Tag: Space exploration
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Welcome to the new Martian citizen: Zhurong
It was the quieter Martian landing ever. From the US Pathfinder’s descent to the Martian surface that focused the world’s attention (and blew up…
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Mars Missions Coverage: Hope (ETA)
In the following days, I am going to post updates on the three Mars missions that are due to arrive just now. Tomorrow is…
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NASA’s Mission Lucy to explore how the Solar System was born.
This week’s post is devoted to this interesting new mission, after we’ve just enjoyed the last supermoon of 2020. Lucy will be the first…
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Our outer space citizens, right now
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…
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Space 2018: best of the year
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…
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Sources for your space exploration research.
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,…
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After Insight, Osiris-REX sees Bennu -finally!
After having started the week with the (truly amazing) landing of Insight on Mars, I close it with the news of another event not…
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Insight has landed. NASA’s historical mission is a success.
After a journey across space started in May of this year, Nasa’s InSight probe has landed tonight on Mars as planned, while the world held its breath.…
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Welcome back, Hubble!
Worries about Hubble’s operations have troubled the last month or so, at least since Friday, October 5, 2018, when the telescope was put into safe…
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Bepi Colombo and the challenges of exploring Mercury
Among the numerous news of this week, one is worthy of further discussion. After decades of studies, BepiColombo mission is a go. The probe…
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Enter The Goblin, the planet that changed it all.
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…
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NASA win an Emmy Award
Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the…
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Space Features of the Week (12 August)
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…
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the…
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Meet Ultima Thule, New Horizons’ Next Target
Everybody remembers New Horizons, right? The probe, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in January 2006, did a truly historic flyby of Pluto on July 14,…
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All eyes on Mars
Curiosity (NASA’s rover launched in 2011 and that landed on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012) keeps delivering. Today, NASA announced that the rover “has…
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All is ready for Mars InSight Lander.
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…
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Get to known Delta IV
There are plenty of news about Space X’s Falcon Heavy, the new heavy lifter for space exploration, with a reason: the endeavour is exceptional,…
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Vesta, and why we have a mission there
Vesta is a well-known place in terms of space exploration, but one people don’t necessarily know a lot about, let alone understand why NASA…
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Planet Nine (or X) makes the news again
It is not the first time I write about that mysterious object supposedly orbiting our Solar System (see previous articles here and here), mentioning the…
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Space Features of the Week (10 February)
Some interesting highlights this week (and NO, I’m NOT going to talk about Falcon Heavy. The rest of the world does it, right?). I…
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2018 -what to look forward to (space-wise)
This year I’ve decided, for once, not to do any New Year Resolutions. After all, I’ve started 2018 in bed with strong flu and…
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Oceans of life? The Solar System and beyond
I have recently seen a lot of articles discussing the so-called ocean worlds – that is, all planets and celestial objects that are not…
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Cassini’s Gran Finale – First images
After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its…