A new study reveals just how close humanity is to being an interstellar species
Space
NASA’s Proposed Asteroid Capture Mission Animation
The best two things you can say about this video NASA just posted of its proposed asteroid capture mission is that it’s insanely cool to watch and it will cost you only 4 minutes and 42 seconds of your life
Meteor Strike: Investigating a Cosmic Crime Scene
A new video tells the tale of an unlikely bit of astronomical forensics
The Space Sorority: Fifty Years of Women in Orbit
On the 50th anniversary of Valentina Tereshkova’s history-making flight, the female astronaut is no longer a surprising thing
Before and After: A Satellite Captures Damage and Recovery from Superstorm Sandy
A look from above reveals the long road to full recovery in New York and New Jersey.
Turning Blue: Friday’s Full Moon a ‘Blue Moon’
Designation Resignation
Battleland was at a party this weekend where someone got the X-37B confused with the X-47B. You’d think the Air Force and the Navy would have a Joint Operating Coordination Committee on Aircraft Designation and Nomenclature to avoid fielding two new aircraft with such similar designations (but you’d be wrong: back in the early 1980s …
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“Death Star Dinosaur Aliens Could Rule Galaxy”