Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Another good week for space news. These are the headlines that have caught my attention -all worthy of a follow-up. The Universe Is Expanding So Fast We Might Need New Physics to Explain It -It is not the first time…
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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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After ESA-Rosetta managed the incredible Phila landing on a comet in 2014, these days are full of photos and news of the amazing achievement of the Hayabusa 2. On 21 September, the Japanese probe successfully released two robotic rovers on the surface…
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It has been a while since I have got across something as interesting as this bizarrely-shaped celestial object that has recently appeared on our system. Its name is Oumuamua, and it has got instant notoriety around the globe. The first…
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As usual, some interesting news from space and technology (yes, I know, it’s difficult to remain positive when we look at the news. Keep faith, people). Links included if you want more. Complex chemistry in Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmosphere –…
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If you have a keen interest in space matters, you also know about NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer – NEOWISE, in short – which is a spacecraft, launched in December 2009 (at that time, called WISE), to study celestial…
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Again, that’s the moment of my summary of space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few, since I haven’t done it in a while). This time there are not amazing discoveries but some quite interesting subjects. As…
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That our Solar System is an original one, we already know it. Surveys about other planetary systems have confirmed what we already suspected about the odd positions of our gas giants and other features (for a good explanation, read this…
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A lot of interesting things in the news this week. Even though some are not per se “new”, I found them quite captivating both in terms of implications and for the questions they raised. Answers will follow – in due…
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