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 …

North-west morning sky on Saturday, April 27 as seen from Adelaide at 02:01 ACST. The Moon is just about to cover (occult) the bright star Sigma Scorpii. The inset shows the moon at 3:32 ACST …

Wondering where the planets are? Here are directions to spot them.

Located some 3 million light-years away in the arms of nearby spiral

Rocket Lab, a launch service provider based in Long Beach CA, launched a rideshare payload on April 23 from its launch complex in New Zealand. I’ve been tracking that launch because aboard the Electron rocket …

A year and a half after their seeds were flown to the moon and back on NASA's Artemis I mission, a literal forest of saplings are ready to be planted. NASA is beginning to notify …

On 2023 February 12.8 (20:18:07 UTC), K. Sarneczky found a small asteroid with the 0.60-m Schmidt + CCD of the Piszkéstető Observatory in Hungary (K88 MPC code) that was soon after put on the NEOCP …

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 …

I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. In that first article, “A Europa-Io Sample Return Mission”, …

On Monday, April 8, 2024, there will be an eclipse of the Sun visible from all of North America. In a narrow strip, from the west coast of Mexico, through Texas, Indiana, New York, Vermont …

My office mate in Barcelona is Portuguese and he very proudly reminded me this morning that today, 25th April 2024, is the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution that ultimately overthrew a fascist dictatorship and …

PlutoTV, the free online television streaming site, will host a "Big Planet Energy" rally tomorrow, Monday, April 1, at 12 pm Pacific time (3 PM Eastern time) in support of Pluto's planethood. Although this is …

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is considering applications from NASA-funded researchers to study lunar samples brought back to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 moon mission. According to the South China Morning Post these applications are …

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 …

Well it's starting to look slightly like my work area at home here at the German flat.I've stripped off all the decals from my airliner and done as good a clean of the glue residue …

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 …