Blogs about Space

This week, the 4th international conference on the history of physics finally took place at Trinity College Dublin. The event, supported by the Institute of Physics and the European Physics Society, was the fourth in …

The Full Moon is Thursday, May 23. Comet 12P Pons-Brooks is now visible when the sky is fully dark but is still a binocular only object. The waxing Moon may make it harder to see. …

The International Space Station will be out every clear evening for the next couple of weeks.

North Celestial Aurora

Larry Klaes began developing a following for his deep dives into science fiction cinema long ago on Centauri Dreams, through memorable looks at films like The Thing from Another World, Forbidden Planet and The Day …

A Gemini capsule is included on Blue Origin's NS-25 New Shepard mission patch as a reference to what could have been. Gemini was flying when Ed Dwight reported to the Air Force's Aerospace Research Pilot …

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Abstract Cixin Liu’s “Wandering Earth” is a more recent depiction of Earth being used as a Starship. Like Stanley Schmidt’s “Lifeboat Earth” (1976) it does seem like something of a rush job – the Sun …

Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read …

I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. In that first article, “A Europa-Io Sample Return Mission”, …

Friday, May 10, there was a lot of discussion on the news, on social media, and on different web sites about storms on the Sun that are unleashing great outbursts of radiation and particles, some …

As I advertised a few days ago, The Royal Astronomical Society has now released its report on Bullying and Harassment in Astronomy. You can download the full report (40 pages, PDF) here. I recommend you …

PlutoTV, the free online television streaming site, will host a "Big Planet Energy" rally tomorrow, Monday, April 1, at 12 pm Pacific time (3 PM Eastern time) in support of Pluto's planethood. Although this is …

China’s robotic Chang’e 6 lunar farside sample return mission is now in orbit around the Moon, ready to execute a landing attempt. The multi-component spacecraft is currently awaiting optimum illumination conditions in the Apollo basin …

This nebula is very, very dim and therefore it's not very popular with astrophotographers as it takes a long time to get a decent image. All in all this image took me over 50h of …

I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for more than seven years, but the run came to …

Woodsy and Fellow Moonbasers,I loved seeing Wotan's photos of his Cherilea spacemen. Also, I'm now on the lookout for a suitable Lunar 'pod' or similar - some little accessory piece in-scale to the figures to …

I was listening to a favorite symphony this morning, Mendelssohn’s Fourth, the Italian Symphony. The first movement is as sunny as I’ve ever known it to be in Italy, even in Tuscany. I started wondering …

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Image credit: NASA.The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) had its origins in talks aimed at developing a common U.S./Soviet docking system for space rescue. The concept of a common docking system was first put forward in …