Blogs about Space

This week, the 4th international conference on the history of physics finally took place at Trinity College Dublin. The event, supported by the Institute of Physics and the European Physics Society, was the fourth in …

The Last Quarter Moon is Sunday, July 28. Mercury is visible in the evening twilight, with Venus low on the horizon below. Mercury starts the week close to the bright star Regulus, and during the …

New smart telescopes coupled with your cell phone make photographing galaxies and comets easy.

These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away

One night a few years back I had a late night call from a friend who was involved in Breakthrough Starshot, the attempt to design a probe that could reach nearby stars and return data …

Attendees at San Diego Comic-Con can join the Lego Mission Crew by building a rocket and "launching" it aboard Space Station 8R1CK5. The activity, which is awarded by an exclusive minifigure patch, celebrates space as …

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Abstract Cixin Liu’s “Wandering Earth” is a more recent depiction of Earth being used as a Starship. Like Stanley Schmidt’s “Lifeboat Earth” (1976) it does seem like something of a rush job – the Sun …

Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read …

Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This interest started honestly enough back around 1966 when I was about four years old after …

Friday, May 10, there was a lot of discussion on the news, on social media, and on different web sites about storms on the Sun that are unleashing great outbursts of radiation and particles, some …

Ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, I thought I’d post a reminder of Ireland’s first ever Olympic medal. A silver medal was awarded to Ireland at the 1924 Olympic Games …

That NASA decision to cancel the VIPER south pole Moon rover continues to stir up lunar exploration advocates. NASA’s call to kill the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project has irked roughly 2,500 people …

This nebula is very, very dim and therefore it's not very popular with astrophotographers as it takes a long time to get a decent image. All in all this image took me over 50h of …

I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for more than seven years, but the run came to …

Despite this being a strange toy I probably would have liked it as a kid. Certainly the idea, Plagues of the 21st Century. I know I would have preferred plastic to soft materials but you …

I was listening to a favorite symphony this morning, Mendelssohn’s Fourth, the Italian Symphony. The first movement is as sunny as I’ve ever known it to be in Italy, even in Tuscany. I started wondering …

durf: Boston Dynamics steals Japanese kawaii tech for its latest robot:

Image credit: NASA.The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) had its origins in talks aimed at developing a common U.S./Soviet docking system for space rescue. The concept of a common docking system was first put forward in …