Tag: space
Monster Black Hole Found
Between 25,000 and 28,000 light years away is a super-massive black hole. It weighs in at more than four million times the mass of our Sun. No matter escapes it. No light escapes it. It has […]
Cyanide for an Atmosphere and 1800 in the Shade
Scientists from London and Leuven, Belgium recently published a paper with information about the super-Earth planet 55 Cancri e. Through observations with the WFC3 camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope, they say its likely that the planet […]
Blue Origin Getting Ready for Operations, Space Tourism
Elon Musk and SpaceX have been garnering many of the headlines in the private launch vehicle arena, but Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly achieving very positive, […]
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves”
About 1.3 billion years ago, about 1.3 billion light years away, a black hole with a mass of 39 times that of our Sun, met a slightly smaller one with 26 times the mass of […]
Luxembourg Goes into the Asteroid Mining Business – Luxembourg!
Today the Luxembourg government announced it’s going into the asteroid mining business. It plans to provide incentives and a favorable regulatory climate to encourage the industry to flourish in the small country. The goal is […]
Can You Hear Me Major Tom? Comet Lander Not Responding
A little more than a year ago on November 12, 2014, the Philae lander had a rough landing on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Instead of neatly landing on the comet’s surface, it bounced a few times and […]
ESA’s Moon Base and How it Gets Us to Mars
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently formalized plans to send missions to the moon beginning in the early 2020s, with manned missions following by the middle of the decade. By 2030, they hope to have […]
Goodbye Planetary Rovers – Hello ‘Hopters’
On July 4th, 1997, the Sojourner rover touched down on Mars as a part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. It proceeded to send back an amazing array of imagery of the Martian landscape that captivated […]
The Key to Getting to Mars: Balloons
Okay, not balloons, exactly, but the next closest thing: inflatable habitation modules. With existing technology, the planned travel time to Mars is about six months. That’s a lot of time cooped up in a small […]
Commercial Space Taxis
A number of milestones were reached recently along the path toward the commercialization of space travel. The most notable was NASA’s awarding Boeing with a second order for carrying astronauts to the space station aboard […]
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