Everyone starts with a curiosity; The first cheese of humanity. You know that one of my favorite things in this world came about by accident, more than 7,000 years ago, someone somewhere in the Near East

The water of Enceladus Enceladus is a very interesting moon for us, because it has a large mass of liquid water under an icy crust and also the most interesting thing is that that icy crust is quite thin,

Hyakutake Comet

Taken on July 29 and July 30, a registered and stacked series of exposures creates this dreamlike view of a northern summer night. Multiple firefly flashes streak across the foreground as the luminous

Everyone starts with a curiosity; The annoying birth of Velcro. There is a million-dollar invention that was only possible because a dog was filled with dirt. In 1941, a Swiss engineer named Georges de

New data from the interstellar object 3I/Atlas This object was captured for the first time on June 14, but at that time it could not be identified as coming from interstellar space. It was believed that

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A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet lies within a relatively crowded region of space though. About 7,000 light-years distant

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Do the numbers support private enterprise dominates space?

New way to transport fuel in spaceships. Souce Something that is little talked about about reaching Mars is the possibility of discovering that the tank is empty upon getting there, no chance of returning,

Boots on The Moon without SLS - Two options (at least). Two HLS Starships and a Crew Dragon. Launch to LEO on Crew Dragon. Transfer to HLS Starship. Fly to the Moon, land, complete mission and launch to

Who called me Hale-Bopp Comet?

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A long time ago in a galaxy 50 million light-years away, a star exploded. Light from that supernova was first detected by telescopes on planet Earth on July 14th though, and the extragalactic transient

G'day, Hive fam! Your friendly neighbourhood Aussie from Adelaide here, and let me tell ya, this whole Eris rocket "success" has me chuckling and grimacing in equal measure. You probably saw

Everyone starts with a curiosity; The history of the microwave. Souce He was trying to stop the Nazis and accidentally discovered something that millions of people use today and surely you too, Percy Spencer

A question about nations and private enterprise in space exploration.

The dark forest, the paradox of Enrico Fermi. The dark forest is one of the hypotheses that would explain the Fermi paradox. Enrico Fermi, who was a physicist of the last century, as a joke, brought up

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