Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 have something else. New Horizons (the nice cute probe that recently visited Pluto) just snapped the…
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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 the energy level of a (sick) kitten, and it’s not something that puts you in a…
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I have recently seen a lot of articles discussing the so-called ocean worlds – that is, all planets and celestial objects that are not the Earth – and the interest in them is obvious: water is one of the essential…
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After hours of trepidation, we now know for sure that Cassini has survived its daring first dive on April 26 between Saturn and its rings. The spacecraft has got back in contact and it’s now beaming back all data collected during…
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I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life as we conceive it on Earth. Now it seems scientists were right in their assumption: NASA has…
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Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you can go & pick the ones that interest you the most. Hubble Gazes…
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That NASA’s Juno spacecraft was going to deliver amazing science we already knew. And when, in June 24, Juno crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s staggering magnetic field, its instruments recorded the bow shock (=the supersonic solar wind that is heated…
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Mainly for reasons of (lack of) time, I have decided to start a periodical feature on this blog devoted to space news. There are weeks when they are so numerous and /or interesting that one dedicated post is not sufficient…
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All good things end sooner or later, and Rosetta’s mission – an absolute first in space exploration (read the story and the success here) – ends today, when the probe, already on its collision track, will eventually crash on the…
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It is quite recent news that we might have discovered an exoplanet suitable for life orbiting the closest star to the Sun – exciting, isn’t it? Let’s look at the star, the planet and in how long we can (theoretically) be…
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