Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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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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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Among the numerous news of this week, one is worthy of further discussion. After decades of studies, BepiColombo mission is a go. The probe represents Europe’s first mission to Mercury, just launched yesterday (20 October) toward the smallest and least…
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Do you remember the never-ending quest (and controversies) about the hypothetical Planet Nine (or Ten, depending on the way you count them)? Well, get ready. We have finally got something solid. A distant dwarf planet, soon nicknamed The Goblin, has…
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In the latest weeks I couldn’t do my usual science &space round-ups, so here it is, with some recent and less recent, but still worth reading, news. The new probe now heading to the Sun and when it comes from….
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If you thought (like me) that Jupiter only had 65 moons, get ready to be surprised: according to NASA, there are (at least) 12 more lining up and awaiting a name. 11 of them are “normal” outer moons, plus one,…
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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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This is my second post about cartography and maps of other celestial bodies of the Solar System (the first one, the Moon, is here) and there are not many subjects as fascinating as this one. The Moon is pretty well…
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