Welcome to 2016! The early morning sky is where the action is this first week of the year. We were…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 398 – Seeing Things: Emitting, Reflecting, Ionizing Light Sources
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The Sun at 4.5 Billion Years Old is Approaching a Critical Epoch
At a critical point in the life of a star like the Sun its rotation stops ‘slowing down’, according to…
Billionaire Facebook CEO resolves to build a Jarvis AI to become a real life Tony Stark
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has a personal challenge for 2016. The challenge is to build a simple AI to…
Aliens May Have Visited Earth Already, Hillary Clinton Says
Hillary Clinton thinks Earth may have been visited by alien lifeforms already, and she intends to investigate the UFO (unidentified…
Recovered Falcon Booster in Good Shape, Ready for Testing
The used rocket booster SpaceX flew back to Cape Canaveral for an upright landing is undamaged and ready to be…
A step towards reusability
SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket last month, an accomplishment widely heralded as ushering in…
The Moon in the crosshairs (part 3)
Did the threat of a Soviet manned circumlunar mission weigh on NASA’s decision to fly Apollo 8? Dwayne Day examines…
Increasing the profit ratio
SpaceX recovered its first stage from a successful orbital launch. Sam Dinkin assesses progress of SpaceX toward its goal of…
Jurisdiction of the federal courts: An under-appreciated provision of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act
Much of the attention the recently enacted Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act received focused on provisions ranging from asteroid mining…
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