Summer Hits: Martian Water, Asteroid Nukes, Orbital Antimatter!

Here’s a recap of some of this summer’s greatest hits in space news that you might have missed: Water on Mars In an utterly tantalizing development, scientists analyzing imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have announced what appears for all the world to be direct evidence of water on Mars! Because the MRO has […]

Year 2069 on the Moon: Fort Rille

Well, being that the Moon Ball is already past us and I my inbox hasn’t lit up, I imagine I didn’t win anything and it’s safe to submit my concept of “Fort Rille” to the world. What is it, exactly? It’s a concept for a future lunar settlement (year 2069, 100 years after Apollo 11,) […]

Two small asteroids bulls-eye between Earth and Moon tomorrow!

Note: Two asteroids, roughly 30-feet-across and 60-feet-across, will zing between the Earth and the Moon sometime tomorrow, as reported by AstronomyNow. Nothing to be alarmed about, as these guys are small enough that if they hit Earth, they’d burn up and become a “shooting star.” However, it is noteworthy that the two ancient rocks, named […]