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Farewell Kepler. Welcome TESS

18 Apr , 2018 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral today, carrying NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite into space. This is a changing of the guard as we say goodbye to Kepler and welcome this newest planet hunter into the skies, ready to help us find another Earth.

Musk Says that SpaceX will use a Giant Party Balloon to Bring an Upper Stage Back. Wait, what?

18 Apr , 2018 by

Elon Musks hints in a tweet that SpaceX wants to use “giant party balloons” to retrieve upper stage rockets.

Weekly Space Hangout: April 18, 2018: Kevin Gill: Art and Science from Juno and MRO

18 Apr , 2018 by

Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg & ChartYourWorld.org) Special Guests: Kevin Gill is a software engineer, planetary and climate data wrangler, and a science data visualization artist. Kevin will be discussing his work with Juno […]

How to Listen to the Background Hum of Gravitational Waves From all the Black Holes Colliding into Each Other

18 Apr , 2018 by

A pair of scientists who were part of the first gravitational wave discovery have developed a way to listen to the background noise of the Universe to detect thousands more.

The NewSpace Revolution is About to Bring us Tiny Space Telescopes we can all Control

17 Apr , 2018 by

Next year, Randy Chung and Sean League of Space Fab will be launching the world’s first space telescope that will be accessible to everyone!

The Aurora Station Will be the First Luxury Hotel in Space

17 Apr , 2018 by

Aurora Station will be the first luxury hotel in space. The station will be open for business in 2022.
Carnival of Space. Image by Jason Major.

Carnival of Space #557

16 Apr , 2018 by

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #557.

Could We Detect an Ancient Industrial Civilization in the Geological Record?

16 Apr , 2018 by

According to a new study by a team of researchers, it is possible that we might find evidence of another industrial civilization in the geological record

Look at This Fascinating Variety of Planet-Forming Disks Around Other Stars

13 Apr , 2018 by

New images from the European Southern Observatory show the stunning variety of discs of gas and dust that surround young stars.

Pluto’s Charon Gets Mountains Named After Sci-Fi Authors Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke, as Well as Many Others From History and Legend. I Approve!

13 Apr , 2018 by

The IAU just approved of a dozen names for features on Pluto’s moon Charon, which include mountains named after Octavia Butler and Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

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