Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This month we’ve been truly spoiled with (space) wonders. After the UAE’s Hope and the Chinese Tianwen-1 safely entering the Martian orbit, NASA Perseverance treated us on 18 February with a spectacular descent to the Jezero crater, where it is…
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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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NASA’s next mission to Mars is a go, already on the launching pad. The probe is InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday 5 May in the morning. Contrary to other famous…
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Newsclipping from recent space and tech articles from around the web, some of them really interesting. Nearby neutron star collision could cause calamity on Earth. But if it doesn’t, the event itself could be very important for the detection of the…
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… I mean, it’s not like there’s no H2O anywhere in the Solar System apart from our planet. We know for a fact that a few gas giants’ satellites store substantial quantities of it – think of Europa, for example….
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This Sunday Earthians will witness something truly unique, estimated to happen maybe once every million years: a comet the size of a small mountain will fly by Mars, becoming the first comet to have ever come so close to Earth in recorded history….
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My latest published articles on Serious Wonder. Incidentally, there are also a few more on space and SF posted by other contributors – I do recommend having a look at them, they are really interesting (one is on time travel, a subject I am going…
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