If our country is serious about returning to the Moon, reaching Mars, and maintaining its leadership in the new space race, it cannot allow launch pads, range scheduling, and reentry…
Category: Space
FAA Moves to Exempt Commercial Rocket Launches From Key Environmental Reviews
FAA moves to ensure regulatory processes serve genuine environmental interests rather than becoming a legal mechanism for undermining American space competitiveness.
A Close Call with Asteroid Apophis
It was quite a scare when first discovered in 2004, but thousands of observations later, we now know that the asteroid known as Apophis will miss Earth when it makes…
China’s Spent Rockets Are Turning Low Earth Orbit Into a Debris Minefield
China’s pattern of treating low Earth orbit like a dumping ground at the same time it is expanding potential military space capabilities should raise serious concerns for anyone relying on…
Rethinking the Black Hole Singularity
The uncertainty goes back to a simple fact: it has only been 110 years since this started. Humanity is still at the cusp of exploring space beyond its own moon,…
Woke Drama and Media Non-troversy Ensue after Artemis III All-Male Crew is Announced
Artemis III is not a social experiment but a high-risk, high-precision test mission meant to push hardware, procedures, and human performance to their limits. The priority is not optics; it…
ISS Leak Scare Underscores Why NASA Is Ready to Send the Aging Outpost to a Fiery End
Five astronauts ordered to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours as Russian crew attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory,
Surprising Finding: The Earth formed from local building blocks
“We were truly astonished to find that the Earth is composed entirely of material from the inner Solar System distinct from any combination of existing meteorites.”
Monitoring Drought and Groundwater from Space
By precisely tracking these changes, GRACE FO allows scientists to map how water moves across the planet
NASA Is Testing AI Enabled ‘Dynamic Targeting’ from Space
The idea is to make the spacecraft act more like a human: Instead of just seeing data, it’s thinking about what the data shows and how to respond.
Seismic Data Suggests Ocean’s Worth of Water Lies Beneath Surface of Mars
The volume of water is estimated to be enough to cover Mars in an ocean about a mile deep.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to Make Closest Approach to the Sun on Christmas Eve
Parker planned to get more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, hitting 430,000 mph (690,000 kph) at closest approach. It’s the fastest spacecraft ever built and…
‘God of Darkness’ Asteroid Will Pass Extremely Close to Earth in 2029
Asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, is a near-Earth asteroid that has garnered significant attention due to its close approach to our home planet.
Astronauts Aboard International Space Station Told to Prepare for Urgent Evacuation
NASA is now calling the cracks in a Russian service module a ‘top safety risk’ – escalating the threat rating to five out of five. Astronauts have been warned to…
Is Paleoclimate Cyclic? It’s a Mystery to Me
In about 120 million years we will finally cross the Sagittarius spiral arm. We will exit this Ice House with its periodic glacial ages and enter the next Hot House…
Mission to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, begins on October 10th…amazing work by Galileo 400+ years ago on the largest planet in our solar system and its moons
Europa is a world that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust which could very well host conditions favorable for life. NASA will place…
Odysseus Achieves First Ever Private Lunar Soft Landing
An exciting new milestone in the quest to conquer space.
Another Warning Shot from Space: Melbourne, Australia Experiences a “Loud Bang”
Why are we wasting resources on the imaginary climate crisis, when there are real threats to address?
NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room
Congratulations to the OSIRIS-REx team on a picture-perfect mission – the first American asteroid sample return in histor
Concerns Over Interstellar SUVs: Greenhouse Gas Fears Reach a Cosmic Scale
It might not be long before we see the Milky Way’s first interplanetary carbon tax