Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
February 2021 was all blast and hype about Mars, with three missions (!) successfully managing to reach the Red Planet and get to work. About two months after the first one reaching its destination, how are they doing? Hope, the…
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All eyes are pointed to the sky, looking at the weather, which remains the main obstacle so far to the historical Space X’s launch (why it is so crucial, anyway? read this). The launch had to be cancelled (‘scrubbed’) on…
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There has been some interesting news in these last weeks about space, both in terms of missions (I have talked about Lucy in my last post) and discoveries. Here some of the things I’ve found worth reading. We are two…
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Since I’m now deep down in my (non fiction) book about space (I’m due to submit to the publisher in a couple of weeks, after more than one year of work) I thought I could share here some of the…
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It has been a while since I’ve done this, so I think a quick roundup of some interesting space and science features recently in the news can be of use. NASA’s InSight lander is on its way to Mars. The…
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2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations are high for the results they are going to deliver. New Horizons: if 2014 has been the…
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Today March, 6 NASA’s Dawn has finally completed its historic mission and entered Ceres’ orbit after 7.5 year of travel. The first space mission to have reached not one but two previously unexplored (dwarf) planets/asteroids, Dawn has previously studied Ceres’ twin Vesta in…
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Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE ON TITAN – February, 13 2015 DAWN MISSION UPDATE: CLOSING IN ON CERES – January, 24…
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