lead author Amir…

  • Audit Report: ISS Spacesuit Issues

    NASA has spent a significant amount of money on the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits used during spacewalks on the International Space Station (ISS). Even so, these suits have ongoing problems that need to be resolved given that they will be critical to the ISS mission until the decommissioning of the station in 2030. The…

  • Study Findings: Lunar Surface and Subsurface Water Revealed by Chang’e-6

    Nature Astronomy abstract of the study findings: The processes driving the formation and distribution of lunar water (OH/H2O), particularly in the subsurface, remain poorly understood. An opportunity to study subsurface water comes from lander plumes, which can displace and expose millimetre- to centimetre-sized regolith during the descent of the lander. Here we analyse data from the Chang’e-6…