185 words Great that there's seemingly a new space race to build moonbases... but can't help but feeling the focus should be on setting up an International Moonbase as ISS successor, or at least a "Moon base city" with multiple bases forming a distinct hub.
115 words We’ve measured light to travel at a certain speed throughout the universe, but if I were the photon of light or traveling at the speed of light, wouldn’t I travel any distance instantaneously (from my perspective)?
146 words NASA "reluctantly agrees" to extend the stay on SpaceX's HLS contract by a week bc the 7GB+ of case-related docs in the Blue Origin suit keeps causing DOJ's Adobe software to crash and key NASA staff were busy at Space Symposium this week, causing delays to a filing deadline.
491 words The Dawn of the Space Age
247 words All Space Questions thread for week of May 30, 2021
466 words Astronaut Anna Fisher kisses her daughter Kristin after training in Houston for a spacewalk in 1985. Photo/NASA She became the first mother in space on November 8, 1984.
129 words Uncontrolled reentry: Why China “just not caring” is a huge problem for space
228 words NASA’s budget for the fiscal year 2021 is $23.3 billion. But what if NASA had the US military’s $600 billion budget?
202 words Why does the surface of Mars have so many rocks and boulders scattered around everywhere?
226 words All Space Questions thread for week of February 28, 2021
190 words SpaceX begins accepting $99 preorders for Starlink, with Elon Musk saying the subsidiary will IPO "once we can predict cash flow reasonably well"
142 words My dad has taught tech writing to engineering students for over 20 years. Probably his biggest research subject and personal interest is the Challenger Disaster. He posted this on his Facebook yesterday (the anniversary of the disaster) and I think more people deserve to see it.
824 words You can send something to the Moon, for free! I'm creating a Lunar time capsule via Reddit - Sending up to 10mb of data to the Moon for up to 100,000 people!
177 words Biosignatures do not equal life. Assuming the presence of phosphine is confirmed, the detection of a single biosignature does not mean life has been found on Venus. It's ok to be excited by the unknown, though!
186 words My best Milky Way picture yet. Towards the top in the center is the Andromeda galaxy, on a direct collision course with ours. I wonder if something there is looking back at us?
297 words What are some popular misconceptions about the universe?
141 words Week of June 07, 2020 'All Space Questions' thread
118 words New black hole discovered closer than any other to Earth
109 words Curiosity's latest drill hole in a rock nicknamed "Edinburgh". The hole is about 0.6 inches (1.6 cm) in diameter and 2 inches (5 cm) deep. This photo was taken by night on 22 March 2020, the surface being lightened by LEDs.
107 words They call this Medusa because the filaments of glowing gas suggests the serpent hair of Medusa. I captured it with 10 hours of exposure time.