by Giles Brown | Jan 21, 2021 | Space
China’s space program might have been slowed by the pandemic in 2020, but it certainly didn’t stop. The year’s highlights included sending a rover to Mars, bringing moon rocks back to Earth, and testing out the next-generation crewed vehicle that should take...
by Giles Brown | Jan 12, 2021 | Space
Ganymede Signal NASA’s Juno space probe has made an exciting discovery in Jupiter’s orbit, according to a NASA ambassador: the small spacecraft reportedly detected an FM radio signal coming from the Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. It’s almost certainly a natural...
by Giles Brown | Jan 11, 2021 | Space
Data Dump Every declassified file that the CIA has on unidentified flying objects — or at least all the files the agency admits to having — is now available online thanks to a decades-long effort to access its declassified records. You can now download the records...
by Giles Brown | Jan 11, 2021 | Space
Bar None SpaceX is building a restaurant and a “futuristic bar” at its Starship testing facility in Boca Chica, Texas, according to CEO Elon Musk. Tim Dodd, better known on social media as Everyday Astronaut, spotted a “Tiki bar” near the company’s Texas facilities...
by Giles Brown | Jan 9, 2021 | Space
The $100 million Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by Russian billionaire, technology and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to come from the nearest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri. This has...
by Giles Brown | Jan 9, 2021 | Space
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn’t fit easily to any known type of object. Among them,...
