China Plans to Send this Bad Boy to Mars in 2020
The 2020s are shaping up to be a busy and diverse era in Martian surface exploration. Continue reading China Plans to Send this Bad Boy to Mars in 2020
Tag Archives: Solar System
The Sun’s Closest Neighbor Has Its Own Earth-Sized World
“The search for life on Proxima b comes next.” Continue reading The Sun’s Closest Neighbor Has Its Own Earth-Sized World
Watch a Comet Crash Into the Goddamn Sun
A comet traveling faster than any object in the solar system was just ripped apart by the Sun. Continue reading Watch a Comet Crash Into the Goddamn Sun
Sound and Gravity Waves Combine to Heat Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
The upper atmospheres of gas giants are unaccountably hot. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be the key to understanding why. Continue reading Sound and Gravity Waves Combine to Heat Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Watch this Delightfully Profane Short History of Rockets
“Space is taunting us and Mars looks pretty dope.” Continue reading Watch this Delightfully Profane Short History of Rockets
Four Billion Years Ago, the Moon May Have Taken a Punch from a Protoplanet
How the Man in the Moon got his right eye. Continue reading Four Billion Years Ago, the Moon May Have Taken a Punch from a Protoplanet
Like Dinosaurs, Meteorites Could Have Been Very Different Millions of Years Ago
Geologists discovered a new kind of meteorite they reckon could now be “extinct.” Continue reading Like Dinosaurs, Meteorites Could Have Been Very Different Millions of Years Ago