Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This was the question my niece asked me a while ago, and with a reason. We’re used to the fact that astronomical events are “fix”, like the duration of the day and night, the revolution of the Earth around the…
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Even if you don’t follow space news, you’ve probably heard about this historical achievement. Space X’s new module, Crew Dragon, which is going to take later this year astronauts to the ISS, has successfully made its maiden voyage, even though…
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I have already written in the past about a few software and websites that allow for exploring the night sky and stars nearby. Today I’m going to focus on a specific celestial object, the closest to us: our Moon. As…
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Yesterday (NASA) and the world said farewell to the Martian rover Opportunity. After several weeks of attempts to revive the rover -overwhelmed last June by one of the worst dust storms of the decade, NASA gave up. “Opportunity landed on…
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2018 has been a record-shattering year -with more than 100 successful launches and mission achievements. What are we looking for in 2019? Another year that promises to be spectacular, as a matter of fact. It started with a bang, with…
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If you accept the idea that everyone/everything NOT living on planet Earth for all or most of their lives is a spacenoid (questionable as it might be, and the discussion would be long indeed…) we have a few of us…
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New Horizons is almost there. After the historical flyby of Pluto in 2015, the probe has continued its course across the Kuiper Belt and it is now readying up for this (historical all the same) encounter, expected in two day…
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2018 has been another amazing year in terms of space exploration and rocket launches. Now that we’re almost at the end, I’d like to offer a few highlights. Some of the missions are still ongoing and one is coming to…
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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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After having started the week with the (truly amazing) landing of Insight on Mars, I close it with the news of another event not less spectacular, also by NASA: Osiris-REX, after more than two years of travelling in outer space, will…
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