• Movie/Book Review: Mickey 17

    I recently read the book Mickey7 and thought to myself how it would make a great movie. I guess I was not alone since the movie was already in production. It is the story of a crew member on a spacecraft who was literally dying to do his job. He performed the most dangerous tasks…

  • Free E-book From NASA on Dark Matter & Dark Energy

    NASA has released a free e-book titled Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe. You can download the book at the NASA site in one of two formats – PDF or EPUB. This is the fifth edition of this book. You cannot argue with the price, while the content is an impressive story about how the Hubble…

  • Space Quote: Japanese Prime Minister Channels Star Trek

    “We are now standing at a turning point in history, embarking on a new frontier, and elevate this unshakable Japan-US relationship to even greater heights and hand it to the next generation. Finally, let me be conclude with a line from Star Trek, which you all know: To boldly go where no one has gone…

  • Oops – Sorry About That, Mars

    You may remember how NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was a great success in that it demonstrated that we can divert an asteroid, should it be necessary. Well, that’s not the whole story. A new study has found that the redirected asteroid debris may threaten Mars in the future. How far into the…

  • Pic of the Week: The Total Solar Eclipse

    The image of the week relates to the Total Solar Eclipse that captured the nation’s attention. Goofy glasses like the ones shown in The Chicago Tribune (above) and Wired magazine (below) were worn across the country to watch this rare event.

  • A UFO on the Moon?

    The grainy image above may remind you of some of the UFO images that circulated years ago. However, in this case, the image is from the Moon as captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. What you are seeing is a Korean spacecraft going thousands of miles per hour (hence the blurred, elongated image). Named the…

  • Space Stories: Voyager 1 Gibberish, Lunar Rovers Underway, and the Largest Digital Camera

    Here are some recent stories of interest. —ScienceAlert: “NASA Has Finally Identified The Reason Behind Voyager 1’s Gibberish“ For months now, the most distant spacecraft to Earth – Voyager 1 – has been talking gibberish on the interplanetary ‘radio’. The repetitive jumble of 1s and 0s it’s sending back to our planet, 24 billion kilometers (15…

  • Telescopes Caught the Eclipse From Across the Country

    If you missed the Total Solar Eclipse or just want to see what it looked like in other parts of the country, NASA and other observatories have you covered. Check out the NASA video, “2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA (Telescope Feed),” showing the eclipse from Texas to Maine.

  • The Total Solar Eclipse Mayhem is Underway

    No good astronomical event happens without accompanying pain, or so it would seem given all of the news stories about tomorrow’s eclipse. We are hearing plenty of stories about overpriced hotels, traffic jams, and even the intervention of FEMA. Just wait until you hear all of the stories about people who paid a fortune to…

  • Have You Heard of Orbital Drug Factories?

    The International Space Station is not the only orbiting platform for experiments. Varda Space Industries has its own orbiting facility, or at least it had one in orbit for 10 months until it returned to Earth in February (shown below). And now the company has another $90 million in funding to continue to develop its…