Space used to be a place occupied by government-funded and military missions, but today, we’re seeing the rise… and fall of missions with commercial design and funding. Let’s talk about how this is good, bad, and maybe just too soon.
Today we’ll examine that long journey that matter has gone through, forged and re-forged in the hearts of stars. In fact, the device you’re using to listen to this podcast has some elements formed in a supernova explosion.
As we explore more surfaces and more complex surfaces throughout the solar system, mission teams are designing robot explorers that don’t sit still and also don’t rove. In this episode, we’re going to take a look at the new technologies that are allowing technology to get around.
Computers are getting smaller, faster and more capable, which has enabled an entirely mew class of satellites: CubeSats.
NASA’s newly launched SphereX mission is up & operational and has completed its initial checkout and “first light”. Everything looks good!
There are stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. But very little evidence of anything in between. Where are all the intermediate-mass black holes that should be the building blocks of the biggest ones?
It’s in the news and people are claiming aliens… but is it aliens? Let’s see what the data actually says.
It seems like everyone just wants to explore the Moon’s South Pole. What makes this region so special and what are the special challenges that explorers will face. Learn here!
We are on the verge of sending humans back to the Moon. At the same time others prefer we focus our exploration on Mars. It’s a tough choice.
Even empty space isn’t empty. It’s filled with the quantum fluctuations of spacetime itself. Which can be measured with famous experiments like the Casimir Effect