Houston, there’s a turd floating around the Moon – Space is Weird
Thinking about space for too long can be scary and overwhelming. Are we alone? Will we ever be able to live on another planet? Will black holes destroy the universe...
NASA would really like it if you stared at the moon on Saturday night
Did you know that Sept. 26, 2020 is officially the date of the annual International Observe the Moon Night? To celebrate the occasion, NASA's latest "Image of the Day" drop...
Since astronauts vote from space, you can definitely vote on Earth
In the early days of space travel, astronauts only stayed in orbit for a few weeks at most. But now that NASA and other space agencies launch missions that can...
The Fat Bear Week 2020 contenders are here
Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2020! Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some over 1,000 pounds....
Physicist says you can time travel all you want, but the universe won’t let you change things
A physics student at the University of Queensland recently published a paper indicating they’d ‘squared’ the math when it comes to time-travel. Not only should it theoretically be possible to...
The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie — literally
Over a year ago, a group of researchers made a revolutionary breakthrough when they successfully captured the first-ever image of a celestial phenomenon — a black hole. Well, that historic...
Big questions about raging Western U.S. wildfires, answered
The great blazes burning the West are like colossal campfires. What do you need to start a campfire? You need to burn some kindling. "The more kindling you have, the...
Curly the curling robot throws stones like a pro – TechCrunch
Robots have shown themselves to excel at any number of sports and activities, though they do best when they have a single task. Fortunately some sports, such as curling, consist...
Blue Origin job listing sheds more light on its space-based orbital habitat ambitions – TechCrunch
Blue Origin founder and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made no secret of his ambition to eventually create orbiting space stations that act as places for people to live and...
CMU’s MoonRanger robot rover will be the first to search for water ice on the Moon in 2022 – TechCrunch
Carnegie Mellon University and spinoff space startup Astrobotic are developing a robotic rover to look for water on the Moon, and the little bot just passed the crucial preliminary design...