https://soundcloud.com/scifri/inside-nasas-planetary-defense-office There are thousands of asteroids and comets that orbit the sun, traveling in the same cosmic neighborhood as the Earth. But what happens if one of these space rocks…
We live on a moving target in a cosmic firing range. Each day, the Earth is bombarded by about a hundred tonnes of space debris. It may sound alarming, but…
The following article appeared in Review Journal on January 22, 2016. Written by Jan Hogan. Excerpt: More than 1,400 student entrepreneurs set out to develop ideas that would have a global…
In the world of planetary science, the University of Arizona Press has a long heritage of publishing incredibly valuable academic volumes on a wide array of topics. The publisher’s “Space…
https://youtu.be/74tyedGkoUc Congratulations to Blue Origin for re-launching their suborbital rocket New Shepard. “The booster reached a maximum altitude of 333,582 feet, or 63 miles, above the Earth’s surface, before landing gently…