The ‘Bad Astronomer’ Takes You on a Tour of the Cosmos
Phil Plait’s new book, Under Alien Skies, helps space fans imagine what it would be like to visit stars and other worlds. ..
Phil Plait’s new book, Under Alien Skies, helps space fans imagine what it would be like to visit stars and other worlds. ..
The Juice spacecraft will zoom in on the moon Ganymede, which might have a habitable ocean deep underground. ..
What’s the smallest lunar object a phone camera lens could resolve from Earth? Here’s what the physics of light tells us about shooting the moon. ..
Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast. ..
A set of Soyuz spacecraft coolant leaks hints that Roscosmos is struggling as the space agency loses international partnerships and funding. ..
Astrophysicist and 'Off-Earth' author Erika Nesvold maps out the questions we need to ask before living on other planets. ..
The student winners of a NASA competition designed a serpentine bot that could sidewind across lunar regolith or roll down hills. ..
The space agency gave money to researchers working on liquid telescope mirrors, a lunar oxygen pipeline, and Martian building blocks made of fungi. ..
A briefcase-sized satellite will ping lasers at the lunar South Pole to locate ice and map it for future human explorers. ..
The craft survived a 26-day voyage and a scorching descent. Now it’s time for NASA engineers to learn what went wrong—and what went right. ..