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NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION:
December 28, 2018 through January 1, 2019
Drive - The War Zone:
Edwards AFB Test Wing Commander Posted A List Of What A Week In His World Looks Like
Drive - The War Zone:
Here's Our First Look At Sikorsky and Boeing's Defiant Compound Helicopter Prototype
Drive - The War Zone:
Behold These Gorgeous Shots Of An E-2D Hawkeye Testing Its New Refueling Capability With A KC-10
Drive - The War Zone:
Behold Arguably The Most Spectacular Photo Of NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Ever
The Aviationist:
Check Out This Shot Of An F-35 Flying Through The Star Wars Canyon Generating Shock Wave Light Distortion
Aviation History Magazine:
The First Fighter
Aviation History Magazine:
An Air Force Pilot Flies Navy
Washington Post:
Apollo 8: NASA's first moonshot was a bold and terrifying improvisation
GeekWire:
How engineers (and astronauts) made Apollo 8's 'Earthrise' trip to the moon possible 50 years ago
SBS News:
Australia and the Apollo 8 mission that sent a Christmas message from the Moon
Lake County News:
Space News: Fifty years ago – Apollo 8 in lunar orbit
Northwest Indiana Times:
Live from lunar orbit, Christmas was an out-of-this-world celebration 50 years ago
Belleville News-Democrat:
Belleville man helped fish Apollo 8 spacecraft out of Pacific Ocean 50 years ago
Seymour Tribune:
Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman's journey started in Indiana
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
Beating Soviets goal of Hoosier
Bellingham Herald:
'We went all that way to discover the moon and what we really discovered was the Earth'
Business Insider:
NASA's Apollo 8 mission to the moon launched exactly 50 years ago - here is every Apollo mission explained
December 27, 2018
Daily Mail:
NASA has revealed a 'potentially hazardous' hippo-shaped asteroid just flew past Earth - and it won't be visible again for more than 50 years
Scientific American:
With First-Ever Landing on Moon's Farside, China Enters "Luna Incognita"
NASA Spaceflight:
Long March 3C lofts secretive TJSW spacecraft
Daily Mail:
Russian cosmonaut confirms mysterious hole in the International Space Station was drilled from INSIDE - but investigators still don't know how it got there
Spaceflight Insider:
New Horizons cleared for optimal approach to Ultima Thule
Space News:
Urban planning for the Moon Village
Outer Places:
Deadly Moon Dust Is the 'Number One Concern' for Astronauts Returning to Moon
Outer Places:
Apollo 8 Astronaut Criticizes Space Shuttle, Calls NASA's Manned Mars Plans 'Almost Ridiculous'
Outer Places:
WATCH: Take a Virtual Tour of Jezero Crater, the Landing Site for the Mars 2020 Rover
Outer Places:
Satellite Captures Image of Martian Ice Rink in Korolev Crater
Outer Places:
NASA Research Confirms That Saturn Is Losing Its Rings at an 'Extremely Fast' Pace
December 26, 2018
Space News:
Soyuz crew returns to Earth after memorable 6 months in space
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX closes out year with successful GPS satellite launch
Space.com:
Virgin Orbit's Rocket-Launching Plane Keeps Taking Test Flights with LauncherOne
Space.com:
NASA Astronauts Will Still Ride Russian Rockets After US Craft Arrive
Space.com:
New Horizons May Make Yet Another Flyby After Ultima Thule
CHRISTMAS WEEKEND EDITION: December 21, 2018 through December 25, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Watch All Five of the U.S. Military's Fighter Jets Fly in Formation
Popular Mechanics:
Why the Super Guppy Is Such a Badass Plane
Space.com:
Apollo 8 Launched 1st Astronauts Around the Moon 50 Years Ago Today Despite Big Risks
Salon:
Apollo 8, humans' first swing around the Moon, launched 50 years ago today. Here's how it went down.
The Federalist:
What Apollo 8's Mission Overcame To Give America A Christmas Miracle
WGBH:
How MIT Guided NASA Around The Dark Side Of The Moon
The Guardian:
Earthrise: the story behind our planet's most famous photo
Quartz:
Photos: Apollo 8 brought us the moon as never seen before
Popular Mechanics:
Why Apollo 8 Mattered
Space.com:
Watch the Apollo 8 Crew Recount Their Historic Moon Mission in This Epic NASA Video
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Missions to the Moon That Never Left the Drawing Board
Business Insider:
Humanity's coolest achievements in spaceflight since Apollo 8, from walking on the moon to touching interstellar space
December 20, 2018
NASA Spaceflight:
Soyuz MS-09 lands after unprecedented on-orbit repairs, inspections
Space.com:
Arianespace Launches Spy Satellite for France on Soyuz Rocket
Space News:
Arianespace, in final mission of 2018, launches French spy satellite
Space.com:
India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX, Blue Origin Postpone Rocket Launches Again Due to Technical Issues
Space News:
Dream Chaser cleared to begin full-scale production
Space.com:
NASA's InSight Lander Plays the Claw Game on Mars for 1st Time (Video)
Space.com:
New Horizons Spacecraft on Target for Superclose Flyby of Ultima Thule
December 19, 2018
Space.com:
World's First Private Moon Lander Will Carry Israeli Time Capsule
Spaceflight Now:
India preps military communications satellite for launch Wednesday
Space.com:
Air Force Launch Commander 'Not Confident' GPS 3 Satellite Will Lift Off as Scheduled
Spaceflight Insider:
A day of scrubs: No flights today for SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace or ULA
Space.com:
Saturn's Rings Are Beautiful, But They Won't Last
December 18, 2018
New Zealand Herald:
Crew remember the day UFO was spotted over Kaikoura 40 years on
Spaceflight Now:
NASA, Rocket Lab partner on successful satellite launch from New Zealand
Space.com:
Rocket Lab Launches 13 Cubesats on 1st Mission for NASA
Space News:
Rocket Lab launches cubesats for NASA
Space.com:
Blue Origin to Launch Next New Shepard Test Flight Tuesday
Space.com:
What's the Weather On Mars? How NASA's Insight Lander Will Find Out.
Space.com:
NASA's Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!
Space.com:
Tour Jezero Crater! Fly Over the Landing Site of NASA's Next Mars Rover (Video)
Space.com:
'Farout!' Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted
December 17, 2018
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Reaches Space for 1st Time in Historic Test Flight!
Space News:
Virgin Galactic achieves space on SpaceShipTwo test flight
Spaceflight Now:
Virgin Galactic accomplishes milestone test flight to the edge of space
Spaceflight Insider:
VSS Unity conducts test flight that nearly reaches space
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Historic Space Trip Heralds a Coming Age of New US Human Spaceflight Leaps
Space News:
Branson looks ahead to beginning commercial SpaceShipTwo flights
Space.com:
'Billion-Dollar View'! See Incredible Footage from Virgin Galactic's 1st Spaceflight (Video)
Space.com:
In Photos: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity Soars to Space in 4th Powered Test
Space.com:
Where DOES Space Begin? Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Flies Right into the Debate
WEEKEND EDITION: December 14, 2018 through December 16, 2018
Aviation History Magazine:
Pacific Tramps
Spaceflight History:
Purple Pigeon: Mars Multi-Rover Mission (1977)
Popular Science:
7 easy ways you can tell for yourself that the moon landing really happened
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Apollo 8 'Saved 1968'
Time:
Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Historic Moon Voyage 50 Years Later
Vanity Fair:
The Found Footage That Provides a Whole New Look at the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Vanity Fair:
Tracking Down JoAnn Morgan, a Semi-Hidden Figure of U.S. Space History
Space.com:
Secrets from the Far Side of the Moon
Space.com:
The World's Tallest Rockets: How They Stack Up
December 13, 2018
Space.com:
China's Chang'e 4 Spacecraft Enters Lunar Orbit Ahead of 1st-Ever Far Side Landing
Space News:
Chang'e-4 spacecraft enters lunar orbit ahead of first-ever far side landing
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic to Attempt Flight to Space This Week
Space.com:
NASA's New Mars Lander Takes 1st Selfie, Scopes Out Workspace
Space.com:
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Prepares for New Year's Eve Date with Asteroid Bennu
Space.com:
Exploding Stars Helped Kill Earth's Ancient Sea Monsters, New Study Suggests
December 12, 2018
Space.com:
Cosmonauts on Spacewalk Cut Into Soyuz Spacecraft to Inspect Patched Hole
Spaceflight Insider:
Bringing a knife to a spacewalk: Cosmonauts inspect Soyuz leak repair
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Demo Flight 1 'adjusts' 10 days
Space.com:
In Photos: SpaceX's Dragon CRS-16 Cargo Launch and Rocket 'Water Landing'
Space.com:
Mars Rover Opportunity Team 'Still Holding onto a Sliver of Hope'
Space.com:
What's Next for NASA's Voyager 2 in Interstellar Space?
December 11, 2018
Space.com:
It's Official! NASA's Famed Voyager 2 Spacecraft Reaches Interstellar Space
Space News:
Voyager 2 enters interstellar space
Space.com:
Voyager 2: Sailing Among Giant Planets
Universe Today:
Mercury-Bound BepiColombo is About to Start Using the Most Powerful Ion Engines Ever Sent to Space
Space.com:
Asteroid Bennu Had Water! NASA Probe Makes Tantalizing Find
December 10, 2018
Space News:
China launches Chang'e-4 spacecraft for pioneering lunar far side landing mission
Space.com:
China Launches 1st Mission to Land on the Far Side of the Moon
Space.com:
SpaceX Dragon Delivers Cargo (and Christmas Treats) to Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-16 Dragon arrives at ISS after ground-based communications issue
Space.com:
SpaceX's Dragon: First Private Spacecraft to Reach Space Station
Space News:
NASA and SpaceX still aiming for January commercial crew test flight
Space.com:
Last-Minute Glitch Delays US Spy Satellite Launch
Space.com:
Chang'e 4 in Pictures: China's Mission to the Moon's Far Side
Space.com:
Secrets from the Far Side of the Moon
WEEKEND EDITION: December 7, 2018 through December 9, 2018
Space.com:
Nibiru: The Nonexistent Planet
Drive - The War Zone:
What It's Like To Work Inside The Navy's Secretive China Lake Weapons Development Center
Aviation History Magazine:
The Tommy Scout
Aviation History Magazine:
Mitsubishi G4M: Why Betty Bombed
Aviation History Magazine:
North American T-6: A Texan by Any Other Name
Aviation History Magazine:
MiG: Learning By Trial and Error
Aviation History Magazine:
Boeing B-52: Stratosaurus
Forbes:
How Galileo Discovered Mountains On The Moon
Pilot Magazine:
The history of aviation in California
Spaceflight History:
Exploring Mars from Pole to Pole: MESUR Network (1991)
Spaceflight History:
Near-Term and Long-Term Goals: Space Station and Lunar Base (1983-1984)
Aviation History Magazine:
Able and Baker
Al.com:
Huntsville's giant rocket getting a giant paint job
Space.com:
In Photos: Gemini 7 Makes 1st Crewed Rendezvous with Gemini 6A
Biography:
Who Are the Astronauts Featured in the Movie 'First Man'?
Miami Herald:
The last man to walk on the moon went into space on a December day. Here's what happened
Space Review:
Spooky Apollo: Apollo 8 and the CIA
December 6, 2018
Daily Mail:
Brightest comet in the night sky set for close flyby next week, when it could be visible to the naked eye
Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station, But Misses Rocket Landing
Space.com:
Watch This SpaceX Rocket Splash Down During Failed Landing Attempt (Videos)
Popular Mechanics:
Good News: The New ISS Robot Is Already Going Rogue
Space.com:
Tiny Satellites Pose a Swarm of Opportunities - And Threats
Outer Places:
China Has Been Quietly Planning a Dark Side of the Moon Landing For This Weekend
Space.com:
NASA's Insight Mars Lander Raises Robotic Arm in Touchdown Triumph Photo
Forbes:
New Science Suggests Biblical City Of Sodom Was Smote By An Exploding Meteor
December 5, 2018
Space News:
Dedicated rideshare Falcon 9 launch raises satellite tracking concerns
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX cargo launch slips a day after rodent experiment snag
Spaceflight Insider:
Rats! SpaceX CRS-16 mission slips again!
Space.com:
SpaceX Just Misses Catching Rocket Nose Cone - But Still Plans to Reuse It
Space News:
Boundary of space being reconsidered as Virgin Galactic test program advances
Popular Mechanics:
There Could Be Hundreds of Interstellar Asteroids Lurking in Our Solar System
December 4, 2018
Space.com:
Liftoff! Russia Launches 1st Crewed Soyuz Rocket to Space Station Since Dramatic Abort
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz crew enjoys problem-free launch, docks with space station
Space News:
Soyuz launches new crew to space station
Space.com:
SpaceX Rocket Makes Historic 3rd Launch Into Space with 64 Satellites On Board
Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Artist's Satellite Memorializing First Black Astronaut
Space News:
SpaceX launches all-smallsat Falcon 9 mission
Space.com:
Soyuz Return-to-Flight Launch Photos: Expedition 58 Crew Lifts Off for Space Station
Space.com:
Launch Photos: SpaceX Falcon 9 Lofts 64 Satellites (and Lands) on Historic 3rd Flight
Space.com:
These Astronaut Photos of a Soyuz Launch from Space Are Just Incredible!
Space News:
Crew from aborted Soyuz mission to get second chance at ISS mission
Space.com:
NASA Astronaut Nick Hague Gets New Space Assignment After Scary Launch Abort
Space News:
SpaceX cargo launch slips a day after rodent experiment snag
Space.com:
Lasers, Crystals and 36,000 Worms Will Ride a SpaceX Dragon to Space Station
Space.com:
Hello, Bennu! NASA Asteroid-Sampling Probe Reaches Its Target Space Rock
Space.com:
NASA Arrives at Bennu Today, But Exactly Where Is That Asteroid?
December 3, 2018
News.com Australia:
Teacher reveals creepy details of Aussie UFO sighting in rare audio
Daily Express:
Meteorite warning: ASTONISHING moment blue FIREBALL rips through sky
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz crew rocket arrives on the pad for first time since dramatic launch abort
Space.com:
NASA Astronaut May Be Among Last to Launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome
Outer Places:
Virgin Galactic Says They'll Fly Their First Astronauts Into Space Before Christmas
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX set to launch CRS-16 Dragon to ISS
Space.com:
SpaceX Postpones Launch of 1st Falcon 9 Rocket to Fly 3 Times for Booster Checks
Spaceflight Now:
Rockot launches Russian military satellites
Spaceflight Insider:
One of the final missions for Rokot booster lifts off from Plesetsk
Space.com:
NASA's InSight Lander on Mars Just Set a Solar Power Record!
Space.com:
The Space Party Continues: NASA Probe Arrives at Asteroid Bennu Monday
Space.com:
Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago
WEEKEND EDITION: November 30, 2018 through December 2, 2018
Outer Places:
AI Inspired by HAL 9000 Managed Not to Kill Its Simulated Astronaut Crew
Popular Mechanics:
Watch a C-5 Galaxy Swallow a Satellite Whole
Drive - The War Zone:
Two USAF Fighter Wings Line Up 35 F-35s During Type's First-Ever 'Elephant Walk' Exercise (Updated)
Popular Mechanics:
Swedish Pilots Win Medals for Top Secret 1987 SR-71 Incident
We Are The Mighty:
The insane USAF flying saucer-shaped missile
Drive - The War Zone:
This Is What A Northrop F-23A Would've Looked Like If It Had Beaten Lockheed's F-22
Undark:
When Russia Won the Space Race: A Cold War History, in Pictures
Space.com:
Soviet Robot-Retrieved Moon Rocks Sell for $855,000 at Sotheby's
Real Clear Life:
How Historic First Mission to Mars Surface... Ended in a Crash Landing
Geek.com:
The Forgotten Genius of the Buran-Energia
Tass:
Buran space shuttle celebrates 30th anniversary of milestone flight
Discovery Magazine:
Why Cosmonauts Have Never Splashed Down
Hackaday:
The Flight of the Seagull: Valentina Tereshkova, Cosmonaut
Wired:
The Russian Town That's Now a Shrine to Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Atlas Obscura:
Virgil I. Gus Grissom Rocket Monument
Space.com:
Gemini 3 in Photos: The 1st Crewed Flight of NASA's 2-Person Spaceship
Popular Mechanics:
Houston, We Have a Resurrection: How Mission Control Came Back from the Brink
Auto Classics:
Lunar Rover: Why Earth's most significant car is on the Moon
Seeker:
The Crazy Things Astronauts Did to Survive the First Moon Landing
Air & Space Magazine:
The Man Who Won the Moon Race
November 29, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX Delays Historic Small-Satellite Launch (Again)
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX postpones California launch to wait for better weather
Universe Today:
One of the Most Exciting Parts of InSight is Actually the Tiny Cubesats Tagging Along for the Ride and Their Role in the Mission
Spaceflight Insider:
MarCO CubeSats perform successfully during InSight landing
Space.com:
Why Is NASA Looking for 'Marsquakes'?
Space.com:
Back in Action! Recovered Hubble Telescope Nabs Nifty New Picture
November 28, 2018
History.com:
Meet J. Allen Hynek, the Astronomer Who First Classified UFO 'Close Encounters'
Bloomberg:
The Forgotten Legend of Silicon Valley's Flying Saucer Man
Space.com:
Mars InSight Stuck the Landing. Here's the First Thing It Did.
Outer Places:
NASA Has Chosen an Ancient Crater as the Next Mars Rover Landing Site
Spaceflight Now:
NASA announces target date for first SpaceX Crew Dragon flight
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars moon got its grooves from rolling stones, study suggests
Outer Places:
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found Aboard International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Has a drug-resistant disease been discovered on the International Space Station?
Popular Science:
The International Space Station is crawling with bacteria and some may be harmful
November 27, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's InSight mission lands on Mars to study planet's hidden interior
Space.com:
Touchdown on Mars! NASA's InSight Lands to Peer Inside the Red Planet
Spaceflight Insider:
JPL's Lucky Nuts work! InSight lander safely touches down on Mars
Popular Mechanics:
NASA's InSight Sticks Its Martian Landing
Space.com:
InSight Mars Lander Unfurls Solar Wings Amid 'Quiet Beauty' of Red Planet
Space.com:
Behold! Here's the 1st Photo from Mars from NASA's InSight Lander.
Space.com:
This Farewell Photo of Mars by an Interplanetary Cubesat Is Absolutely Amazing
EXTENDED THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EDITION:
November 20, 2018 through November 26, 2018
Repeating the best of the year so far...
Berkshire Eagle:
This Story in History - From the July 7, 1947, Eagle 'Saucers' seen here but reports debunked
History.com:
The Unsolved Mystery of the Lubbock Lights UFO Sightings
History.com:
This Scoutmaster Had a Run-in with a UFO. The Kids Saw it Too.
History.com:
When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick
History.com:
Two Pilots Saw a UFO. Why Did the Air Force Destroy the Report?
History.com:
When UFOs Buzzed the White House and the Air Force Blamed the Weather
History.com:
When a U.S. Fighter Pilot Got into a Dogfight with a UFO
History.com:
The First Alien-Abduction Account Described a Medical Exam with a Crude Pregnancy Test
History.com:
Why Mysterious Green Fireballs Worried the U.S. Government in 1948
History.com:
The UFO Sightings That Launched 'Men in Black' Mythology
History.com:
In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Terrified 6 Kids, a Mom, a Dog - and the Nation
Bloody Disgusting:
Let's Examine the Real-Life UFO Encounter That Inspired 'Critters'
Nine Network Australia:
Westall flying saucer: One of Australia's baffling mysteries unsolved 52 years on
Baltimore Sun:
'No place to run': Loch Raven Reservoir's forgotten UFO, 60 years later
Beaver County Times:
The Parajournal: Famous 86-mile UFO chase in 1966 still defies Air Force 'explanation'
History.com:
Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained
November 19, 2018
Space.com:
Big New Indian Rocket Launches Satellite, Setting Stage for Moon Mission
Space.com:
Robotic Russian Cargo Ship Delivers Tons of Supplies to Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-10 arrives at International Space Station
Space News:
Virgin Orbit performs first captive carry flight
Space.com:
SpaceX Delays Historic Third Launch of Used Rocket (and Its Flock of Satellites)
Space.com:
Here's How NASA's Mars InSight Will Phone Home After Its Dramatic Landing)
Space.com:
Farewell, Kepler: NASA Shuts Down Prolific Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
Popular Mechanics:
Meet the Spacecraft That's About to Play Tag with an Asteroid
WEEKEND EDITION: November 16, 2018 through November 18, 2018
Drive - The War Zone:
Listen As Multiple Airline Pilots Report Very High-Speed Unidentified Objects Over Ireland (Updated)
Outer Places:
Russia Reveals Plans for a Manned, Nuclear-Powered Rocket Capable of Interstellar Flight
Drive - The War Zone:
This Isn't An Early B-2 Cockpit Mockup, It's For A Previously Undisclosed Special Ops Transport
The Aviationist:
Everything You Need To Know (And Probably Don't) About The X-15 Flight Shown In The Opening Scene Of "First Man"
Spaceflight History:
Another Look at Staged Reentry: Janus (1962-1966)
Hot Hardware:
NASA's Original Apollo Moon Landing Guidance Computer Is Being Restored
Florida Today:
A view of Earth from space brings unifying moment to year of turmoil
Metropolitan Airport News:
Astronaut Walt Cunningham Made $660 on Apollo 7 Mission
Collect Space:
Apollo 7 astronaut recounts splashdown at 50th anniversary gala
Seeker:
How Apollo 8 Survived the Risky Trip to the Far Side of the Moon
Daily Mail:
'There was tension, anxiety and worry': Ex-NASA astronaut relives the moment he watched the Apollo moon landing while trying to comfort Buzz Aldrin's nervous family
November 15, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
India's GSLV Mk.3 aces test launch, clearing way for lunar mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Northrop Grumman preps S.S. John Young for flight to ISS
Space.com:
Bad Weather Forces NASA, Northrop Grumman to Delay Cargo Launch to Space Station
Space.com:
Watch Northrop Grumman Roll Its Antares Rocket to the Pad for Launch! (Time-Lapse Video)
Outer Places:
Astronomers Spot Two Starless Rogue Planets Drifting Through Space
November 14, 2018
Space News:
ISS science not affected by smaller crew
Space.com:
Japanese Space Capsule Prototype Survives Fiery Fall to Earth
Space News:
China developing new launch vehicle for human spaceflight, future moon missions
Space.com:
Rocket Lab's 1st Commercial Launch in Pictures: 'It's Business Time'!
Daily Mail:
Mysterious 'washboard' and 'fluted' ridges on Pluto prove the dwarf planet was home to frozen GLACIERS of nitrogen four billion years ago
Space.com:
Hale-Bopp: The Bright and Tragic Comet
November 13, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Certified to Launch NASA's Most Precious Science Missions
Space News:
Rocket Lab performs first commercial launch
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket Lab delivers seven payloads to orbit, plans next launch in December
Spaceflight Insider:
Finally 'business time' for Rocket Lab with 7 payloads launched
Space.com:
NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars Is Rolling (and Drilling) Again
Space.com:
Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars - And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life
Space.com:
As the Asteroid Turns: NASA Probe Snaps Video of Spinning Bennu
ARMISTICE-VETERANS DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
November 9, 2018 through November 12, 2018
The Aviationist:
Check Out This New Video of Russia's Sukhoi Su-57 Doing A Low-Level Photo Shoot
The Aviationist:
T-6 Texan II Aircraft (Including One In B-25 Colors) Take Part In A Rather Unusual "Elephant Walk" at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas
Space.com:
The History of Rockets
BBC News:
The stray dogs that led the space race
Post-Intelligencer:
Space Twins Triumphant
Space.com:
Mariner 9: First Spacecraft to Orbit Mars
Houston Chronicle:
NASA's Apollo era mission control consoles return to Houston restored
History.com:
How Landing the First Man on the Moon Cost Dozens of Lives
Digital Trends:
The worst rocket crashes in history
History.com:
From Sputnik to Spacewalking: 7 Soviet Space Firsts
November 8, 2018
Space.com:
Japanese Cargo Ship Departs Space Station. Next Stop: Oblivion.
Space.com:
SpaceX to Build 'Mini BFR' Version of Mars Rocket to Fly on Falcon 9, Elon Musk Says
Daily Mail:
NASA astronauts begin training in Elon Musk's SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule - complete with 'Stormtrooper' suits
Daily Mail:
China unveils 'Heavenly Palace' space station that will soon become the only crewed lab in orbit when the ISS retires
Astrobiology Magazine:
The Mars InSight Landing Site Is Just Plain Perfect
Outer Places:
One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe Discovered in Earth's Backyward
November 7, 2018
Daily Mail:
Russian space bosses reveal computer bug on the International Space Station (and say they can fix it by switching it off and on again)
Space News:
Soyuz launches European weather satellite
Daily Mail:
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown within 15 millions miles of the solar surface and become the first man-made object to penetrate the sun's outer atmosphere as its completes its first flyby
Space.com:
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just Made Its First Close Pass by the Sun!
Spaceflight Now:
Parker Solar Probe sets records during first encounter with the sun
Daily Mail:
Curiosity is on the move again one month after NASA switched its 'brain' to a backup computer
November 6, 2018
Bates College News:
Look What We Found: Stephanie Kelley-Romano's alien pop-up book
Spaceflight Insider:
China maintains launch pace with another Beidou mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Pegasus launch set for no earlier than Wednesday, but data review continues
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz rocket rolls out for launch of European weather satellite
Daily Mail:
Mysterious interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua could be a giant solar sail 'sent from another civilization to look for signs of life,' claim astronomers
November 5, 2018
Jet Propulsion Laboratory News:
NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End
Space.com:
It's Sunset for NASA's Dawn, But Asteroid Belt Probe's Legacy Lives On
Popular Science:
Kepler finally ran out of gas, but it will always fuel our planet-hunting ambitions
Spaceflight Insider:
A spaceflight era closes with end of Dawn and Kepler missions
Space.com:
Tiny Lakes Once Pooled on Ancient Mars, Only to Fade Away
Space.com:
SpaceX's 'Starman' and Its Tesla Roadster Are Now Beyond Mars
Space.com:
SpaceX's Epic Road Trip Photos: Starman Rides a Tesla Roadster Across Space
Spaceflight Now:
Dramatic on-board video shows moment of Soyuz booster failure
WEEKEND EDITION: November 2, 2018 through November 4, 2018
Drive - The War Zone:
China's Lunar Satellites Could Stab U.S. Early Warning Satellites In The Back
Popular Science:
Here's why NASA is working on a concept crewed mission to Venus
Popular Mechanics:
The Air Force Is Actually Considering Rocket Launches to Move Cargo Around the Globe
Drive - The War Zone:
Censored Craft Near Hangar Appears In Satellite Image Of Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport
Air & Space Magazine:
Abort!
San Diego Union-Tribune:
From the Archives October 4, 1962: Schirra's turn in space
Seeker:
Apollo 1's Fatal Fire Almost Ended the Program
Space.com:
Walter Cunningham: Apollo 7 Astronaut
Space.com:
Donn Eisele: Apollo 7 Pilot
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: How Surfers Saved the Moon Mission
Inside Science:
Thousands of Hours of Newly Released Audio Tell the Backstage Story of Apollo 11 Moon Mission
CNN:
How NASA's Apollo space missions changed photographic history
Houston Chronicle:
'Giant leap' for space collectibles: Neil Armstrong's personal collection goes on auction block
CheatSheet:
Iconic Photos of Neil Armstrong, the First Man on the Moon
Drive - The War Zone:
Historic Topgun Hangar At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Is Notoriously Haunted
November 2, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids given the go ahead
Space.com:
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Is Done. What Will Happen to It?
Outer Spaces:
Watch NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Parachute Deploy at Twice the Speed of Sound
Space.com:
Inside 3 Mars Meteorites: A Different Path for 'Building Blocks of Life'?
November 1, 2018
Daily Mail:
The rover that will reveal what's REALLY under the surface of Mars: NASA begins final preparations for InSight's 13,000mph descent to the red planet on November 26th
Daily Mail:
Russia blames aborted Soyuz mission that left astronauts forced to abandon their rocket 50 miles up on 'faulty sensor'
Daily Mail:
Russia set to resume manned Soyuz launches on December 3rd following failed rocket launch in bid to avoid the space station being left unmanned
Space.com:
NASA Will Keep Trying to Revive the Silent Mars Rover Opportunity Through January
October 31, 2018
Universe Today:
Virgin Orbit Shows off its "Launcher One", a Rocket Carried by an Airplane
Space News:
Hubble resumes observations after gyro repaired
Space.com:
Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Action After Gyroscope Glitch
Spaceflight Insider:
Kepler Space Telescope concludes mission that discovered thousands of far-flung worlds
Space.com:
RIP, Kepler: NASA's Revolutionary Planet-Hunting Telescope Runs Out of Fuel
Space News:
Kepler planet hunter ends operations after exhausting fuel
Space.com:
Sotheby's to Offer Soviet Robot-Retrieved Moon Rocks at Auction, Again
Space.com:
Pluto's Biggest Moon Could Give an Orbiter an (Almost) Free Ride
Space.com:
'War of the Worlds' Radio Broadcast Terrified Listeners 80 Years Ago. Would E.T. Contact Cause Panic Today?
October 30, 2018
Space.com:
Stratolaunch's Rocket Carrier, the Biggest Airplane Ever Built, Aces Fastest Runway Test Yet
Space.com:
Landspace Fails to Reach Orbit with Milestone Private Chinese Launch
Space.com:
Watch NASA Break a Speed Record in This Mars Parachute Test
Space.com:
A NASA Spacecraft Just Broke the Record for Closest Approach to Sun
ALL HALLOWS EVE WEEKEND EDITION:
October 26, 2018 through October 29, 2018
Ancient Origins:
Ancient Demons and Their Infernal Legacy
Ancient Origins:
Decapitating Demons May Be the Oldest Fearsome Entities of Ancient Egypt
Atlas Obscura:
The Original 'Nightmare' Was a Demon That Sat on Your Chest and Suffocated You
Mental Floss:
8 Historic Accounts of Werewolves
Ancient Origins:
Witch Familiars, Spirit Guardians and Demons
Atlas Obscura:
A Brief History of the 'Danse Macabre'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Visit the Site of the Biggest Witch Trial in History
History.com:
Women Weren't the Only Victims of the Salem Witch Trials
Mental Floss:
5 Forgotten Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm
Mental Floss:
Flip Through Mary Shelley's Draft Notebooks for 'Frankenstein'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Children Used to Learn About Death and Damnation With Their ABCs
Atlas Obscura:
The DIY Carvings Designed to Deter 17th-Century Witches
Smithsonian Magazine:
Burials Unearthed in Poland Open the Casket on The Secret Lives of Vampires
Atlas Obscura:
How the Real Madame Tussaud Built a Business Out of Beheadings
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet Mr. Mumler, the Man Who "Captured" Lincoln's Ghost on Camera
History.net:
A Look Back at the Crime Scene Photos That Changed How Murder is Documented
History.net:
Thank This Man For Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume
Flashbak:
Halloween Catalog Pages: 1920s-1950s
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Austrian Ossuary Holds Hundreds of Elaborately Hand-Painted Skulls
Atlas Obscura:
Ritual Skulls and Other Magical Objects, in Photos
Atlas Obscura:
11 Hidden Spots to Enter the Underworld
October 25, 2018
Space.com:
Russia Launches Military Satellite in First Flight Since Soyuz Rocket Failure
Space.com:
Virgin Orbit Just Attached a Rocket to Its Cosmic Girl Mothership for the 1st Time
Popular Mechanics:
NASA's Return to the Moon Could Include a Reusable Lunar Lander
Space.com:
1 Month to Mars! NASA's InSight Lander Nearing Red Planet Touchdown
Space.com:
NASA to Soon End Active Efforts to Restore Contact with Opportunity
Space.com:
There's a Strange Cloud on Mars Right Now, and It's Just Hanging Around
Space.com:
'It's Going to Be Historic': New Horizons Team Prepares for Epic Flyby of Ultima Thule
October 24, 2018
Baltimore Sun:
'No place to run': Loch Raven Reservoir's forgotten UFO, 60 years later
Palm Beach Post:
Happy Halloween! UFOs over Lantana?
Warwick Daily News:
UFO Mystery: Vanished pilot's ominous prophecy
WFMY:
'Fireball' Streaks Across Winston-Salem Sky
Space News:
NASA to soon end active efforts to restore contact with Opportunity
Space.com:
Russian Soyuz Rocket Will Launch Astronauts to Space Station by Christmas, NASA Chief Says
Spacelfight Insider:
Why are SpaceX and Boeing's Commercial Crew Program spacesuit designs different?
Space.com:
How Did an Oddball Planet Like Mercury Form?
October 23, 2018
Space.com:
Roscosmos to Complete Soyuz Accident Investigation This Month
Space.com:
NASA Tests Astronaut Survival Systems for Orion Splashdowns
Space.com:
Hubble Space Telescope Nearly Ready for Action Again
Space.com:
Tiny Cubesat Snaps Photo of Mars for 1st Time Ever
Universe Today:
How the Hubble Unlocked the Universe
October 22, 2018
EarthSky:
Small asteroid passed closer than TV satellites
C|Net:
Truck-size asteroid makes fourth-closest pass by Earth on record
Sora News:
Mysterious fireball flies across the sky over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido (Video)
Space.com:
After Soyuz Abort, Russia Wants 3 Successful Robotic Flights Before Next Crew Launch
Spaceflight Now:
Air Force's fourth AEHF communications satellite successfully launched from Florida
Space News:
Ariane 5 launches BepiColombo to Mercury
Space.com:
BepiColombo Spacecraft Launch on 7-Year Trek to Mercury for Europe and Japan
Spaceflight Now:
Ariane 5 launches two satellites on 7-year voyage to Mercury
Spaceflight Insider:
Ariane 5 rocket begins BepiColombo's journey to Mercury
Space.com:
BepiColombo's Path: Why Does It Take So Long to Get to Mercury?
Space.com:
Welcome to Space! BepiColombo Spacecraft Headed to Mercury Snap 1st Photo
Space.com:
This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
Space.com:
Curiosity Rover on Mars Exercises Its 'New' Brain (Photo)
WEEKEND EDITION: October 19, 2018 through October 21, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
How American Space Launch Left Europe in the Dust
Space.com:
X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 400 Days on Latest Mystery Mission
Drive - The War Zone:
China's Lunar Satellites Could Stab U.S. Early Warning Satellites In The Back
Drive - The War Zone:
USAF, Army, and Navy Join Forces To Field America's First Operational Hypersonic Weapon
Drive - The War Zone:
Japan Is Taking A Two-Step Approach To Fielding Its First Operational Hypersonic Weapons
Popular Mechanics:
The CIA Gave U-2 Pilots a Special Diet So They Wouldn't Have To Poop
Muckrock:
Cooking with FOIA: The CIA's TOP SECRET anti-poop diet
Air & Space Magazine:
Return of the MiG-17
C|Net:
This NASA rocket plane was our first space vehicle, and it got left behind
Space.com:
Fisher Space Pen Celebrates 50 Years in Space with Apollo 7 Pen Set
Space.com:
Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
The Flight of Sigma Seven
Space.com:
Wally Schirra: Mercury, Gemini & Apollo Astronaut
Space.com:
Saturn V Rockets & Apollo Spacecraft
New Atlas:
Remembering Apollo 7: Milestones, mutiny and the mission that paved the way for the Moon landing
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Apollo 7: Return to Flight
Astronomy Magazine:
Apollo 7: NASA's first mini-mutiny in space
Atlas Obscura:
Remembering Apollo 7: Milestones, mutiny and the mission that paved the way for the Moon landing
History.com:
The Apollo Mission That Nearly Ended With a Mutiny in Space
Air & Space Magazine:
The Flight (and Fights) of Apollo 7
Washington Post:
The most profound broadcast in human history came from space
Mental Floss:
17 Facts About the Apollo Program
Wired:
Majestic Photos Capture the Golden Age of the Space Shuttle Program
Forbes:
18,000 Pages Of NASA Archives Uncover JFK's Speech Strategy That Inspired The Moon Landing
October 18, 2018
Beaver County Times:
The Parajournal: Famous 86-mile UFO chase in 1966 still defies Air Force 'explanation'
Daily Mail:
China reveals plan to launch an 'artificial moon' to light up city skies in 2020
Space.com:
Jam-Resistant US Military Communications Satellite Lifts Off in Midnight-Hour Launch
Space.com:
What It Felt Like to Be Aboard the Failed Rocket Launch to the Space Station
Universe Today:
Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star
AccuWeather:
Debris from Halley's Comet to spark Orionid meteor shower this weekend
October 17, 2018
Space.com:
Crew of Failed Soyuz Rocket Will Fly Again Next Spring, Russia's Space Chief Says
Daily Mail:
'Like a concrete block on your chest': Astronauts reveal what they went through during miraculous escape during failed Soyuz space launch
Spaceflight Now:
NASA astronaut unfazed by frightening launch abort
Space.com:
NASA Astronaut Nick Hague 'Rolls with Punches' After Harrowing Soyuz Launch Failure
Space.com:
NASA Wants to Send Humans to Venus, to Live in Airships Floating on Clouds
Space.com:
Where to Land on the Red Planet? That's the Choice for Mars 2020 Rover Team.
October 16, 2018
Space News:
Soyuz failure to affect ISS utilization
Space.com:
Boeing Plans Changes for Upper Stages NASA's Space Launch System Megarocket
Space News:
China to launch unmanned test flight of next-generation crewed spacecraft in 2019
Space.com:
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Bouncing Back from Glitch
October 15, 2018
South Mississippi Sun Herald:
I launched a new investigation into the 1973 Coast UFO abduction story. Do you believe?
Spaceflight Now:
Two satellites with secretive missions launched by China
Space.com:
Soyuz Space Crew Launch Failure 2018: Full Coverage
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz failure probe narrows focus on collision at booster separation
Spaceflight Insider:
Collision of rocket components blamed for Soyuz MS-10 abort
Spaceflight Now:
Safety panel says much work left to do before commercial crew ships fly
Space.com:
NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Wakes Up Again
Space.com:
Hubble Space Telescope Should Be Back in Action Soon
Space.com:
Another NASA Space Telescope Sidelined by Glitch
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope enters safe mode
Space.com:
Opportunity Rover Still Silent on Mars, 4 Months After Epic Dust Storm Began
WEEKEND EDITION: October 12, 2018 through October 14, 2018
Popular Science:
Two astronauts just survived a 'ballistic descent' in a Russian rocket. Here's everything we know.
Daily Mail:
'That was a quick flight': How astronauts kept ice cool while their rocket malfunctioned at 4,970mph and plummeted back to Earth in harrowing 7G 'ballistic re-entry' before hugging their loved-ones on the landing pad as Russia opens CRIMINAL probe
Space.com:
Astronaut, Cosmonaut in 'Good Health' After Surviving Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure
Wired:
A Faulty Booster Might Have Sabotaged a Soyuz Rocket Launch
Space.com:
Here's What Today's Soyuz Launch Failure Means for Space Station Astronauts
Daily Mail:
NASA considers abandoning the space station: Plans to leave orbiting outpost unmanned being 'dusted off' following Soyuz failure
Space.com:
Empty Space Station? NASA Prepares for the Worst (but Hopes for the Best) After Soyuz Abort
Space.com:
A Russian Soyuz Rocket Launch Failed, But Its Abort Safety System Saved Lives
Space.com:
Here's What the Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch Looked Like to an Astronaut in Space
Space.com:
In Photos: Space Station Crew's Harrowing Abort Landing After Soyuz Launch Failure
RT:
Soyuz SOS: History of the Russian spacecraft's incidents & accidents (PHOTOS)
Space.com:
Alan Shepard: First American in Space
Space.com:
Apollo's First Crewed Trip to Space Happened 50 Years Ago
Space.com:
Apollo 8: NASA's First Crewed Trip Around the Moon in Pictures
October 11, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Russians plan Thursday launch of two to space station
Space.com:
New Space Station Crew Launches Thursday: Watch It Live!
Outer Places:
NASA's First Manned Flight With a SpaceX Rocket Is Set For June 2019
Space.com:
Michigan Man Discovers His Barn Doorstop Is Actually a Meteorite Worth $100,000
Outer Places:
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Is About To Slip Beyond The Boundaries Of Our Solar System And Into Interstellar Space
October 10, 2018
Space.com:
In Photos: SpaceX's Fantastic Nighttime Launch of SAOCOM-1 & Rocket Landing!
Space.com:
'Definitely Not Aliens': These Photos of SpaceX's Night Rocket Launch and Landing Are Amazing!
Space.com:
Hubble Space Telescope Malfunction Won't Last Long, NASA Says
Space.com:
Jupiter Moon Europa's Jagged Ice Towers Could Imperil Robot Landers
October 9, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-08 crew completes 197-day space station mission
Space.com:
Space Station Crew Returns Safely to Earth After 197 Days in Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz brings three station fliers back to Earth
Space.com:
SpaceX Aces First-Ever Rocket Landing in California After Spectacular Satellite Launch
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX expands range of landing sites with SAOCOM-1 flight
Space.com:
China Could Be Facing Space Station Delay, Tiangong-2 To Be Deorbited
Space.com:
Engine Burn Puts New Horizons on Track for New Year's Flyby of Ultima Thule
Space.com:
RIP, MASCOT: Hopping Lander Meets Its End on Asteroid Ryugu
Space.com:
These Photos of Asteroid Ryugu from the Successful MASCOT Landing Are Amazing
Space.com:
Discovery of Potential Exomoon Raises Hopes of Real-Life Pandora or Endor
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY WEEKEND:
October 5, 2018 through October 8, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Russia's MiG-31 Spotted With Possible Anti-Satellite Missile
Space.com:
Why the Space Tourism Industry Needs Flight Attendants
Space.com:
Inspiring NASA Videos Celebrate 60 Years of Space Exploration
Popular Science:
To celebrate NASA's 60th birthday, 21 vintage photos from space
Space.com:
Sixty Years Ago, NASA Opened for Business with First Try at Moonshot
Space.com:
Apollo 15: The Moon Buggy Debuts
Space.com:
Apollo 16: Exploring the Highlands
Space.com:
Apollo 17: The Last Men on the Moon
October 4, 2018
Space.com:
US Air Force: Don't Worry About Those Weird Lights and Booms Sunday, It's Just a Spaceship
Space.com:
SpaceX's 1st Dragon Spaceship for Astronauts Won't Fly Until 2019
Space.com:
Going Up? Waiting for the Space Elevator
Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Activates Backup 'Brain' on Mars
Space.com:
Destination, Asteroid: NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Starts Final Approach
Space.com:
Oort Cloud: The Outer Solar System's Icy Shell
Space.com:
Voyager 2 May Be Leaving the Solar System Soon, NASA Says
October 3, 2018
Space.com:
Tiny German Spacecraft Poised for Hopping Landing on Asteroid Ryugu
Space.com:
New Horizons Sails Through 'Final Exam' Before Ultima Thule Encounter
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA tests key system of $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope
Spaceflight Insider:
Titan First-Ever Detected Dust Storms Proves the Moon to be More Earth-like than Ever
Space.com:
Should We Land on Venus Again? Scientists Are Trying to Decide
October 2, 2018
Space.com:
NASA's Aging Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Is Struggling to See Straight
Space.com:
Jupiter's Moons: Facts About the Largest Jovian Moons
Space.com:
Five Reasons to Forget Mars for Now and Return to the Moon
Outer Places:
The Voyage to Mars May Riddle Astronauts with Cancer, New Study Says
October 1, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese cargo ship reaches space station
Spaceflight Insider:
Japanese Kounotori 7 brings food, science and new hardware to ISS
Space.com:
This Small Japanese Re-Entry Capsule Is Ready for a Test Flight from Space Station
Space.com:
How the Curiosity Rover Detected a Monster Mars Dust Storm Will Surprise You
Popular Science:
Watch a movie made by a robot - on the surface of an asteroid
Outer Places:
The Skull-Shaped "Death Comet" Will Pass by Earth Again After Halloween
WEEKEND EDITION: September 28, 2018 through September 30, 2018
Space.com:
WWII Bombs Had Rippling Effect on the Edge of Space
Air & Space Magazine:
Great War Stories
BBC News:
The Boeing 747: The plane that shrank the world
Space.com:
Delta II Rocket: 30 Years of Launches
Spaceflight History:
Keep My Memory Green: Skill Retention During Long-Duration Spaceflight (1968)
Space.com:
How NASA's Gemini Spacecraft Worked (Infographic)
Air & Space Magazine:
The Flight (and Fights) of Apollo 7
Space.com:
Apollo 12: The Pinpoint Mission
The Incline:
11 must-see features at Heinz History Center's new Apollo 11 exhibit
Newsweek:
NASA 60th Anniversary: 60 Amazing Facts About the Space Agency and the Cosmos
September 27, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
100th flight of Ariane 5 rocket orbits 2 telecommunications satellites
Outer Spaces:
Found! NASA's Orbiter Has Spotted the Unresponsive Mars Opportunity Rover
Space News:
Where no commercial satellite bus has gone before
Space.com:
Hop, Don't Roll: How the Tiny Japanese Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu Move
Space.com:
Why Alternate Universes Might Also Host Life Around their Stars
September 26, 2018
Space.com:
NASA Mars Orbiter Snaps Selfie to Mark 4 Years at Red Planet
Outer Spaces:
Japan's Hayabusa2 Rovers Delivers First Images From Historic Asteroid Landing
Space.com:
Did a Huge Impact Blast Out Moons of Mars? Old Data Bolsters Theory
Space.com:
Dust Storms Rage on Saturn Moon Titan, Just Like on Mars and Earth
Space.com:
'Oumuamua Isn't from Our Solar System. Now We May Know Which Star It Came From
September 25, 2018
Space.com:
NASA Balloon Observes Glowing Blue Clouds in Earth's Upper Atmosphere (Video)
Space.com:
Are Japanese Hopping Robots Safe on Asteroid Ryugu?
Space.com:
The New BFR: How SpaceX's Giant Rocket-Spaceship Combo for Mars Has Changed
Spaceflight Insider:
Curiosity Mars rover experiencing memory problem
Space.com:
Planet Earth Wobbles As It Spins, and Now Scientists Know Why
September 24, 2018
Space.com:
Japanese Cargo Ship Launches Toward Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
New sample return capability launches with Japanese space station freighter
Space.com:
NASA's New Planet-Hunting Telescope Spots Its Second Possible World Already
Outer Places:
Japan Becomes First Country To Land On An Asteroid With Hayabusa2 Space Probe
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese robots land on asteroid, send back pictures
Space.com:
They Made It! Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu
Spaceflight Insider:
Japan successfully lands two small rovers on asteroid Ryugu
Space.com:
Rover Team Confident Curiosity Will Bounce Back from Glitch
Space.com:
After Pluto, New Horizons Probe Draws Near to Its Next Target: Ultima Thule
WEEKEND EDITION: September 21, 2018 through September 23, 2018
The Aviationist:
NORAD Released A Photo Of A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Shadowing A Russian Tu-95MS Bear Bomber During Intercept Off Alaska
The Aviationist:
F-35 Achieves Milestones Amid Setbacks And Criticism
Air & Space Magazine:
NASA's New Space Taxis
Spaceflight Insider:
Our SpaceFlight Heritage: ICE - The first comet flyby
Space.com:
Apollo 7: A Test of Spacecraft and Crew
Space.com:
Apollo 8: First Around the Moon
Space.com:
Apollo 9: The Lunar Module Flies
Space.com:
Apollo 10: Lunar Landing Dress Rehearsal
September 20, 2018
Space.com:
A Japanese Probe Is About to Drop Two Hopping Robots Onto Asteroid Ryugu
Space.com:
NASA's New Planet Hunter Just Found Its 1st Alien World — an Evaporating 'Super-Earth'
Space.com:
SpaceX's New BFR Spaceship Really Does Look Like Tintin's Moon Rocket
Space.com:
NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars Sidelined by Glitch
September 19, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
British Earth-imaging satellites ride Indian rocket into orbit
Daily Mail:
Can scientists crack the secret of Nasa's 'impossible' fuel-free thruster? US government awards British researcher £1m to develop a rocket that converts sunlight into thrust
Spaceflight Now:
Leftover Delta 2 rocket to go on display at Kennedy Space Center
Universe Today:
To Avoid Vision Problems in Space, Astronauts Will Need Some Kind of Artificial Gravity
Outer Places:
Scientists Discover Over a Dozen 'Ice Volcanoes' on the Solar System's Largest Asteroid
September 18, 2018
Space.com:
The BFR in Images: SpaceX's Giant Spaceship for Mars Colony & Beyond
Space.com:
Celebrating Cassini: NASA Saturn Probe Died 1 Year Ago Today
Outer Places:
This Moon Landing Brought to You By... NASA Announces That They Might Be Putting Ads on Rockets
Universe Today:
Was This Huge River Delta on Mars the Place Where its Oceans Finally Disappeared?
Spaceflight Insider:
New study rejects IAU rationale for demoting Pluto
September 17, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Going out in style: Delta II completes its final mission with launch of ICESat-2
Space.com:
Last Delta II Rocket Launches NASA Satellite to Map Earth's Ice with Space Laser
Spaceflight Now:
Early morning launch closes book on Delta 2 legacy spanning nearly 30 years
Space.com:
Final Delta II Launch to Mark End of First Pioneering Era of US Rockets
Space.com:
Delta Blue: Last Delta II Rocket Launch Leaves Behind Colorful Legacy
WEEKEND EDITION: September 14, 2018 through September 16, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
The FBI Mysteriously Close New Mexico Observatory
Popular Mechanics:
Sheep Glands Point to Nukes as Source of Mysterious 1979 Explosion
Space.com:
This Giant, Ultrathin NASA Balloon Just Broke an Altitude Record
Popular Mechanics:
Watch the World's Largest Jet Come in For a Landing
The Aviationist:
NORAD Released A Photo Of A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Shadowing A Russian Tu-95MS Bear Bomber During Intercept Off Alaska
Popular Mechanics:
How B-52 Bombers Will Fly Until the 2050s
Popular Mechanics:
France Accuses Russia of Space Satellite Espionage
Space.com:
NASA's Spirit Rover: Revealing Mars' Early, Wet History
Space.com:
A Tour of the Delta Rocket Family
Washington Post:
John Glenn and the courage of the Mercury Seven
Space.com:
Apollo 7: A Test of Spacecraft and Crew
September 13, 2018
History.com:
When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick
Space.com:
Russian Space Agency to NASA: Investigation Into Space Station Leak Is Under Way
Spaceflight Now:
Another recovered Falcon 9 booster arrives back in port
Space.com:
NASA Starts 45-Day Clock to Contact Mars Rover Opportunity as Dust Storm Wanes
Space.com:
Opportunity: Longest-Running Mars Rover
Space.com:
Earth's Oceans May Go Back to the Planet's Birth
Space.com:
Strange Binary Asteroid Shows Solar System Upheaval Happened Early
Space.com:
The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Be 'Highly Habitable'
September 12, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Station commander flatly denies any crew involvement in Soyuz leak
Spaceflight Insider:
How was the exact location of the recent ISS air leak found?
Space News:
As GPS 3 launch nears, Air Force keeps watchful eye on ground controls
Space.com:
Evoking Apollo, NASA Launch Tower Enters Vehicle Assembly Building
Space.com:
India Unveils Its Own Spacesuit Design for 2022 Astronaut Flights
Spaceflight Insider:
Curiosity reveals mysterious variety of terrains at Vera Rubin Ridge
Outer Places:
Artificial Intelligence Has Detected 72 Radio Signals From a Mysterious Source In Space
September 11, 2018
Daily Mail:
After the storm: Curiosity selfie reveals dust-covered rover and dark skies following massive Martian duststorm - but there's still no word from missing rover Opportunity
R&D Magazine:
Curiosity Braves Martian Dust Storms to Collect Samples
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX, Telesat achieve repeat success with midnight-hour launch
Spaceflight Now:
China launches satellite to monitor world's oceans
Space.com:
NASA Plans to Build a Moon-Orbiting Space Station: Here's What You Should Know
September 10, 2018
Space.com:
The End is Near for NASA's Historic Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Spaceflight Now:
Dawn mission approaches end as spacecraft runs out of fuel
Space.com:
Puzzling Swirls on the Moon May Come from Ancient, Magnetized Lava
Space.com:
Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa Has a Really Weird Cold Spot
Universe Today:
New Reasons why Pluto Should be Considered a Planet After All
WEEKEND EDITION: September 7, 2018 through September 9, 2018
Air & Space Magazine:
Air & Space Quiz: Experts Only
HistoryNet:
Shear Terror
HistoryNet:
Jumbo: Boeing 747
HistoryNet:
Civil Air Patrol's Combat Pilots
HistoryNet:
Flying Container Ship: The XC-120
HistoryNet:
Old Soldiers: Pacific B-17 Armed Transports
Air & Space Magazine:
Ithaca's Airplane
The Aviationist:
42 Years Ago Today: The Daring Defection of The Secret Soviet Super Fighter
Racked:
The Girdle-Inspired History of the Very First Spacesuits
Astronomy Magazine:
Remain calm in the void
Chicago Sun-Times:
50 years after Apollo 8, former astronaut Jim Lovell has no regrets
WMAQ-TV:
50 Years Later, Jim Lovell Remembers the Adventure of It All
Popular Science:
Here's what we had to say about Voyager 1 when it launched 41 years ago
September 6, 2018
History.com:
When UFOs Buzzed the White House and the Air Force Blamed the Weather
Spaceflight Insider:
Pressure mounts on Commercial Crew as Russia plans to stop flying U.S. astronauts to ISS
Space.com:
NASA Will Launch 2 Rockets to Test a Mars Parachute and Track 'Nanoflares'
Space.com:
Hole That Caused Leak in Russian Spacecraft Possibly Traced to Assembly or Testing: Report
Space.com:
Morning, Kepler! NASA's Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Wakes Up Again
Space News:
Kepler resumes operations despite malfunctioning thruster
Spaceflight Insider:
Chinese startup launches three CubeSats into space
Popular Science:
Jupiter's magnetic field has two 'south poles'
Universe Today:
Another Juno Flyby, Another Amazing Sequence of Images of Jupiter
September 5, 2018
History.com:
The First Alien-Abduction Account Described a Medical Exam with a Crude Pregnancy Test
Space.com:
Space Station Leak May Have Been Caused by Human Error, Russian Reports Say
Space.com:
Watch SpaceX's Dragon Bid Farewell to Space Station in This Incredible 4K Video
Outer Places:
Ghost Ship: NASA Finds Long-Lost Spacecraft, But It Won't Follow Their Orders
Outer Places:
The Orion Spacecraft Is Almost Complete... And Will Take Humans Back to the Moon
Space.com:
Brazil's Biggest Meteorite Survives Museum-Destroying Fire
Space.com:
Was Young, Wet Mars Once Close Enough to the Sun to 'Dance' with Venus?
September 4, 2018
Pedestrian:
A Brief History Of Some Of Australia's Weirdest UFO Encounters
Space.com:
Space Station Leak All Patched Up Now, NASA Says
Space News:
ISS leak highlights concerns about orbital debris and station operations
Space.com:
NASA Just Gave the Opportunity Rover a Survival Deadline on Mars - Here's What That Means
Space News:
NASA to soon start 45-day campaign to revive the Opportunity Mars rover
Space.com:
Life on Mars? 40 Years Later, Viking Lander Scientist Still Says 'Yes'
LABOR DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
August 31, 2018 through September 3, 2018
The Aviationist:
Exclusive: Check Out These Incredible Photos Taken Last Week of the Massive Stratolaunch Space Plane
Air & Space Magazine:
The Human Sonic Boom
Drive - The War Zone:
Russia Is Hunting For Its Crashed Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile And The U.S. Might Be Too
Air & Space Magazine:
The Secret World of NORAD
Air & Space Magazine:
The Father of Crash Investigation
Air & Space Magazine:
Was the Navy's F-111 Really That Bad?
The Aviationist:
Check Out This Nostalgic 1981 U.S. Navy Commercial Featuring the F-14 Tomcat
Business Insider:
From peeing in a 'roll-on cuff' to pooping into a bag: A brief history of how astronauts have gone to the bathroom in space for 57 years
Space.com:
The Mercury 7 Astronauts: NASA's First Space Travelers
Space.com:
Faith 7: Gordon Cooper's 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 Launch in Pictures
Space.com:
Gemini IV: Inside NASA's First Spacewalk Mission (Photos)
Space.com:
Gemini 5: Inside NASA's First 8-Day Space Mission of 1965
We Are The Mighty:
A '$30 Million Sandwich' almost derailed the space program
Space.com:
Gemini 9: NASA's Troubled Rendezvous Mission in Photos
National Review:
Neil Armstrong's Forgotten First Space Flight
Space.com:
Faith 7: Gordon Cooper's 1963 Mercury-Atlas 9 Launch in Pictures
Space.com:
10 Surprising Facts About NASA's Mighty Saturn V Moon Rocket
Space.com:
Apollo 9 in Photos: NASA Tests the Spidery Lunar Module
Culture Cheat Sheet:
These Photos Go Behind the Scenes of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Boston Globe:
NASA is releasing behind-the-scenes recordings of first moon landing
Daily Mail:
Smithsonian in race to save Neil Armstrong's historic Apollo 11 spacesuit as researchers reveal it is ROTTING
The Aviationist:
Let's Talk About The Sightings Of F-117 Stealth Jets Flying Over Nevada Few Days Ago
The Aviationist:
What's this mysterious aircraft spotted at Edwards AFB? The secretive B-21 Raider, the RQ-180 drone or "just" a B-2?
August 30, 2018
ABC Australia:
'Meteor' lights up sky over Perth, causing sonic booms that rattled houses
Spaceflight Now:
Installation of ice-measuring satellite caps assembly of last Delta 2 rocket
Outer Spaces:
The Orion Spacecraft Is Almost Complete... And Will Take Humans Back to the Moon
Space.com:
India Will Launch Its Own Astronauts to Space by 2022, Government Says
Space.com:
New Horizons Spies Its Next Target Beyond Pluto - from 100 Million Miles Away
August 29, 2018
Space.com:
Approaching (But Non-Scary) Asteroid 2016 NF23 Captured in New Photo
Patch:
Fireball Meteor Lights Up Missouri Sky
Space.com:
China Just Set New National Launch Record While Putting Up Two More Beidou Navigation Satellites
Space.com:
US Military Aims to Launch Cheap New 'Blackjack' Spy Satellites in 2021
Space.com:
Will Mars Rover Opportunity Survive Monster Dust Storm? It's Still Too Soon to Tell
Space.com:
How Old Is Asteroid Itokawa? Scientists Say They Finally Know
August 28, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX's 1st 'Block 5' Rocket: A Tale of 2 Launches
Space.com:
Meet Mr. Steven, SpaceX's Rocket Nose-Cone-Catching Boat
Space.com:
How Do You Build on the Moon? Start with Lunar Dust
Space.com:
Why Jupiter's Rapid Growth Spurt Was Delayed for Millions of Years
Space.com:
Dione: Saturn's Turned-Around Moon
August 27, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX's New Astronaut Walkway Represents a Step Toward Crewed Flight
Space.com:
China's Sending a Probe to the Moon's Far Side. Here's Where It Will Land
Space.com:
Asteroid-Sampling NASA Probe Gets 1st Look at Its Target (Photo)
Space.com:
OSIRIS-REx: Bringing Home Pieces of an Asteroid
Space News:
Kepler spacecraft back in safe mode as fuel runs low
Space.com:
NASA's Prolific Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Goes Back to Sleep
Space.com:
Opportunity: Longest-Running Mars Rover
Space.com:
Asteroid Billiards: This Wild Idea to Protect Earth Just Might Work
WEEKEND EDITION: August 24, 2018 through August 26, 2018
Space.com:
US Air Force Zooms Ahead on 2 New Hypersonic Weapons Plans
Space.com:
Sputnik: The Space Race's Opening Shot
Space.com:
Project Mercury: America's 1st Manned Space Program
August 23, 2018
Space.com:
Tennis in Space, Anyone? Astronauts Have a Ball During Historic Match
Outer Places:
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Is About To Hitch A Ride On An Asteroid
Outer Places:
NASA's InSight Probe Took A Selfie After Passing The Halfway Point To Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Engineers still hopeful Mars rover will wake up after dust storm
Space.com:
Why We Can't Depend on Robots to Find Life on Mars
August 22, 2018
History.com:
Why Mysterious Green Fireballs Worried the U.S. Government in 1948
History.com:
This Scoutmaster Had a Run-in with a UFO. The Kids Saw it Too.
Space.com:
Gotcha! US Air Force's Secretive X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Satellite Tracker
Space.com:
NASA's Orion Spacecraft Gets Heat Shield for Daring Test Flight to the Moon
Space.com:
Get an Up-Close Look at Boeing's New CST-100 Starliner Spaceship (Photos)
Space.com:
Photo Tour: Inside Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Spaceship Hangar
Space.com:
Water Ice Confirmed on the Surface of the Moon for the 1st Time!
Spaceflight Insider:
InSight lander passes halfway mark on journey to Mars
August 21, 2018
Space.com:
A 'Fireball' 40 Times Brighter Than the Moon Shoots Across Alabama Skies
Spaceflight Insider:
Russian spacewalk runs into overtime during 'Icarus' experiment installation
Spaceflight Insider:
InSight lander passes halfway mark on journey to Mars
Space.com:
Stratolaunch Unveils New Rockets, Space Plane to Launch from World's Largest Airplane
Space.com:
NASA's InSight Mars Lander Snaps a Selfie at Halfway Mark to Red Planet
Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft Begins Final Approach to Big Asteroid Bennu
August 20, 2018
News.com Australia:
The mass UFO sighting that terrified city residents
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's astronaut walkway installed on Florida launch pad
Space.com:
NASA Solar Probe Hits 1st Deep-Space Milestones On Its Way to the Sun
Spaceflight Now:
First milestones accomplished on NASA's newly-launched Parker Solar Probe
Space.com:
This NASA Video of the Moon's Lunar Landmarks Is Simply Amazing
Space.com:
'Foreign Object' on Mars Spotted by Curiosity Rover Is Just a Rock (Photo)
Space.com:
Water on Mars: Exploration & Evidence
Space.com:
NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars Still Silent 2 Months into Epic Dust Storm
Space.com:
Will We Ever Stop Using Rockets to Get to Space?
WEEKEND EDITION: August 17, 2018 through August 19, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Is Russia's Mysterious New Satellite a Space Weapon?
Drive - The War Zone:
Russia Has Four Potential "Killer Satellites" In Orbit, At Least That We Know About
We Are The Mighty:
The Soviet spies who stole NASA's Space Shuttle
Hackaday:
Salyut: How We Learned To Make Space Stations
National Geographic:
The Forgotten Soviet Space Shuttle Could Fly Itself
CNN:
Giant flying machines: 10 of the world's largest aircraft
US News & World Report:
Rocket City, Alabama: Space History and an Eye on the Future
Mental Floss:
The Secret Cold War History of the Missile That Launched America's First Satellite
ABC News:
PHOTOS: Celebrating 60 years of NASA
KFOR-TV:
Historic Gemini VI spacecraft moved to Oklahoma museum
Space.com:
Building Apollo: Photos from Moonshot History
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Rare NASA Photos Were Saved From the Trash
History.com:
10 Things You May Not Know About the Apollo Program
Washington Post:
'We shall return': Eugene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon. There was no return.
We Are The Mighty:
The Soviets were the first to put a flag on the moon - not the US
History.com:
The 5 Deadliest Disasters of the Space Race
Discover Magazine:
Nazis And Dead Dogs: Spaceflight Before The Space Race
Interesting Engineering:
Buzz Aldrin: Life and Career of One of the First Men Who Walked on the Moon
The New Yorker:
Virgin Galactic's Rocket Man
Forbes:
This Is The Story Of How America Once Thought About Nuking The Moon
August 16, 2018
History.com:
Mysterious UFOs Seen by WWII Airman Still Unexplained
Space.com:
Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane Nears 1 Year in Orbit
Space.com:
Space Weapon? US Calls Out Russian Satellite's 'Very Abnormal Behavior'
Space News:
Pioneering Chang'e-4 lunar far side landing mission to launch in December
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor
Space.com:
Spacewalking Cosmonauts Toss Tiny Satellites From Space Station
Space News:
NASA says RS-25 engine test a success despite ending early
Space.com:
Earth Has 'Minimoons,' and They May Solve Asteroid Mysteries
Spacelfight Insider:
Pluto's Earth-like glaciers puzzle scientists
August 15, 2018
C|Net:
Asteroid discovered after it makes the closest flyby of the year
Universe Today:
The Sun is Actually One of the Most Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System. Here's how the Parker Solar Probe Will Do It
Space.com:
A Fireball and a Wall of Sound: What NASA's Epic Solar Probe Launch Felt Like
Space.com:
In Photos: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spaceship
Space.com:
In Photos: Juno's Amazing Views of Jupiter
Space.com:
Billowy Bands Wrap Around Jupiter As Its Magnetic Field and Jet Streams Play
Space.com:
Callisto: Facts About Jupiter's (Not So) Dead Moon
Space.com:
Io: Facts about Jupiter's Volcanic Moon
August 14, 2018
History.com:
Two Pilots Saw a UFO. Why Did the Air Force Destroy the Report?
London Times:
Is the US government hiding UFOs in a Las Vegas hangar?
Spaceflight Now:
NASA signs off on SpaceX's "load-and-go" procedure for crew launches
Space News:
Small satellite sector grapples with cybersecurity requirements, cost
Space News:
"No encryption, no fly" rule proposed for smallsats
Space.com:
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Headed to the Sun. So, What's Next?
Space.com:
Parker Solar Probe: Mission to Touch the Sun
Space.com:
Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest Rocks on Earth
August 13, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
NASA launches Parker Solar Probe on historic mission
Space News:
NASA launches Parker Solar Probe mission to study the sun up close
Space.com:
NASA Launches Daring Solar Probe Mission to Kiss the Sun
Spaceflight Insider:
Thundering toward light: NASA's Parker Solar Probe begins journey to Sun
Space.com:
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission to the Sun Explained (Infographic)
Space.com:
Launch Photos! NASA's Parker Solar Probe Blasts Off to Touch the Sun
Universe Today:
As the Martian Dust Storm Subsides, There's Still No Word From Opportunity
WEEKEND EDITION: August 10, 2018 through August 12, 2018
Space.com:
China Just Tested a Hypersonic Weapon That Could Launch Nukes at 6 Times the Speed of Sound
The Aviationist:
Take A Look At This Amazing Video Of a B-1B Lancer Night Afterburner Takeoff and Spiral Climb
Drive - The War Zone:
New Video Of F-117s Flying Out Of Tonopah Emerges Despite Their Fates Being Sealed
Drive - The War Zone:
Listen To This Highly Interesting Radio Recording Of The F-117's Latest Flight Over Nevada
The Aviationist:
Let's Talk About The Sightings Of F-117 Stealth Jets Flying Over Nevada Few Days Ago
The Aviationist:
The Stunning Aerial Cinematography of JET PILOT
Hackaday:
Radar in Space: The Gemini Rendezvous Radar
Space Review:
Anywhere but in the water
Space Review:
Self-defense in space: protecting Russian spacecraft from ASAT attacks
Popular Mechanics:
The Oral History of Apollo 11
August 9, 2018
History.com:
The Unsolved Mystery of the Lubbock Lights UFO Sightings
Live Science:
This Meteor 'Exploded' Over Greenland, But Nobody Saw It. Here's Why It Matters.
Outer Places:
NASA Will Fly Closer To The Sun Than Ever Before With A Probe Launching This Week
Outer Places:
Not Quite Kryptonite: Previously Unknown Alien Mineral Discovered Inside Russia's Uakit Meteorite
Space.com:
Space Rock in the Crosshairs! Japanese Probe Snaps Close-Up Images of Asteroid Ryugu
Space.com:
Comet's Exotic Terrain Stars in Close-Up View from the Rosetta Probe
Outer Places:
Rogue Mega-Planet With A Supercharged Magnetic Field And Vicious Auroras Discovered Just Twenty Light Years Away
August 8, 2018
News.com Australia:
Audio reveals creepy details of Australian UFO mystery
Space.com:
SpaceX Re-Launches 'Block 5' Rocket for 1st Time, Nails Landing Again
Spaceflight Insider:
1st reflown Block 5 Falcon 9 sends 'Merah Putih' into orbit
Space.com:
Should the Moon Be Quarantined?
Space.com:
That Newfound Mineral Isn't Harder Than Diamond - But It Is from Space
Space.com:
This Unusual Meteorite Flew Around in Space Before Earth Was Born
August 7, 2018
America Magazine:
Close Encounters: A priest and a mysterious U.F.O. sighting
Space.com:
Fireball Explodes Over Greenland Near US Military Base
ABC Australia:
Meteor streaking across the sky over NSW, Victoria captured by dashcam
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX set to re-fly first Falcon 9 Block 5 booster Tuesday
Spaceflight Insider:
First major piece of NASA's Space Launch System assembled
Space.com:
Take a Walk Through SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spaceship
Space.com:
How Boeing's Commercial CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Works
Space.com:
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner: A 21st Century Space Capsule in Photos
August 6, 2018
New York Times:
A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s 'Exploded' Into Public View
Space.com:
In Just One Week, NASA Will Launch a Spacecraft to 'Touch the Sun'
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's CRS-15 Dragon splashes down in Pacific
Space.com:
Splashdown! SpaceX Cargo Spacecraft Returns to Earth
Popular Mechanics:
NASA Announces Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX and Boeing Spacecraft
Popular Mechanics:
Death Star: The ISS Doesn't Have a Way to Crash Safely
WEEKEND EDITION: August 4, 2018 through August 5, 2018
Space.com:
String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
Popular Mechanics:
Robots Can Be Pretty Convincing When They Ask You Not to Shut Them Down
Popular Mechanics:
This Robot Centaur May Be the Future of Search-and-Rescues
Popular Mechanics:
We've Been Wrong Before: The Expanding Earth Theory
Popular Mechanics:
The Hope Diamond Formed At The Bottom of The Ocean
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Real Science Behind the Megalodon
The History Blog:
Farmer wins big on gilded horse head
The History Blog:
Rare dog sarcophagus rescued from museum pound
BBC History Extra:
How King Henry I made and blew a fortune
The History Blog:
Rare seal of Byzantine empress found in Bulgaria
History.com:
Was the Colonies' First Death Penalty Handed to a Mutineer or Spy?
The History Blog:
Cache of 18th c. rockets found in India
History.com:
Bermuda Triangle Mystery: What Happened to the USS Cyclops?
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America's Food Safety System
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System
History.com:
The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial Pitted Science Against Religion: Watch Rare Footage
BBC History Extra:
Remembering the Kindertransport
BBC History Extra:
When women flew Spitfires
BBC History Extra:
6 Battle of Britain myths
Flashbak:
1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome
History.com:
People Have Been Chasing Bigfoot for 60 Years - Here's How It Began
Flashbak:
Breaking News: Fascinating Original Reporting Of The JFK Murder
Smithsonian Magazine:
New York Public Library Acquires Unpublished Chapter of Malcolm X's Autobiography
Smithsonian Magazine:
These Images From 1968 Capture an America in Violent Flux
August 3, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX's Dragon: First Private Spacecraft to Reach Space Station
Space.com:
Boeing CST-100 Starliner: Next-Generation Spaceship
Air & Space Magazine:
A Feared Nazi Night Fighter Is Being Restored 70 Years Later
Air & Space Magazine:
A Double-Headed Mustang Flies Again
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Jet Pilots
Space.com:
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
August 2, 2018
Space.com:
Boeing Delays Starliner Uncrewed Test Flight After Abort Engine Test Problem
Spaceflight Now:
Boeing delays crew capsule test flights after abort engine problem
Space News:
NASA confirms delays in Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew flights
Space.com:
1st Crewed Flights of Private Space Taxis Slip to 2019
Space.com:
Watch Two Meteorites Hit the Moon!
Universe Today:
New Photos of Saturn and Mars from Hubble
August 1, 2018
Truro News:
Shag Harbour UFO incident still a distinct memory
Space News:
China completes 22nd launch this year with Gaofen-11, matches national record
Spaceflight Now:
Solar probe moves into launch position at Cape Canaveral
Space News:
Safety panel warns schedule for commercial crew test flights still uncertain
Spaceflight Insider:
Martian storm chasers: Spacecraft observe dust storm
Universe Today:
Uh oh, Mars Doesn't Have Enough Carbon Dioxide to be Terraformed
July 31, 2018
Space.com:
Alaska Launch Shrouded in Secrecy
Spaceflight Now:
Virgin Galactic's rocket plane climbs closer to space
Space.com:
Virgin Galactic's Space Plane Reaches New Heights (Video)
Space.com:
NASA's New Planet Hunter Begins Its Search for Alien Worlds
Spaceflight Now:
TESS's planet hunt begins
Spaceflight Insider:
Inside Opportunity: As dust storm continues to rage Oppy sleeps
Space.com:
The Massive Mars Dust Storm Is Starting to Die Down
Space.com:
Weird Volcanoes Are Erupting Across the Solar System
Space.com:
Happy Birthday, NASA! Space Agency Born 60 Years Ago
July 30, 2018
WTOP-TV:
WATCH: Former Pentagon official calls for big UFO reveal after secret investigation
News.com Australia:
Pilot's strange act before UFO sighting
ABC Australia:
Frederick Valentich disappearance: How UFO helped inspire The Kettering Incident
Chronicle-Herald:
Shag Harbour UFO incident still a distinct memory
Creswell Chronicle:
Region called BS on California papers' UFO stories in 1890s
Daily Express:
UFO alert: Letter to President Jefferson may be earliest recorded visit of ALIENS
Space.com:
SpaceX Lands Rocket in Harshest Conditions to Date and Attempts to Catch Fairing
Popular Mechanics:
Nearly All the Dust on Mars Comes From One Rock Formation
Space.com:
Scientists Identify Source of Mars Dust Currently Threatening Rover
Universe Today:
This Stunning Photo Shows the Martian Dust Storm as it was Just Getting Going
Outer Spaces:
The Milky Way Had A Sister Galaxy, But The Andromeda Galaxy Ate It
WEEKEND EDITION: July 28, 2018 through July 29, 2018
Daily Mail:
A glitch in Google Translate's AI is translating gibberish into doomsday warnings and prophecies about the second coming of Jesus
Popular Mechanics:
DARPA Is Hosting an Olympics for Tiny Robots
Popular Mechanics:
New 'Amazing Dragon' Dinosaur Upends What We Thought We Knew About Sauropods
Popular Mechanics:
New Spiky-Headed Armored Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Was Basically a Tank
Live Science:
Forgotten 'Dinosaur' Fossil Actually Belongs to a Weird, Hippo-Like Beast
Live Science:
Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life
The History Blog:
Neanderthals made fire
The History Blog:
Maya paintings found in Yucatan cave
Daily Mail:
Mystery of the Greek noblewoman buried in her gold jewelry 1,800 years ago: Archaeologists discover ancient grave of 'Neko' at Roman monument
History.com:
'Massive' Bones of Viking Descendants Found in an Italian Graveyard
History.com:
What Was Life Like in Jamestown?
History.com:
The Mysterious Slave Who Sparked Salem's Witch Hunt
The History Blog:
Cornplanter's tomahawk back at museum 70 years after theft
Daily Mail:
Jane Austen's first ever sale was to the Prince Regent: Newly-discovered receipt shows the future George IV bought Sense and Sensibility for 15 shillings in 1811
Daily Mail:
World's first ever computer manual which was written by Victorian woman 175 years ago is sold for nearly £100,000 - 20 times its expected price
History.com:
The Final Days of John Wilkes Booth
Daily Mail:
The mystery of The Scream's fiery sky solved: 'Mother-of-pearl' clouds inspired Edvard Munch's painting
History.com:
How a Wrong Turn Started World War I
History.com:
Lenin vs Stalin: Their Showdown Over the Birth of the USSR
Popular Mechanics:
The Hoover Dam Changed America - And It Might Do It Again
San Francisco Chronicle:
Dozens heard Amelia Earhart's final, chilling pleas for help, researchers say
History.com:
Hitler Sent a Secret Expedition to Antarctica in a Hunt for Margarine Fat
Popular Mechanics:
WWII P-38 Discovered Under 300 Feet of Ice in Greenland
History.com:
USS Indianapolis: Survivor Accounts From the Worst Naval Disaster in U.S. History
History.com:
The Diplomat Who Fought the Nazis and Saved Thousands of Jews During the Holocaust
History.com:
When Black Nurses Were Relegated to Care for German POWs
Daily Mail:
Harold Wilson's plan to bomb Radio Caroline: Documents reveal the government considered shelling the pirate station over fears it would broadcast slurs over his alleged affair
History.com:
The 1981 Lynching that Bankrupted an Alabama KKK
History.com:
The Sex Party-Loving Soviet Spy Who Infiltrated the CIA
July 27, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Russia's New Rocket Project Might Resurrect a Soviet-Era Colossus
Space.com:
Makings of Moon Landing: 50 Years Ago, Apollo 11 Was One Year From 'Giant Leap'
Space.com:
Building Apollo: Photos from Moonshot History
Popular Mechanics:
See Outtake Photos From the 1969 Moon Landing
Space.com:
Album of the Year: The Apollo 11 Mission
July 26, 2018
Astrobiology Magazine:
Liquid water discovered on Mars
Wired:
Scientists Discover Evidence of the First Large Body of Liquid Water on Mars
Science Magazine:
Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars
Los Angeles Times:
Scientists detect a body of liquid water beneath a Martian ice cap
Popular Science:
Mars has tons of newly discovered water in a 12-mile-wide reservoir
Popular Mechanics:
What Would Life on Mars Be Like?
July 25, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission slips 5 days
Space.com:
Canadian Astronaut Prepares to Launch After a Nine-Year Wait
Daily Mail:
Did life once thrive on the moon? Conditions to support simple organisms have existed TWICE since our nearest neighbour was formed four billion years ago, say experts
Space.com:
8 Cool Destinations That Future Mars Tourists Could Explore
Space.com:
See the Dramatic Increase in Near-Earth Asteroids NASA Has Discovered (Video)
July 24, 2018
History.com:
When a U.S. Fighter Pilot Got into a Dogfight with a UFO
History.com:
In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Terrified 6 Kids, a Mom, a Dog - and the Nation
History.com:
The UFO Sightings That Launched 'Men in Black' Mythology
Space.com:
Boeing's Starliner launch abort engine suffers problem during testing
Space.com:
NASA Mission to 'Touch the Sun' Due to Launch in Early August
Outer Spaces:
Russia is Sending a Robot Crew to Space In 2019
Space.com:
Europa Lander May Not Have to Dig Deep to Find Signs of Life
Space.com:
The Milky Way Had a Big Sibling Long Ago - And Andromeda Ate It
July 23, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Communications Satellite on 2nd-Ever Flight of New Rocket
Space.com:
As Opportunity Rover Sleeps, Other NASA Craft Study Mars' Raging Dust Storm
Space.com:
Happy Anniversary, Viking 1! What Early Landers Taught Us About Mars
Space.com:
Most Stars with Jupiters Have Giant Super-Earths
Space.com:
Wandering Star May Have Disrupted Outer Solar System's Order
WEEKEND EDITION: July 21, 2018 through July 22, 2018
Space.com:
Right Again, Einstein: Special Relativity Works Even in Ghostly High-Energy Neutrinos
Popular Mechanics:
Search-and-Rescue Bot Can Change Its Shape and Center of Gravity To Go Anywhere
Popular Mechanics:
Giant Iceberg Threatens Entire Greenland Village
Popular Mechanics:
Oldest Ever Baby Snake Discovered in Forest Amber
Daily Mail:
New species of armoured dinosaur discovered in Utah: Ancient reptile Akainacephalus johnsoni walked across the land bridge from Asia to north America 76 million years ago, archaeologists reveal
Daily Mail:
Dawn of the dingo: Iconic Australian dog was brought to the continent aboard Aboriginal ships 1,500 years later than first thought
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals COULD start fires: Ancient flint tools reveal the hominids created their own flames 50,000 years ago and didn't rely on wildfires
Daily Mail:
Humans reached North America 6,500 years EARLIER than first thought: Discovery of 150,000 'unique' stone tools suggest humans already lived on the continent 20,000 years ago
Popular Mechanics:
Archeologists Find World's Oldest Bread
Daily Mail:
A 2,000-year-old scroll has finally been decoded by experts and it's all about how sex-starved women become hysterical
Popular Mechanics:
The Oldest Building in All 50 States
July 20, 2018
Fine Books & Collections:
First Moonwalker Neil Armstrong's Private Collection to be Sold at Heritage Auctions
Popular Mechanics:
Watch Two Cape Canaveral Launch Towers Meet Their End
Space.com:
Mercury Redstone 4: Photos from Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Spaceflight
Space.com:
12 Cool Pieces of Space History You Can See in Russia (and Kazakhstan)
July 19, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Falcon 9 rocket test-fired for weekend launch
Space.com:
Blue Origin's New Shepard Vehicle Aces Test of Crew-Escape Motor
Spaceflight Now:
Blue Origin performs high-altitude test of crew escape motor
Space.com:
Parachutes for NASA's Next Crewed Spaceship Pass Key Test (Photo)
Space.com:
Dazzling Views Show Saturn Moon Titan's Surface Like Never Before
Space.com:
Mars Curiosity: Facts and Information
July 18, 2018
Space.com:
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to Launch 'High-Altitude Escape Motor Test' Wednesday
Spaceflight Insider:
Iridium NEXT Flight Seven readied for launch atop SpaceX Falcon 9
Space.com:
UK Selects Scottish Spaceport Site
Spaceflight Now:
Scotland site selected as launch base for Lockheed Martin, Orbex
Universe Today:
NASA's Juno Mission Spots Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter's Moon Io
Popular Mechanics:
12 New Moons of Jupiter Discovered
July 17, 2018
Inverse:
Why a Crewed SpaceX or Boeing Spacecraft to the ISS by 2019 Is Unlikely
Spaceflight Insider:
Israeli company eyes Moon landing in early 2019
Space.com:
Mercury's Crust Might Be Thinner Than Anyone Thought
Space.com:
Geometry Helps Solve the Mystery of Mars' Water
Space.com:
Martian 'Ghost Dunes' Could Preserve Signs of Ancient Life
Spaceflight Insider:
Trio of observatories reveal rare double asteroid
Extreme Tech:
Researchers Discover Incredibly Rare Asteroid Binary in Near Earth Orbit
July 16, 2018
Reader's Digest:
9 UFO Sightings No One Can Explain
Space.com:
Cygnus Spacecraft Leaves the Space Station After Giving It an Orbital Boost
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus cargo ship released from space station, heads for extended mission
Spaceflight Insider:
Northrop Grumman's OA-9 Cygnus leaves International Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX's first space-worthy Crew Dragon capsule arrives at Cape Canaveral
Popular Mechanics:
Pluto Aligns with the Rest of the Solar System for the First Time in Nearly a Century
Space.com:
Celebrating 40 Years of Pluto's Largest Moon, Charon
Popular Mechanics:
These Maps of Pluto and Its Moon Charon Are the Most Detailed Ever Made
WEEKEND EDITION: July 14, 2018 through July 15, 2018
Radio Times:
How Doctor Who, Star Trek and Stranger Things are making a major scientific error about alternate realities
Physics World:
Time examined and time experienced
BBC News:
'We can build a real time machine'
Forbes:
Machine Learning Vs. Artificial Intelligence: How Are They Different?
Futurism:
DeepMind Created a Test to Measure an AI's Ability to Reason
Daily Mail:
AI-powered robot mimics ANY action after watching a person do it just once, paving the way for machines to learn new skills in the same way as humans
Curbed:
Meet the sun-chasing robot with a plant on its back
Daily Mail:
The 'blind' robot cheetah that can feel its way around almost any obstacle
Live Science:
Discovery of 'First Giant' Dinosaur Is a Huge Evolutionary Finding
Bend Bulletin:
Long-knecked, elephant-sized dinosaur highlights dino diversity
The Atlantic:
The Smithsonian Had To Dig Up Their Dinosaurs Again
Gizmodo:
Origin Mystery of Ancient Rhino-Like Mammal Solved By 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil
The History Blog:
French farmer finds first Pyrenean mastodon skull
The Scientist:
Original North American Dogs Descended From Siberian Populations
Audubon Magazine:
These Century-Old Photos Inspired Some of the West's First Bird Refuges
National Geographic:
Crows Are Always Jerks to Ravens, Research Confirms
JStor:
The Busy, Beneficial Beaver
Daily Mail:
Ancient human ancestors who lived more than three MILLION years ago already walked upright on two feet (but their children spent more time in the trees than adults)
Popular Mechanics:
Chinese Cave Tools Point To Earliest Known Human Migration
Daily Mail:
4,500-year-old 'paramilitary kitchens' used by pyramid builders for brewing and breadmaking found near Giza
The Guardian:
Ancient find may be earliest extract of epic Homer poem Odyssey
JStor:
The Medieval Castle That Pranked Its Visitors
BBC History Extra:
7 things you (probably) didn't know about Elizabeth I
History.com:
Why Peter the Great Tortured and Killed His Own Son
The History Blog:
Rare 1745 portrait donated to Colonial Williamsburg
History.com:
Why 'Liberty Trees' Became an Obsession After the Revolutionary War
BBC History Extra:
Fighting for freedom: the storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution
History.com:
Burr's Political Legacy Died in the Duel with Hamilton
History.com:
The Women's Suffrage Movement Started with a Tea Party
Stuff NZ:
Researchers say they know where NZ's lost pink and white terraces were
Forbes:
Nikola Tesla's Third Greatest Invention: The First Drone
JStor:
The Camouflage That Dazzled
Smithsonian Magazine:
When a Bavarian Monastery Provided a Home to Jewish Refugees
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Cold War-Era Publishing House Wanted To Share American Values With the World
Daily Mail:
Laboratory releases hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear test films taken at the height of the Cold War at top-secret US testing grounds
History.com:
JFK Was Completely Unprepared For His Summit with Khrushchev
History.com:
When France Pulled the Plug on a Crucial Part of NATO
New York Times:
How Smart TVs in Millions of U.S. Homes Track More Than What's On Tonight
Atlas Obscura:
Why Are There Palm Trees in Los Angeles?
Atlas Obscura:
How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language
July 13, 2018
Popular Science:
Meet China's growing fleet of automated delivery drones
Popular Mechanics:
'Dragon' Drone Can Twist and Change Shape in Midair
Space.com:
Restoration Begins on NASA's Last Flight-Configured Saturn IB Rocket
Space.com:
Skylab: First U.S. Space Station
Popular Mechanics:
12 Rockets Launches That Didn't Quite Go as Planned
Forbes:
Remembering Robert Lawrence, The First African-American Astronaut
July 12, 2018
C|Net:
Two asteroids zipped by Earth hours before anyone noticed
Space.com:
NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976
Space.com:
Israel Aims to Launch Moon Lander in December
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. cargo craft tests reboost capability at International Space Station
Space.com:
Engine for DARPA's New Military Space Plane Aces Record-Breaking Test
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX could try to land rocket in California later this year
Space.com:
Crew Dragon Completes Thermal Vacuum Tests Ahead of First Test Flight
Spaceflight Insider:
Crew Dragon undergoes more tests as it progresses to operational readiness
Space.com:
Engine for US Military's New Space Plane Fires Up in 10-Day Test
Space.com:
Friday the 13th Eclipse Visible to Lucky Few
July 11, 2018
The Conversation:
Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study
Space News:
China claims progress in new landing technology for crewed spacecraft, Mars landings
Space.com:
China Reveals Details for Super-Heavy-Lift Long March 9 and Reusable Long March 8 Rockets
Space.com:
Virgin Orbit Wins FAA License for First LauncherOne Mission
Space.com:
Mars 2020 Rover Team Adds 4th Candidate to Landing-Site List
Space.com:
Life on Mars Could Have Gotten an Early Start, 'Black Beauty' Meteorite Suggests
July 10, 2018
Global News Canada:
Cousteau family members to investigate Nova Scotia's Shag Harbour UFO incident
Outer Spaces:
UFO In Flight? A Fireball With a Weird Trajectory Lit Up The Sky Over The Midwest Yesterday
Bring Me the MN News:
Fireball in the sky causes UFO hysteria in Minnesota
WMAQ-TV:
Fireball Lights Up Night Sky Over Illinois, 8 Other States
WOWT-TV:
Meteor streaks across metro sky
Des Moines Register:
Did you see a meteor over Iowa last night? Hundreds of eastern Iowans did.
Spaceflight Insider:
Russian Progress MS-09 spacecraft reaches International Space Station in record time
Space.com:
Russian Cargo Ship Sets New Record for Fastest Trip to Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Progress freighter completes fastest-ever trip to International Space Station
Space.com:
NASA Spacecraft Refines Course Toward Big Asteroid Bennu
Spaceflight Now:
Scientists thrilled with closer views of Ceres' famous salty crater
Space.com:
How Stratospheric Life Is Teaching Us About the Possibility of Extreme Life on Other Worlds
July 9, 2018
Berkshire Eagle:
This Story in History - From the July 7, 1947, Eagle 'Saucers' seen here but reports debunked
Times Live South Africa:
Meteorite found after fireball seen over South Africa
Space.com:
Traces of 'Sonic Boom' Meteorites Found on Ocean Floor
Spaceflight Now:
Russian cargo ship to try fast-track rendezvous with space station
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-09 set for fast-track rendezvous with ISS
Space.com:
Watch SpaceX's Dragon Ship for Astronauts Ace a Parachute Abort Test
Space.com:
The End Is Nigh for NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope
Popular Science:
200,000 asteroids trace their origins to just a handful of obliterated parents
INDEPENDENCE DAY LONG-WEEKEND EDITION:
July 4, 2018 through July 8, 2018
Scientific American:
Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?
Outer Places:
'The Big Rip:' Here's What it Could Mean if the Universe is Tearing Itself Apart
Popular Science:
This is what it's like to speak with Google's reservation-making AI service
IEEE Spectrum:
Honda Halts Asimo Development in Favor of More Useful Humanoid Robots
IEEE Spectrum:
Asimo Still Improving Its Hopping and Jogging Skills
Daily Mail:
Walt Disney is developing humanoid 'stuntbots' to take over from actors in films and theme parks during dangerous stunts
Popular Science:
Power-multiplying exoskeletons are slimming down for use on the battlefield
Popular Mechanics:
The Bedrock Below West Antarctica Is Rising Shockingly Fast
Stuff NZ:
Taranaki probably the NZ volcano most at risk of large eruption in next 50 years
Forbes:
Scientists Fear 'Slow Earthquakes' Will Lead To The Next Big California Quake
Live Science:
Hottest Night in Recorded History Just Logged in Oman
Forbes:
'It's Almost Like Another Planet' - Coldest Temperature On Earth Recorded In Antarctica
New York Times:
Magnetic Sense Helps Billions of Moths on an Australian Migration
Live Science:
Chernobyl's Radioactive 'Wildlife Preserve' Spawns Growing Wolf Population
Live Science:
Human Sacrifices Surround Ancient Mesopotamian Tomb
Live Science:
Two 4,500-Year-Old Homes Found Near Giza Pyramids
Daily Mail:
Oldest evidence of animal dentistry is unearthed in Mongolian horse remains, proving vets have been relieving pain for over 3,000 years
The History Blog:
Bronze hand from Jupiter shrine found at Vindolanda
Atlas Obscura:
The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture
The History Blog:
Reward offered for Moundville artifacts stolen 40 years ago
The History Blog:
Aztec temple under supermarket opens to public
The History Blog:
Ghent Altarpiece Mystic Lamb is mystical again
The History Blog:
Rubens portrait rediscovered in South Africa
History.com:
Did a Snowball Fight Start the American Revolution?
History.com:
Caesar Who? The Founding Father You've Probably Never Heard Of
History.com:
Why Was the Declaration of Independence Written?
Popular Mechanics:
The Science of Saving the Declaration of Independence
Daily Mail:
Rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence is found in a British archive among papers of an aristocrat who supported the rebels
History.com:
The Louisiana Purchase Was Driven by a Slave Rebellion
History.com:
Two Presidents Died on the Same July 4: Coincidence or Something More?
The History Blog:
Gold watch from Pulaski wreck stopped at crucial moment
History.com:
An All-Woman Confederate Militia Guarded Their Georgia Hometown
ABC News:
Frederick Douglass' July 4 speeches trace American history
History.com:
Caroline Weldon: A White Woman's Doomed Effort to Save Sitting Bull
History.com:
41 Has A Secret Meaning in Mexico, Thanks to a Queer Underground Ball
History.com:
The Deadly Speedboat Shooting That Spurred an End to Prohibition
Daily Mail:
The haunting trench art of a WWI prisoner of war: Romantic scene carved into a metal canteen 100 years ago reveals the 'deep longing' of a Russian soldier held captive in Poland
History.com:
The U.S. Raised the Iwo Jima Flag, then Occupied the Islands for 23 Years
History.com:
Why the Berlin Airlift Was the First Major Battle of the Cold War
Flashbak:
Samuel Beckett Doodles Charlie Chaplin and James Joyce on his Manuscripts
Flashbak:
Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street
Flashbak:
Highlights From An Historic Clip Art Collection
Forbes:
5 Little-Known Nuggets From Kubrick And Clarke's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
Popular Science:
How to find your way out of the woods without tools - or your phone
Popular Mechanics:
America's Best National Parks for Camping
July 3, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
70 Years and Counting, the UFO Phenomenon Is as Mysterious As Ever
Daily Mirror:
The truth is out there: The five most convincing UFO sightings ever
CBC Canada:
2 of Canada's famous unsolved UFO mysteries
KLAS-TV:
I-Team Exclusive: Nevada senator fought to save secret UFO program
Popular Science:
Our first contact with aliens might be with their robots
Longview Daily News:
Scientists hunt for parts of a massive meteor that splashed down off Washington
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon capsule reaches space station with three tons of cargo
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-15 Dragon brings science experiments, artificial intelligence to ISS
Space.com:
Virgin Orbit Gears Up for Captive Carry Test Flight
The Atlantic:
When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong
Space.com:
Mars Looks Super Creepy Thanks to a Massive Dust Storm
Daily Mail:
Up close to a dwarf planet: NASA's Dawn probe reveals stunning new images of the 'otherworldly beauty' of Ceres and its mysterious 'glowing' craters
Popular Mechanics:
We Might Finally Know What Smacked Uranus Sideways
Popular Mechanics:
The First Picture of a Newborn Planet
Popular Mechanics:
Study Shows Exoplanet Has a Stable Axis Just Like Earth
Popular Science:
How to tell an asteroid from a comet, even when its from outside our solar system
Space.com:
The Greatest Asteroid Encounters of All Time!
July 2, 2018
Sunday Express:
Operation UFO: Britain's race to beat Russia to alien weapons REVEALED in secret files
Bloody Disgusting:
Let's Examine the Real-Life UFO Encounter That Inspired 'Critters'
Spaceflight Insider:
Swan song: Final SpaceX Block 4 Falcon 9 launches CRS-15 cargo mission
Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Used Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station, Flexing Reusability Muscles
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX launches AI-enabled robot companion, vegetation monitor to space station
Space.com:
In Photos: SpaceX's Dazzling Dragon Launch to Space Station on CRS-15
Space.com:
See the 'Space Jellyfish' and Other Jaw-Dropping Views from SpaceX's Dragon Launch
Space.com:
Meet CIMON, the 1st Robot with Artificial Intelligence to Fly in Space
Spaceflight Insider:
Inside Opportunity: 'Oppy' fights for its life in massive Martian dust storm
Space.com:
Mars Is Closest to Earth Since 2003 This Month (There's a Long Blood Moon Eclipse, Too)!
June 29, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
How Boeing's Hypersonic Passenger Plane Concept Works
The Aviationist:
Heroism: How a Young U.S. Air Force B-1B Bomber Crew Saved an Aircraft and Crew Lives
Spaceflight History:
Lunar Viking (1970)
Space Review:
Keep dreaming, young lady, keep dreaming
San Diego Union-Tribune:
From the Archives June 17, 1963: First woman in space
New York Times:
Constance Adams, Architect of Space Habitats, Is Dead at 53
Astronomy Magazine:
The story of the Apollo sextant
June 28, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-15 resupply mission sending artificial intelligence, diverse science to ISS
Space.com:
Asteroid Arrival! Japanese Probe Reaches 'Spinning-Top' Space Rock Ryugu
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket Lab's first commercial launch scrubbed again
Space.com:
NASA Delays Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Again - This Time to 2021
Space.com:
This Is SpaceX's 1st Crewed Dragon Spaceship Destined for Space
Space.com:
Saturn Moon Enceladus Is First Alien 'Water World' with Complex Organics
Outer Places:
Indian Space Agency Discovers Massive Exoplanet Where Years Last Just 19 Days
Space.com:
Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Is a Comet After All
June 27, 2018
Engineering News-Record:
A Historic UFO Sighting, A Covered Bridge and an Earthly Dispute
Daily Mail:
An asteroid four times bigger than the UK is now so close to Earth that it's visible to the naked eye: Here's how to see it
Japan Times:
After 3.2 billion-kilometer journey, Japan's Hayabusa2 space explorer arrives on asteroid to retrieve samples
Space.com:
Technical Glitch Again Delays 1st Commercial Launch of Rocket Lab's Electron Booster
Space.com:
Blood Moon 2018: Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of Century Occurs July 27
June 26, 2018
Space.com:
No, China's Tiangong-2 Space Lab (Probably) Isn't About to Fall to Earth
Space.com:
A Japanese Probe Is Closing in on an Asteroid 180 Million Miles from Earth
Space.com:
Hayabusa2: Japan's 2nd Asteroid Sample Mission
Daily Mail:
Rosetta's kamikaze crash into a comet revealed: Final images from the probe reveals its last moments
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Jupiter May Have Gifted Early Earth With Water
June 25, 2018
EarthSky:
An asteroid exploded over Russia this week
Daily Mail:
Photographer captures the amazing moment a green fireball appears in the sky beside the moon and Venus in jaw-dropping image caught 'by cosmic chance'
Outer Places:
The International Space Station Released a Satellite Which Harpoons Space Junk For Its First Field Test
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX test-fires reused rocket in preparation for space station cargo mission
Outer Places:
SpaceX Will Send a New Robotic Hand Up to the International Space Station
Space.com:
Tracking System Glitch Delays Rocket Lab's 1st Commercial Electron Launch
Live Science:
Mars Will Soon 'Reverse Its Course' in the Sky
WEEKEND EDITION: June 23, 2018 through June 24, 2018
Scientific American:
Einstein's Greatest Theory Validated on a Galactic Scale
Space.com:
Relativity: The Thought Experiments Behind Einstein's Theory
IEEE Spectrum:
Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps
Forbes:
Lava From Kilauea's Eruption In Hawaii Is Flowing Faster Than You Can Run
Space.com:
Did Plate Tectonics Set the Stage for Life on Earth?
Daily Mail:
Strange half-a-billion-year-old balloon-shaped creature that doesn't fit into the tree of life is discovered in China
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover ancient lizard that hunted the shallow waters around Italy 75 million years ago
Daily Mail:
T. Rex couldn't stick its tongue out: Experts find the killer dinosaurs had a mouth like an alligator (but say it could still have ripped you to shreds)
Daily Mail:
Long-lost giant panda relative is found from DNA taken from a 22,000-year-old fossilised skull unearthed in a Chinese cave
Daily Mail:
Jawbone unearthed in a Spanish cave that is almost 1 MILLION years old is the oldest fossil of a human species ever found in Western Europe
Daily Mail:
Mystery of Scotland's strangely shaped stone balls: Archaeologists bewildered by 5,000-year-old carved objects
Daily Mail:
Story of Ashurbanipal, the 'greatest king you've never heard of', will be showcased at the British museum alongside hundreds of 7th century Assyrian treasures
Atlas Obscura:
Found: An Untouched 2,000-Year-Old City in Albania
Ancient Origins:
Silver cups from ancient Peruvian civilization change Chachapoya history
The History Blog:
YouTube masterclass on the Cosmati pavement
Mental Floss:
The Enduring Mystery of the Ghent Altarpiece, the World's Most-Stolen Painting
The History Blog:
Chinese vase carried in a shoebox to huge payday
The History Blog:
Monumental Tiepolo back on display after 4-year restoration
The Guardian:
Lord Nelson's watch expected to fetch up to £450,000 at Sotheby's
Atlas Obscura:
Sold: Napoleon's Hat, Salvaged From the Waterloo Battlefield
JStor:
Did North America's Longest Painting Inspire Moby-Dick?
Atlas Obscura:
The Ornate Ice Cream Saloons That Served Unchaperoned Women
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Hammond Train Wreck of 1918 Killed Scores of Circus Performers
History.com:
How Apples Became a Weapon Against the Great Depression
Timeline:
This was the only refugee camp in America for Jews fleeing the Nazis
Timeline:
She was one of the first black women to host a television show
Flashbak:
Sixty Years Ago the London Hippodrome Became the Talk of the Town
Daily Mail:
Inside America's Armageddon bunkers: Pictures show the once secret doomsday hideouts built to withstand a nuclear apocalypse
Flashbak:
Sixty Years Ago the London Hippodrome Became the Talk of the Town
Flashbak:
The Futuro House: Spaceship Living On Earth (1965)
History.com:
The Gay 'Sip-In' that Drew from the Civil Rights Movement to Fight Discrimination
New York Times:
Koko the Gorilla, Who Used Sign Language and Befriended Mr. Rogers, Dies at 46
Los Angeles Times:
What it's like to be interviewed for a job by Koko the gorilla: 'She had a lot to say'
The New Yorker:
Remembering Koko, a Gorilla We Loved
National Geographic:
Why Koko the Gorilla Mattered
June 22, 2018
Air & Space Magazine:
RAF 100
Air & Space Magazine:
Cairo to Baghdad in 1921
Air & Space Magazine:
Inside a Soviet ICBM Silo
Discover Magazine:
In Russia's Space Graveyard, Locals Scavenge Fallen Spacecraft for Profit
Popular Mechanics:
The Soviet Laser Space Pistol, Revealed
Popular Science:
The proposed Space Force isn't the first time the United States has tried to militarize space
June 21, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
RemoveDEBRIS launched from ISS to test ways to combat space junk
Space News:
China appears to be preparing to deorbit its Tiangong-2 space lab
Space.com:
Apollo Moon Rock Rediscovered in Cambodia Debuts on Display
Astrobiology Magazine:
Long suspected theory about the moon holds water
Space.com:
Why Does Venus Spin So Weirdly?
Outer Places:
Venus' Atmosphere is So Extreme That It Can Alter the Length of the Planet's Day
Daily Mail:
Is Curiosity in danger now, too? Shocking photo captured by the rover shows how dust has blanketed Mars' atmosphere as storm expands to circle the ENTIRE planet (and there's still no word from Opportunity)
Daily Mail:
The incredible blue dunes on the red planet: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal strange sand patterns
Outer Places:
Mars Will Look Brighter in the Night Sky Than It Has in 15 Years Next Month
June 20, 2018
Den of Geek:
U.S. Navy Had a UFO Encounter According to Leaked Military Report
The Local:
Toy UFO taken off shelves for 'teaching kids that Nazis achieved space travel'
C|Net:
Asteroid a half mile long about to make closest pass by Earth
Irish News:
Spacecraft takes photos as it approaches 'sweet dumpling' asteroid
Space.com:
Early Earth's Habitability Could Boost the Chances of Alien Life
June 19, 2018
Space.com:
This Flying Space Droid Wants to Make Friends with Astronauts
Stuff NZ:
Forget rocket fuel - US startup plans to build a space catapult
Space.com:
Aevum's New Rocket-Drone Airplane Duo Could Launch Satellites Every 3 Hours
Daily Mail:
Curiosity sends back a stunning selfie in the middle of a massive dust storm on Mars that has engulfed the red planet and crippled the Opportunity rover
Outer Places:
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Photographs an Avalanche Caused By a Meteor Strike
Astrobiology Magazine:
Explosive volcanoes spawned mysterious Martian rock formation
Outer Places:
An Animator Makes a Virtual Tour of Mars Based on Real NASA Data
June 18, 2018
Air & Space Magazine:
New Film Tells the Story of George Van Tassel and His UFO-Inspired "Integratron"
Spaceflight Now:
Station astronauts install new cameras on successful spacewalk
Space.com:
Chang'e-4 Relay Satellite Enters Halo Orbit Around Earth-Moon L2, Microsatellite in Lunar Orbit
Space.com:
Mars Dust Storm 2018: How It Grew & What It Means for the Opportunity Rover
Space.com:
NASA Continues Mars Sample Return Mission Studies
Spaceflight Now:
Dawn spacecraft flying low over Ceres
Forbes:
Will The Moon Ever Stop Drifting Away From Earth?
WEEKEND EDITION: June 16, 2018 through June 17, 2018
Scientific American:
The Standard Model (of Physics) at 50
Forbes:
Are Space And Time Quantized? Maybe Not, Says Science
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: If Mass Curves Spacetime, How Does It Un-Curve Again?
IEEE Spectrum:
Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision
Quartz:
There's about to be a lot more creepy Boston Dynamics robots in the world
Daily Republic:
Your barista is a robot. Should it be friendly?
Forbes:
Hawaii's Volcano Is Literally Erupting Gems
Forbes:
Yellowstone's Unpredictable Steamboat Geyser Just Went Off A 9th Time, As Predicted
Live Science:
This Claw-Faced Sea Monster Was Literally Born to Kill
History.com:
Dinosaurs Thrived After a Mass Extinction Killed Off the Competition
Popular Mechanics:
This 100-Million-Year-Old Frog Trapped in Amber Shows How Little Frogs Have Changed
ABC Australia:
Bigger than the Moa: Giant Australian bird the largest to ever walk the planet
Live Science:
Meet the Extinct Cow with a 'Bulldog' Skull
Live Science:
How a Daredevil Raccoon Pulled Off a Terrifying 23-Story Climb
Ancient Origins:
Did Neanderthals make jewelry 130,000 years go? Eagle claws provide clues
Ancient Origins:
10,000-Year-Old Ancient American Castaway Revealed ... and Finally Laid to Rest
Outlook India:
ASI unearths 'first-ever' physical evidence of Copper-Bronze age chariots
Ancient Origins:
How the Search for Immortality Killed the First Emperor of China
Ancient Origins:
The Original Swiss Army Knife: Check Out This Must Have Gadget for Guys on the Go
The History Blog:
Westminster Abbey gallery open after 700 years
The History Blog:
Branwell Bronte's portrait of his sisters goes home
Daily Mail:
Listen to the lost languages of California: Researchers recover audio of native languages with no surviving speakers from century-old wax cylinders
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Iroquois Theater Disaster Killed Hundreds and Changed Fire Safety Forever
History.com:
The Man Who Inspired Father's Day Was a Single Dad and a Civil War Vet
Smithsonian Magazine:
When America's Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I
Science News:
In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics
Atlas Obscura:
During the Great Depression, 'Penny Restaurants' Fed the Unemployed
History.com:
World Cup 1938: When Nazi Germany Forced Austrians to Play For Them - And Lost
Daily Mail:
America's secret nuclear suburbs: Incredible pictures reveal the hush-hush towns US built at the height of WWII to house 125,000 Manhattan Project scientists racing to complete the atom bomb before Hitler
History.com:
The Game Clue Was Borne of Boredom During WWII Air-Raid Blackouts
Popular Mechanics:
The Fearsome Nazi Tower That Held Off the Allies in Berlin
BuzzFeed:
This Is What The Sexual Revolution Looked Like In The 1960s
New York Times:
These 1970s Pageants Celebrated Black Women's Beauty
ZD Net:
Technology that changed us: The 1970s, from Pong to Apollo
ZD Net:
Technology that changed us: The 1980s, from MS-DOS to the first GPS satellite
ZD Net:
Technology that changed us: The 1990s, from WorldWideWeb to Google
ZD Net:
Technology that changed us: The 2000s, from iPhone to Twitter
ZD Net:
Technology that changed us: The 2010s, from Amazon Echo to Pokemon Go
Popular Mechanics:
What 7 Famous Ruins Would've Looked Like on the Inside When They Were New
June 15, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Here's the Newest Design From Larry Page's Flying Car Company
The Aviationist:
U.S. Navy Inducts MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Into Service Ahead Of First Operational Deployment to Guam
The Aviationist:
The Time I Found a Formerly Top Secret D-21 Supersonic Drone in the Arizona Desert
The Aviationist:
Skunk Works Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Innovation and Secrecy
June 14, 2018
Space.com:
NASA's Opportunity Mars Rover Is Battling a Dust Storm of Epic Proportions. Will It Survive?
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Opportunity rover goes silent as massive dust storm engulfs Mars
Spaceflight Now:
Huge dust storm knocks aging Mars rover out of contact with Earth
Space.com:
As Massive Dust Storm Rages on Mars, Opportunity Rover Falls Silent
Space News:
NASA continues Mars sample return mission studies
Outer Places:
Can Humans Prevent Bacteria From Contaminating Mars?
Space.com:
Interstellar Comet Dust Holds Clues About the Solar System
Popular Mechanics:
Three Newborn Planets Discovered Around an Infant Star
June 13, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese intelligence-gathering satellite successfully launched
Astrobiology Magazine:
Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate
Outer Places:
Astronomers Discover a Solar System Which Is Full of Rocky Planets the Same Size as Earth
Outer Places:
The ESO's 'Very Large Telescope' Captures Two Galaxies Undergoing a Very Close Encounter
Outer Places:
This New Giant Star Discovery May Revise the Entire History of Our Universe
June 12, 2018
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
From the Archives: UFO sightings in Virginia
The Verge:
NASA's Opportunity rover is battling a massive dust storm on Mars
Space.com:
Curiosity Didn't Find Life on Mars - But These 2 Future Rovers Might
Space.com:
Huge Dust Storm on Mars Hits NASA's Opportunity Rover
Spaceflight Now:
NASA approves three-year extension for Juno mission orbiting Jupiter
Space.com:
NASA Extends Juno Jupiter Mission Until July 2021
Forbes:
Our Obsession With Hidden Planets Didn't Start With Planet Nine
June 11, 2018
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
Space.com:
Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient 'Building Blocks for Life' on Mars
Spaceflight Now:
More signs of past - and possibly present - habitability of Mars
Spaceflight Insider:
International Space Station population doubles with arrival of Soyuz MS-09
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz delivers crew of three to International Space Station
Space.com:
Space Station Crew Doubles with Fresh Arrival
Space.com:
Expedition 56: The Space Station Mission in Photos
Space.com:
Touring Baikonur: The Town Behind the Famed Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Space.com:
Baikonur Reflections: The Life-Changing Experience of Witnessing a Soyuz Rocket Launch
Space.com:
Roscosmos: Russia's Space Centers and Launch Sites in Pictures
Space.com:
See the Breathtaking View from a Russian Soyuz Rocket As It Launches into Space
WEEKEND EDITION: June 9, 2018 through June 10, 2018
Forbes:
This Is Why Physicists Think String Theory Might Be Our 'Theory Of Everything'
Quanta Magazine:
There Are No Laws of Physics. There's Only the Landscape.
Seattle Times:
Animal robots' secretive maker slowly emerges from stealth
Seattle Times:
Boston Dynamics' scary robot videos: Are they for real?
Forbes:
Kilauea Volcano Eruption Filled In Hawaii's Biggest Lake In Hours, And Is Now Reshaping Coastline
Forbes:
Concern Grows After Yellowstone's Largest Geyser Erupts For 8th Time Since March
Popular Mechanics:
Scientists Discover Oldest Animal Footprints Found on Earth
Stuff.NZ:
Scientists find the 240-million-year-old 'mother of all lizards'
Live Science:
Dinosaur Sells for Over $2 Million at Auction. Why Paleontologists Are Dismayed
Atlas Obscura:
Dozens of Mysterious 'Reserve Heads' Were Sealed in Ancient Egyptian Tombs
Live Science:
4,000-Year-Old Jar Contains Italy's Oldest Olive Oil
The History Blog:
Intact 4th c. B.C. tomb found in Roman suburb
Popular Mechanics:
Duels, Blood, And Politics: The Little-Known History of the Gun That Killed Alexander Hamilton
History.com:
The Grisly Murder Trial That Helped Raise Abraham Lincoln's National Profile
Atlas Obscura:
How Corning, New York, Changed the World With Glass
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Woman Who Challenged the Idea that Black Communities Were Destined for Disease
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Ketchup Revolutionized How Food Is Grown, Processed and Regulated
San Francisco Chronicle:
Boomtime: What San Francisco looked like at the end of the Gold Rush
Daily Mail:
Operation Kill the Kaiser! The deadly secret mission by British flying aces to change the course of the First World War
Smithsonian Magazine:
World War I: 100 Years Later
The Sweetheart of the American Expeditionary Force
History.com:
These Jewish Resistance Volunteers Parachuted into Nazi-Occupied Europe
History.com:
Churchill and Roosevelt Spent Years Planning D-Day
Forbes:
How Geology Influenced The Landing In Normandy On D-Day
History.com:
Saving Private Ryan: The Real-Life D-Day Back Story
History.com:
The WWII Spy Who Faked His Death for 36 Years
Timeline:
This woman shattered the gender barrier in pro baseball
History.com:
Why MLK's Right-Hand Man Was Nearly Written Out of History
History.com:
The Secret 'White Trains' That Carried Nuclear Weapons Around the U.S.
Timeline:
Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged
Motherboard:
The Last NASA Scientist to Work on Nazi Rockets Has Died
June 8, 2018
Daily Mail:
Do YOU have what it takes to be an astronaut? Tim Peake reveals the puzzles he had to solve during his selection tests to go into space
Air & Space Magazine:
Robert Goddard Was the Father of American Rocketry. But Did He Have Much Impact?
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Rocket Built for Space
The Register:
America's forgotten space station and a mission tinged with urine, we salute you
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
Throwback Thursday: Astronauts visit area for boats in 1960s
Forbes:
Historic Mission Control Center In Houston Is Restoring, Recreating Its Apollo Era
Interesting Engineering:
The Evolution of the Spacesuit: From the Project Mercury Suit to the Aouda.X Human-Machine Interface
June 7, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-09 on its way to ISS after textbook launch
Space.com:
Here's What Astronauts Will Look for Flying on SpaceX and Boeing Spaceships
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's New Horizons probe wakes up for New Year's Day flyby
Popular Science:
Where does outer space start?
Space.com:
Days on Earth Are Getting Longer, Thanks to the Moon
Voice of America:
'Alien Asteroid' Could Be Oldest Object in Our Solar System
Popular Science:
What's hiding in the outer solar system?
Popular Mechanics:
A New Study Could Explain Away Some Evidence for Planet Nine
Space.com:
The Moons of Some Giant Alien Planets Could Host Life
June 6, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
After previous crew's return, new space station residents set for launch Wednesday
Space.com:
Last Days on Earth: A Russian Rocket Launch Road Trip
Outer Places:
SpaceX Delays Their Plans to Send Tourists to The Moon This Year
Space.com:
Mars Cubesats Make History with Deep-Space Maneuver
Space.com:
What Has NASA's Curiosity Found on Mars? We'll Find Out Thursday
Space.com:
Pluto Has Dunes, But They're Not Made of Sand
Live Science:
The Secret Backstory Behind Kazakhstan's Rocket Launch Site
Space.com:
Vostochny: Russian Launch Center in Siberia
June 5, 2018
Sky & Telescope:
Asteroid 2018 LA Explodes Over Botswana Hours After Discovery
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket for next station crew transferred to launch pad in Kazakhstan
Space.com:
SpaceX's Arabsat Falcon Heavy Mission to Launch in December-January Timeframe
Space.com:
NASA Will Launch a Probe to Study the Solar System's Protective Bubble in 2024
Space.com:
SpaceX Just Missed Catching Rocket Nose Cone During Launch Last Week (Photos)
Space.com:
NASA Is About to Have Its Closest Encounter Ever with Dwarf Planet Ceres
Space.com:
Experience a Soyuz Spacecraft Landing with This Amazing 360-Degree, VR Video
June 4, 2018
Tech Times:
Leaked Pentagon Report Reveals Supersonic UFO That Could Make Itself Invisible Interacted With Mysterious Underwater Object
EarthSky:
Small asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere Saturday
ITV News:
'Flaming' meteor lights up night sky in China
Spaceflight Now:
Chinese data relay satellite nears post over far side of the moon
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-07 crew back on Earth after 168 days in orbit.
Space.com:
Soyuz Capsule Returns Station Crew to Earth After 168 Days in Space
Spaceflight Now:
Space station crew closes out 168-day mission
Space.com:
Pre-Flown SpaceX Rocket Launches Commercial Communications Satellite
WEEKEND EDITION: June 2, 2018 through June 3, 2018
Singularity Hub:
The Standard Model of Particle Physics: The Absolutely Amazing Theory of Almost Everything
Scientific American:
Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think
Popular Mechanics:
We Already Know How To Build a Time Machine
Digital Trends:
Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot evolve from a stagger to a sprint
The Conversation:
Why we programmed a robot to act like a sheepdog
The Register:
Softbank's 'Pepper' robot is a security joke
Daily Galaxy:
New Theories -- Early Earth Evolved from Endless Eruptions of Volcanoes Like Jupiter's Io to a World of Plate Tectonics
Newsweek:
When Will the Next Supervolcano Erupt? New Model Suggests It Depends on Local Plate Tectonics
Mental Floss:
15 Facts About Lava
Jstor:
These Lizard-Dolphin Creatures Ruled the Seas for 150 Million Years
Outer Places:
Paleontologists Confirm a Reptile Fossil is the Ancient 'Mother of All Lizards'
New Atlas:
Reptilian-mammal fossil changes the timeline of supercontinent breakup
Popular Mechanics:
Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Tail Preserved in Amber
Astrobiology Magazine:
When the dinosaurs died, so did forests - and tree-dwelling birds
Ars Technica:
Life returned to crater of Cretaceous asteroid in the blink of an eye
Gizmodo:
New Evidence Reveals a 17,000-Year-Old Coastal Route Into North America
The History Blog:
Ancient Corinthian helmet found in Russia
The History Blog:
Man pinned by huge stone found at Pompeii
IFL Science:
300-Year-Old Shipwreck May Hold The Most Valuable Treasure Ever Lost At Sea
The History Blog:
Hamilton-Burr dueling pistols on rare public display
History.com:
America's First Multimillionaire Got Rich Smuggling Opium
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The torturous path to finding the source of the Nile
Jstor:
The French Perfume Boom
History.com:
World War II's 'Most Dangerous' Allied Spy Was a Woman With a Wooden Leg
Daily Mail:
The OTHER Battle of Britain: How team of MI5 agents with a 'licence to kill' targeted hawks that were intercepting undercover British spy pigeons in WWI
History.com:
Julia Child's Spy Days Included Work on a Shark Repellent
History.com:
Did a Jewish Collaborator Betray Anne Frank to the Nazis?
The Conversation:
Agatha Christie: world's first historical whodunnit was inspired by 4,000 year-old letters
History.com:
What Happened to the Unabomber at Harvard?
Live Science:
What Ever Happened to the 'Mission Impossible' Rare-Book Thieves? We Investigated.
Live Science:
Tesla on Autopilot Crashes into Parked Police Car
Atlas Obscura:
The Vanishing World of Neon Motel Signs
June 1, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Check Out This Exhaustively Detailed Manual for the A-10 Warthog
Jalopnik:
Russia Just Tested A Whole Bunch Of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles All At Once
Popular Mechanics:
The U.S. Air Force's First Flying Wing Jet Flew Way Back in 1949
Popular Mechanics:
The Forgotten True Story of Alan Bean's Unlikely Journey to the Moon
Space.com:
Photos: Space Age Postage Stamps Through History
May 31, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Inside China's New Space Station
Space.com:
China's Space Station Will Be Open to Science from All UN Nations
Spaceflight Now:
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo completes second powered test flight
Universe Today:
Virgin Galactic Performs the Second Test of VSS Unity, Reaching Mach 1.9
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's Crew Dragon edging closer to flight
Space.com:
Fly Along on a Virgin Galactic Test Flight in This Awesome Video
Space.com:
Populating a Mars Base Will Be Dangerously Unsexy
Outer Places:
'Black Beauty' Meteorite Study Reveals the Secrets of Mars' Strange Topography
Outer Places:
In Largest Planet Discovery Ever, Scientists Say They Found 838 New Worlds Beyond Neptune
Outer Places:
New Research Says the Milky Way Is Far Bigger Than We Thought Possible
Scientific American:
Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite and Comet: What's the Difference?
May 30, 2018
New Zealand Herald:
US aircraft carrier was 'stalked for days by a UFO', leaked Pentagon report reveals
Huffington Post:
Military Report: UFOs May Have Attempted Rendezvous With Giant Undersea Object
Newsweek:
Pentagon's Secret UFO Program Investigated Poltergeist Connection to Alien Mystery
Space News:
Second SpaceShipTwo makes second powered test flight
Spaceflight Insider:
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity makes second powered flight
Outer Places:
NASA's Interactive 'Exoplanet Travel Bureau' Lets You Virtually Explore Planets in Distant Solar Systems
May 29, 2018
Space.com:
NASA's InSight Mars Lander Fires Up Its Engines in Space for 1st Time
Space.com:
Chang'e-4: Visiting the Far Side of the Moon
Space.com:
Study Offers Pessimistic Outlook for Commercial Space Stations
Space.com:
Vesta: Facts About the Brightest Asteroid
Space.com:
Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo Moonwalker-Turned-Artist, Dies at 86
Space.com:
Decoding Alien Messages Could Be the Biggest Citizen-Science Project Ever
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EDITION: May 26, 2018 through May 28, 2018
NBC News:
What is the multiverse?
Big Think:
Do aliens exist in the multiverse? New studies show it's way more likely than scientists thought
Phys.org:
How a particle may stand still in rotating spacetime
Space.com:
Forgotten Element Could Redefine Time
Popular Mechanics:
Disney's New Robot Is a One-Legged Acrobat
Space.com:
Something Is Sucking Iron Out of Earth's Crust, and Scientists Think They Know What
Space.com:
Earth's Magnetic Field Is Drifting Westward, and Nobody Knows Why
Space.com:
Why Formamide May Have Been Early Life's Alternative to Water
Daily Mail:
The fossil skull that could rewrite the history of Earth's continents: Remains of primitive mammal discovered in Utah suggest Pangea supercontinent split much later than previously thought
Daily Mail:
Perfectly preserved 125 million-year-old dinosaur dandruff reveals they shed their skin in the same way we do
Space.com:
Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact Warmed Earth's Climate for 100,000 Years
Daily Mail:
Birds had to learn to fly all over again after asteroid apocalypse that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
Space.com:
Could Recent Supernova Explosions Have Caused Mass Extinctions on Earth?
The History Blog:
Intact Bronze Age cremation found in Cornwall
The History Blog:
Bog find sheds light on war practices of Germanic tribes
The History Blog:
Row of houses with balconies found in Pompeii
The History Blog:
Earliest evidence of Roman military found in Poland
History.com:
Why 'Bad King John' was actually good
The History Blog:
First new Rembrandt since 1974 identified
Smithsonian Magazine:
Why the Very First Treaty Between the United States and a Native People Still Resonates Today
Jstor:
Stranded on the Island of the Blue Dolphins: The True Story of Juana Maria
Flashbak:
Spectacular Photographs Of America's Western Frontier (1867-1874)
Jstor:
Why the French Revolution's "Rational" Calendar Wasn't
History.com:
How American 'Dollar Princesses' Invaded British High Society
Flashbak:
Remembering the 'Saurian Monster' That Terrorized 1880s New Zealand
The History Blog:
Lost Debussy score rediscovered
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Factory That Oreos Built
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Lost Maidens of Berlin
History.com:
A Harlem Hellfighter's Searing Tales from the WWI Trenches
History.com:
General Pershing's Run for President Was a Sure Thing -- Until His Troops Spoke Up
Flashbak:
Photos From The King of the Indiscreet's Candid Camera
History.com:
For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
History.com:
Killing Hitler's hangman: the dramatic story of Reinhard Heydrich's assassination
Smithsonian Magazine:
Seventy-Five Years Ago, Women's Baseball Players Took the Field
Smithsonian Magazine:
Hitler's Teeth Confirm He Died in 1945
History.com:
Glorious Behind the Scenes Photos of Queen Elizabeth's 1947 Wedding
History.com:
Glorious Behind the Scenes Photos of Queen Elizabeth's 1947 Wedding
History.com:
Frank Sinatra's Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File
Flashbak:
46 GI Snapshots Of The Korean War In Color
History.com:
Brown v. Board of Education: The First Step in the Desegregation of America's Schools
Timeline:
When the resistance confronted Democrats in 1968, the crackdown was vicious
History.com:
Did Nixon's 'Laugh-In' Cameo Help Him Win the 1968 Election?
Flashbak:
J.K. Rowling Sketches And Plot Outlines For Harry Potter
The Guardian:
Facebook accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps
Popular Mechanics:
10 of America's Hidden Battlefields
May 25, 2018
Space.com:
Here's What We Know About Russia's Hypersonic Waverider Weapon
Space.com:
'Impossible' EmDrive Space Thruster May Really Be Impossible
Space.com:
World's First Commercial Airline
Space.com:
Apollo 12 in Pictures: Photos from NASA's Pinpoint Moon Landing Mission
Space.com:
Could We Build the Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars'?
May 24, 2018
City Pages:
The Val Johnson Incident: A UFO encounter that made Marshall County famous
Motherboard:
The Pentagon Released New Documents About the 'Tic-Tac UFO'
Space.com:
Orbital ATK Cygnus Cargo Ship Delivers Science Gear (and Goodies) to Space Station
Spaceflight Now:
Cygnus arrives at station with CubeSats, quantum physics experiment
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX test-fires previously-flown rocket for May 31 launch
Spaceflight Now:
New helium tank for SpaceX crew launches still waiting to fly
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket Lab updates launch window for first commercial mission
Space.com:
NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars Just Snagged Its 1st Drilled Samples Since 2016
Space.com:
Pluto May Have Formed from 1 Billion Comets
May 23, 2018
Drive - The War Zone:
Detailed Official Report On Harrowing Encounter Between F/A-18s and UFO Surfaces
Spaceflight Insider:
China's first private rocket reaches 127,000 feet on maiden flight
Space.com:
SpaceX Launches Twin NASA Probes to Track Earth's Water (and Satellites Hitch a Ride)
Spaceflight Insider:
Update: Curiosity rover successfully drills hole in 'Duluth'
Space.com:
Ceres: The Smallest and Closest Dwarf Planet
Space.com:
Weird Space Rock Provides More Evidence for Mysterious 'Planet Nine'
May 22, 2018
Space.com:
China Joins Private Space Race with Landmark OneSpace Rocket Launch
Space.com:
Antares Rocket Launches NASA Cargo to Space Station in Dazzling Predawn Liftoff
Space.com:
Launch Photos: Orbital ATK's Antares Rocket & Cygnus OA-9 Soar to ISS!
Space.com:
Found! Weird Asteroid in Jupiter's Orbit Is 1st Interstellar Immigrant
Space.com:
Here's Why Saturn's Inner Moons Are Shaped Like Ravioli and Potatoes
May 21, 2018
Space.com:
China Launches Relay Satellite for Mission to Moon's Far Side
Space.com:
Angara: Russian Rocket for LEO payloads
Space.com:
NASA Wants Science Instrument Ideas for Europa Lander Mission
Space.com:
Mars at Opposition 2018: How to See It and What to Expect
Space.com:
Ringed, Rocky Alien Planets May Hide in Plain Sight
Space.com:
Giant Waves Nearly Half a Million Miles Across Seen on the Sun for the First Time
WEEKEND EDITION: May 19, 2018 through May 20, 2018
Daily Mail:
The million year time machine: Antarctic ice core could give unprecedented glimpse of Earth's history
Daily Mail:
The hidden world under Antarctica: Scientists find massive mountain ranges and vast canyons that run for hundreds of miles beneath the ice
Daily Mail:
Jurassic Park was wrong! Pterodactyls DIDN'T fly like bats, according to new research
The History Blog:
Row of houses with balconies found in Pompeii
Daily Mail:
The ancient calendar carved into stone that lay hidden for 900 years: Over 1,000 petroglyphs discovered in Arizona's Verde Valley were likely a 'way to track time' using the sun
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Dutch Art Dealer Says He Discovered a New Rembrandt
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Smithsonian Magazine:
Delivering the Mail Was Once One of the Riskiest Jobs in America
Smithsonian Magazine:
How the Inverted Jenny, a 24-Cent Stamp, Came to Be Worth a Fortune
Smithsonian Magazine:
How a British Engineer Made a Bomb That Could Bounce On Water
Smithsonian Magazine:
Researchers Decipher Two Hidden Pages of Anne Frank's Diary
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Army's First Black Nurses Were Relegated to Caring for Nazi Prisoners of War
Smithsonian Magazine:
Polaroid Inventor Edwin Land Gave Us More Than Just Instant Photos
Popular Mechanics:
How to Build a Treehouse in the Backyard
Popular Mechanics:
12 Really Cool Retro Control Rooms
May 18, 2018
Drive - The War Zone:
Mystery Guided Munition Executes Incredible Maneuver In Strange Airstrike Footage
Popular Mechanics:
How to Fly a Helicopter on Mars
Popular Mechanics:
'Gremlins' Will Turn Airplanes Into Flying Aircraft Carriers
Gizmodo:
Here's Some Rare Footage Of The SR-71 Blackbird Testing
Popular Mechanics:
You Should Read "The Right Stuff"
May 17, 2018
KCET-TV:
Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron
Space.com:
Aliens May Well Exist in a Parallel Universe, New Studies Find
Charlotte Observer:
Red fireball with 'glowing white train' reported over NC, Virginia. What was it?
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Fireball seen in skies above Fredericksburg Tuesday night
Spaceflight Now:
First interplanetary CubeSats already setting records in deep space
Spaceflight Now:
New target dates set for next two Falcon 9 launches
Space.com:
SpaceX Launch of NASA and Iridium Satellites Delayed Until May 22
Space.com:
China Wraps Up 1-Year Mock Moon Mission to Lunar Palace 1
Space.com:
China Preparing to Launch Chang'e-4 Relay Satellite May 21
Space.com:
Lunar Palace 1: China's One-Year Mock Moon Mission in Pictures
Space.com:
Moon Dust Is Super Toxic to Human Cells
Popular Science:
Watch astronauts fix a leaky pump in space
Outer Places:
Scientists Say New 'Planet 9' Evidence May Solve the Greatest Mystery in Our Solar System
May 16, 2018
Space.com:
'Lost' Asteroid 2010 WC9 Makes an Unusually Close Flyby of Earth
NBC News:
Asteroid the size of a city block just gave Earth a close shave
Space.com:
A Pioneering NASA Satellite Just Fell to Earth After 2 Decades in Space
Spaceflight Now:
Astronauts reposition space station cooling pumps on successful spacewalk
Space.com:
Spacewalking Astronauts Replace Leaky Pump on Space Station
Space.com:
The Largest Parachute Ever Built for Mars Aces Its First Test
Space.com:
Tiny, Mars-Bound Satellite Snaps Its First Image of Earth and the Moon
Spaceflight Now:
Water plumes on Europa detected by Galileo spacecraft
Space.com:
Watch a Student-Built Rocket Go Supersonic!
May 15, 2018
Outer Places:
A 'Mars Helicopter' Will Fly on the Red Planet When NASA Sends Its Next Rover
Space News:
NASA agrees to fly helicopter demo on Mars 2020
Spaceflight Insider:
Strained Mars data relay capabilities possible in 2020s
Universe Today:
How Many of Earth's Moons Crashed Back Into the Planet?
Universe Today:
The Giant Planets in the Solar System Stunted the Growth of Mars
Universe Today:
Jupiter and Venus Change Earth's Orbit Every 405,000 Years
May 14, 2018
Lafayette Journal & Courier:
Old Lafayette: Four UFO sightings mystify Lafayette
Outer Places:
Long Lost Asteroid is Rediscovered Just Before Making a Close Pass by Earth
San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Close encounter: Asteroid as big as a football field will whiz right by Earth this week
Space News:
SpaceX launches Bangladeshi satellite on debut Block 5 Falcon 9 mission
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX debuts new model of the Falcon 9 rocket designed for astronauts
Space News:
SpaceX targeting 24-hour turnaround in 2019, full reusability still in the works
Space.com:
Photos: SpaceX Launches, Lands 1st 'Block 5' Falcon 9 Rocket
WEEKEND EDITION: May 12, 2018 through May 13, 2018
Space.com:
Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
The Guardian:
The answer to life, the universe and everything might be 73. Or 67
New Atlas:
Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can now chase you through the woods
Live Science:
78-Foot Wave Is the Largest Ever Recorded in Southern Hemisphere
Daily Mail:
Ancient crocodiles evolved into strange dolphin-like creatures with BOTH a tail fin and armour plating, reveal researchers studying Jurassic fossil dating back 180 million years
The Guardian:
Rare dinosaur skeleton for sale - along with the right to name species
Live Science:
This Huge, Ancient Whale Would Have Ripped You to Shreds
Popular Science:
Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska
Live Science:
Ancient Lost City of Mardaman Uncovered in Iraq
Daily Mail:
Strain of hepatitis B found on a 4,500-year-old skeleton is the oldest human virus ever to be discovered
History.com:
How Unflattering Royal Portraits Could Break a Marriage Contract
BBC History Extra:
Mary, Queen of Scots: what happened to her ladies-in-waiting?
BBC History Extra:
What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?
History.com:
The assassination of prime minister Spencer Perceval: a popular murder?
Timeline:
Born into slavery, this man won the Kentucky Derby three times and became the richest American athlete
The History Blog:
Louise Brooks dances in Technicolor
Timeline:
Photos: Depression-era billboards sold and celebrated the "American way"
Timeline:
Welcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt in the U.S.
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Literary Salon That Made Ayn Rand Famous
Smithsonian Magazine:
In Its Heyday, Mad Magazine Was a Lot More Than Silly Jokes
History.com:
How 'Deep Throat' Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Surprising Story of the American Girl Who Broke Through the Iron Curtain
History.com:
The Chernobyl Cover-Up: How Officials Botched Evacuating an Irradiated City
Drive - The War Zone:
These Are Real Pentagon Reports On Warp Drive, Extra Dimensions, Anti-Gravity, And More
May 11, 2018
New Atlas:
The six Skyport designs that could provide the launchpad for Uber's flying taxis
Drive - The War Zone:
China Teases Its H-20 Stealth Bomber and Trolls Northrop Grumman At The Same Time
Popular Mechanics:
'A Suicide Club': How WWI Pilots Pioneered the Age of Airmail
Spaceflight History:
Saturn-Apollo Applications: Combining Missions to Save Rockets, Spacecraft, and Money (1966)
May 10, 2018
Space.com:
Robonaut Returns to Earth for Repairs After Seven Years on Space Station
Daily Mail:
SpaceX prepares to launch its first 'Block 5' Falcon 9 rocket that could be reused 100 TIMES and eventually carry astronauts to space
The Verge:
SpaceX's last Falcon 9 upgrade could finally make reusable rockets cost-effective
Space.com:
Bound for Mars, World's 1st Interplanetary Cubesats Phone Home
Space.com:
Ancient, Exiled Asteroid Discovered Beyond Neptune
Daily Mail:
Mysterious stars from outside the Milky Way are seen zooming through the galaxy at 1.5 MILLION miles per hour
May 9, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
First launch of enhanced version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 set for Thursday
Space.com:
SpaceX Set to Debut Newest Falcon 9 Rocket: 'Block 5'
Space.com:
See a SpaceX Rocket Fairing Glide Back to Earth in This Awesome Photo
Space News:
NASA argues Resource Prospector no longer fit into agency's lunar exploration plans
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover rare mineral in lunar meteorite that suggests frozen water may be hiding beneath the moon's surface
May 8, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Reused Dragon cargo carrier splashes down in Pacific Ocean
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-14 Dragon returns experiments, hardware to Earth
Popular Mechanics:
SpaceX Test-Fires New Falcon 9 Block 5 Rocket Ahead of Maiden Flight (Updated)
Popular Mechanics:
Screws and Washers Are Falling Off NASA's Multi-Billion Dollar Space Telescope
Space News:
Decision expected soon on adding helicopter to Mars 2020
May 7, 2018
Eastern Daily Press:
Weird Norfolk: Abiding mystery of the county's 1954 UFO sightings
The Guardian:
Documents reveal how MoD played down 'UFO thesis' in X-Files study
CBS News:
NASA launches InSight lander toward Mars
Sky & Telescope:
InSight Lander Heads to Mars
Space.com:
NASA's InSight Mars Lander Has Left Earth: So What's Next for the Probe?
The Register:
Put Nov. 26th in your diary: that's when Mars InSight lands. Hopefully
Spaceflight Insider:
GALLERY: NASA's InSight lander heads to Mars atop ULA Atlas V
Forbes:
What You Need To Know About NASA's Insight Mission [Infographic]
WEEKEND EDITION: May 5, 2018 through May 6, 2018
New Atlas:
Stephen Hawking's final paper bursts the multiverse bubble with a Holographic Universe theory
Forbes:
Could Artificial Intelligence Solve The Problems Einstein Couldn't?
Daily Mail:
How Earth's continents have shifted: Interactive map lets you travel back in time to see our planet over 600 million years of its history
Space.com:
Why Earth's Magnetic Field Might Not Flip After All
Atlas Obscura:
The World's Tallest Active Geyser Keeps Erupting
Astrobiology Magazine:
Why formamide may have been early life's alternative to water
Inverse:
Tween Discovers 475-Million-Year-Old Fossil in a Huge Win for Paleontology
Astrobiology Magazine:
Dinosaurs ended - and originated - with a bang!
JStor:
These Lizard-Dolphin Creatures Ruled The Seas For 150 Million Years
New Atlas:
Nature's first known beak belonged to this dinosaur
Daily Mail:
Scientists uncover eight million-year-old elephant-like fossil in Macedonia that 'weighed 10 tons and lived for 50 years'
Popular Science:
This albatross couple adopted a baby of another species
Inverse:
Italy's Supervolcano and the End of the Neanderthals
Ars Technica:
Neanderthals etched a message on this 36,000-year-old stone tool
The History Blog:
Roman artifacts attest to 1st c. Batavian rebellion
The History Blog:
Anne of Brittany's heart stolen, found
Daily Mail:
Bloodthirsty death notice dictated by Henry VIII where he calls for a 16th-Century monk to be hanged, disembowelled and chopped into four with his body parts displayed 'around the country' goes on display
Atlas Obscura:
New Guineans Made Intricately Carved Daggers From Human Bones
JStor:
The Fairytale Language Of The Brothers Grimm
Atlas Obscura:
Greenland's Hand-Sized Wooden Maps Were Used for Storytelling, Not Navigation
Flashbak:
Pablo Picasso's Illustrated Postcards To His Friends
Flashbak:
Art Of The Sioux; Childhood Visions Of War, Love And Blood At Fort Yates
History.com:
Why Was the Battle of the Somme So Deadly?
History.com:
The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story Behind Rube Goldberg's Complicated Contraptions
History.com:
The Mystery of Nikola Tesla's Missing Files
Atlas Obscura:
How the Manhattan Project's Nuclear Suburb Stayed Secret
Atlas Obscura:
The Life and Times of Brighty, the Grand Canyon's Most Legendary Burro
Smithsonian Magazine:
Fifty Years Later, France Is Still Debating the Legacy of Its 1968 Protests
BBC History Extra:
Britain's 7 most amazing ruins
May 4, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Private Companies Took Over Rocket Launches. Can They Do the Same For Moon Landers?
Popular Science:
China has big plans for a modern bomber
Pensacola News Journal:
Goodspeed: Space Shuttle Columbia captivated the country in 1981
Spaceflight History:
Log of a Moon Expedition (1969)
Popular Science:
Can you pass the test NASA gave potential astronauts in 1958?
May 3, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon cargo craft's return to Earth delayed to Saturday
Spaceflight Insider:
High seas force postponement of CRS-14 Dragon departure from ISS
Space News:
NASA struggling to get James Webb Space Telescope across the finish line
Space.com:
Rare Metals on Mars and Earth Point to Colossal Impacts
Space.com:
An Exoplanet First! Helium Spotted on Bizarre Comet-Like World
May 2, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Meet InSight: The Mission To Measure Marsquakes and Unlock the Red Planet
Space.com:
NASA's Mars Cubesats 'Wall-E' and 'Eva' Will Be First at Another Planet
Astrobiology Magazine:
New Estimates of Mercury's Thin, Dense Crust
Space.com:
Dawn Mission: Shedding Light on Asteroids
Space.com:
Vladimir Lyakhov, Soviet-Era Cosmonaut Who Flew to Three Space Stations, Dies at 76
May 1, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Twin MarCo CubeSats launching alongside NASA's InSight Mars mission
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: NASA's InSight lander buttoned up for trip to Mars
Space News:
China to test rocket reusability with planned Long March 8 launcher
Astrobiology Magazine:
Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon's early magnetic field
Astrobiology Magazine:
Old Data, New Tricks: Fresh Results from NASA's Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On
April 30, 2018
Newsweek:
What If Aliens Met Racists? MUFON Resignations Highlight Internal Divisions in UFO Sightings Organization
Space News:
New Shepard reaches space on eighth test flight
Space.com:
NASA Pushes for Moon, Deep Space with Crucial Tests
Space News:
NASA emphasizes commercial lunar lander plans with Resource Prospector cancellation
Spaceflight Insider:
Mars 2020 rover heat shield fracture discovered
Space News:
Cracked heat shield won't delay Mars 2020 mission
Outer Places:
ExoMars Orbiter Reveals Its First Image of an Icy Martian Crater
WEEKEND EDITION: April 28, 2018 through April 29, 2018
Cosmos:
Cracks in the universe: the search for cosmic strings
Financial Times:
Carlo Rovelli on the meaning of time
Scientific American:
Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality?
Daily Mail:
The real-life 12ft Transformer that morphs from a robot into a working two-seater CAR within a minute
Kansas City Star:
'Armadillo on steroids': Kansas dinosaur returns to haunt KU
Discover Magazine:
Dinosaur Teeth Show Which Species Preferred Squishier Prey
Atlas Obscura:
The Puzzles and Pitfalls of Reconstructing the Largest Ever Land Mammal
Smithsonian Magazine:
Giant, Intact Egg of the Extinct Elephant Bird Found in Buffalo Museum
Daily Mail:
Neanderthals may have crossed the seas THOUSANDS of years before modern humans, researchers say
Daily Mail:
Mysterious wooden statue that once stood over 17 FEET TALL is twice as old as the pyramids in Egypt and may hold clues about the mythology of hunter-gatherers that lived 11,600 years ago
ABC Australia:
How to hunt a giant sloth, according to ancient human footprints
History.com:
Early Americans Buried Their Dogs Like Family
Inverse:
Ancient Entombed Horse Was So Well Loved It Still Has Hair on Its Legs
Daily Mail:
The maps that changed the world: Incredible atlases used by ancient explorers to travel the Earth could fetch millions at auction
BBC History Extra:
Richard Burbage: The vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare
History.com:
How a Black Spy Infiltrated the Confederate White House
Smithsonian Magazine:
What Made Oscar Tschirky the King of Gilded Age New York
History.com:
These Appalling Images Exposed Child Labor in America
Popular Mechanics:
The First Tank-on-Tank Battle Happened 100 Years Ago
History.com:
A Smoking Robot Ruled the 1939 World's Fair
History.com:
9 Blades that Forged History
Scientific American:
Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth before Ours?
Popular Mechanics:
This Etch A Sketch History of Calculus Helped Get a Kid Into Caltech and MIT
April 27, 2018
Forbes:
Why Do Stealth Aircraft Look Like Insects Or Triangles?
The Aviationist:
It's Been 10 Years Since The F-117 Nighthawk Retired (At Least, Officially...)
Air & Space Magazine:
Forgotten Aircraft of the RAF
Air & Space Magazine:
Three Days in a (Really) Stinking Airplane
Popular Science:
The CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft
Geek.com:
6 Most Under-Appreciated Space Missions
April 26, 2018
History.com:
The 5 Most Credible Modern UFO Sightings
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's new planet-hunting satellite begins climb into science orbit
Spaceflight Now:
InSight Mars lander joined with Atlas 5 launcher at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Space News:
China launches five commercial remote sensing satellites via Long March 11
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX set to debut Falcon 9 rocket upgrades with launch next week
Outer Places:
NASA and ESA Are Determined to Bring Lots of Martian Soil Back to Earth
Space.com:
Saturn's Multicolored Rings Dazzle in Photo by Cassini Spacecraft
April 25, 2018
Decider:
'Unsolved Mysteries': 15 UFO Episodes That Are Out of This World
EarthSky:
1st deep-space CubeSats ready for launch to Mars
Space.com:
Twin-Star Systems May Give Their 'Tatooine' Planets the Boot (Here's Why)
New Atlas:
New NASA video reveals a solar system swarming with comets and asteroids
Business Insider:
A stunning new video shows what it's like to fly past a comet tumbling through space
April 24, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
After "terrific" launch, TESS nears first major orbit-raising burn
Live Science:
How a Guy in the Netherlands Spotted the Top Secret X-37B Space Plane
Space Daily:
The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon Base
Space Daily:
Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?
Universe Today:
If We're Searching for Earth 2.0, Would We Know It When We Find It?
April 23, 2018
WPG-FM:
Fireball Lights Up the New Jersey Sky Thursday Night
Daily Mail:
Nasa will have a space station that will orbit the moon in 2025 to act as an outpost for astronauts travelling to Mars
Space News:
Boeing, Lockheed, ULA corner the government-funded space market. SpaceX moving up
The Conversation:
Mysterious red spots on Mercury get names - but what are they?
Daily Mail:
Scientists say they're 'confident' polygon features seen on Mars were formed by MUD, suggesting lakes on the red planet behaved like those on Earth
WEEKEND EDITION: April 21, 2018 through April 22, 2018
Forbes:
The Most Important Equation In The Universe
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: How Will Our Universe End?
Quanta:
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
IEEE Spectrum:
What People See in 157 Robot Faces
CNN:
Festo's fantastical robots inspired by animals and insects
San Francisco Chronicle:
The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen
Forbes:
Half Of The Great Barrier Reef Has Died Since 2016
Popular Science:
These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time
Stuff NZ:
'Oldest' baleen whale in the world found in a South Island quarry
Daily Mail:
350-year-old mystery of the world's best preserved dodo specimen is solved: Scientists say the bird was SHOT dead in Oxford
IFL Science:
Adorable Critter Rediscovered After Being Presumed Extinct For 32 Years
Daily Mail:
Thousands of fragments of a 26ft 'colossus' statue of pharaoh Psamtik I smashed to pieces in the 11th century are uncovered in Egypt
BBC History Extra:
10 surprising facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest
BBC History Extra:
Tudor timeline: 10 momentous dates
History.com:
How Anne Boleyn Lost Her Head
Smithsonian Magazine:
Cache of Benjamin Franklin's Original Manuscripts - Doodles and All - Gets Digitized
History.com:
The Sex Scandal That Ruined Alexander Hamilton's Chances of Becoming President
The Conversation:
Before Westworld was Mudfog - Charles Dickens' surprisingly modern dystopia
Atlas Obscura:
The 'Pedestrian' Who Became One of America's First Black Sports Stars
History.com:
How the Sinking of Lusitania Changed World War I
The Conversation:
Superman at 80: How two high school friends concocted the original comic book hero
BBC History Extra:
The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
History.com:
How the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Inspired Rebellion in a Nazi Death Camp
Popular Mechanics:
Russian Museum Recreates WWII-Era 'Land Battleship'
Atlas Obscura:
The Rise and Fall of the Hormel Girls, Who Sold America on SPAM
Flashbak:
The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town
History.com:
How Columbia's Student Uprising of 1968 Was Sparked by a Segregated Gym
Smithsonian Magazine:
When the Unabomber Was Arrested, One of the Longest Manhunts in FBI History Was Finally Over
Popular Mechanics:
Government Accidentally Releases Documents on "Psycho-Electric" Weapons
April 20, 2018
Daily Mail:
World's biggest plane with 2 cockpits, 6 jet engines and a wingspan longer than a football field will take off within MONTHS
Jalopnik:
The Christmas Bullet Was The Worst Plane Ever Made
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip into Orbit
Newsweek:
Apollo 16 Facts: What Happened During NASA's Moon-Landing Mission
Newsweek:
Apollo 13 Timeline: Follow Key Moments of Failed NASA Mission to the Moon
Houston Chronicle:
Remembering one of the funniest conversations to ever happen in space, 48 years ago this week
New Atlas:
Wernher von Braun's 1950's "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!" archive up for auction
April 19, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's planet-hunting TESS launched by SpaceX Falcon 9
Space News:
Falcon 9 launches NASA exoplanet hunter
Spaceflight Now:
All-sky surveyor launched from Cape Canaveral on the hunt for exoplanets
Space News:
Proton launches Russian defense comms satellite
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket Lab postpones first commercial launch after issue during fueling test
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars impact crater or supervolcano?
Outer Places:
New Evidence Points to Mars' Two Moons Forming From a Massive Asteroid Impact
Popular Mechanics:
The Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend. Here's How to Watch It.
April 18, 2018
Space.com:
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Try to Land a Rocket with a 'Giant Party Balloon'
Space.com:
NASA's Got a Plan for a 'Galactic Positioning System' to Save Astronauts Lost in Space
Space News:
China reveals cause of Long March 5 failure; lunar sample mission to follow return-to-flight
Space News:
Stratolaunch planning first aircraft flight this summer
Popular Science:
These diamonds are tiny, flawed, and may come from a long-lost planet
April 17, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle:
Asteroid the size of a football field whizzes alarmingly close by Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite delayed to Wednesday
Space.com:
Launch of NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Delayed by Rocket Issue
Spaceflight Insider:
Russia to launch Blagovest 12L military comsat April 18
Space.com:
Life on Venus? Why It's Not an Absurd Thought
April 16, 2018
KVOA-TV:
A surprise asteroid came "relatively" close to the Earth today
Space.com:
All Systems 'Go' For Launch of NASA Exoplanet Mission Monday
Space.com:
How NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope Will Find Habitable Worlds
Space.com:
Atlas V Rocket Launches US Military Satellite and Experimental Spacecraft Into Orbit
Space News:
NASA may extend space station missions to address potential commercial crew delays
Forbes:
Alien Signals We Discover Could Be The Echoes Of Dead Worlds
WEEKEND EDITION: April 14, 2018 through April 15, 2018
Scientific American:
The Difficult Birth of the "Many Worlds" Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
NBC News:
What is relativity? Einstein's mind-bending theory explained
Nature:
How gravitational waves could solve some of the Universe's deepest mysteries
Forbes:
The Tale Of A 1986 Experiment That Proved Einstein Wrong
Quanta:
Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds
Wired:
Catching up With Pepper, the Surprisingly Helpful Humanoid Robot
Inverse:
Real 'Gundam'-Like Robot is So Huge It Can't Fit Through the Factory Door
How Stuff Works:
The First 'Killer Robot' Was Around Back in 1979
Forbes:
An Enormous Crack Just Opened Up In Africa, Evidence Africa Is Literally Splitting In Two
Forbes:
Some Of The Science Behind The Ridiculous Movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' Is Now Coming True
Forbes:
Is Civilization Ready For The Eruption Of The Next Supervolcano?
Popular Mechanics:
Newfound Marine Fossil May Be From the Largest Creature That Ever Lived
Forbes:
Massive Dinosaur Footprints Discovered In Plain Sight On Scottish Isle
Newsweek:
Dinosaur 'Menu' Reveals How so Many Fearsome Predators Coexisted 100 Million Years Ago
Forbes:
Falcon Attack: How Peregrine Falcons Maneuver At Nearly 225 MPH
Forbes:
Parts Of Stonehenge Were In Place Long Before Humans, Archaeologists Find
Smithsonian Magazine:
Large Cache of Texts May Offer Insight Into One of Africa's Oldest Written Languages
The History Blog:
Painting by Dutch master found in Iowa gallery closet
The Conversation:
The day bananas made their British debut
The Conversation:
How cricket got its reputation for fair play
Flashbak:
The Real Wild Bill Hickok versus the Hollywood Version
Forbes:
The Discovery Of The Great Rift Valley, Where Africa Is Splitting In Two
Smithsonian Magazine:
When "Bricklayer Bill" Won the 1917 Boston Marathon, It Was a Victory For All Irish Americans
History.com:
The Daring Deep Sea Divers Who Helped Crack WWI German Codes
Flashbak:
Jakob Tuggener's Sensational Photos Of Weapons Factories In Neutral Switzerland
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Story of Brownie Wise, the Ingenious Marketer Behind the Tupperware Party
History.com:
11 Things You Didn't Know About '2001: A Space Odyssey'
April 13, 2018
ABC Australia:
Australia's Nazi rockets: How German V-2 flying bombs made their way Down Under
Cincinnati Enquirer:
59 years ago today, the world met the Mercury 7. Ohio was there, too.
San Diego Union-Tribune:
From the Archives April 12, 1961: First Spaceman Orbits Earth
BBC History Extra:
Yuri Gagarin: 8 things you (probably) didn't know about the first man in space
Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, still celebrated 57 years later (photos)
WTTW - PBS Chicago:
Apollo 8 Astronauts Recount Historic Mission at 'Rocket Men' Book Launch
Popular Science:
Is a hot dog a sandwich? The Apollo 13 astronauts had some thoughts
April 12, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX rocket test-fired at Cape Canaveral for NASA telescope launch
Spaceflight Insider:
InSight lander nearly ready for journey to Mars
Universe Today:
Zoom In, and In, and In! on this Amazing Falcon 9 Photo by Brady Kenniston
Outer Places:
NASA Releases an Impressive New Video Showing a 4K Tour of the Moon
Astrobiology Magazine:
A cosmic gorilla effect could blind the detection of aliens
April 11, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
NASA's Next Great Planet Hunter Has Arrived
Space News:
SpaceX proposes to conduct Dragon splashdowns in Gulf of Mexico
Spaceflight Insider:
China conducts surprise launch of Long March 4C rocket, lofts four satellites into space
Outer Places:
Large 'Hole' in The Sun Will Cause a Geomagnetic Storm and Flashier Auroras
Popular Mechanics:
The Rocket Fuel Rivalry Shaping the Future of Spaceflight
April 10, 2018
Nine Network Australia:
Westall flying saucer: One of Australia's baffling mysteries unsolved 52 years on
Spaceflight Now:
NASA's InSight lander inside one month to launch toward Mars
Space.com:
Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 200 Days in Orbit
Spaceflight Now:
Investigation into Zuma failure reportedly lays blame on Northrop Grumman
Outer Places:
Northrop Grumman is Blamed For The Disappearance of Mysterious Government 'Zuma' Satellite
Space News:
NASA studying sensor issue with Parker Solar Probe
Outer Places:
NASA's First Mission to The Sun is Entering Its Final Preparations Before Launch
Spaceflight Now:
NASA is counting on long-lived Mars orbiter lasting another decade
April 9, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Virgin Galactic completes first rocket-powered test flight since 2014
Spaceflight Now:
Boeing proposes extending test flight of commercial crew capsule
Space News:
NASA studies extending Boeing commercial crew test flight to support ISS
Spaceflight Now:
Saturn's clouds run deep, rings may rain organics
Spaceflight Now:
Video: SpaceShipTwo rocket plane soars on supersonic test flight
WEEKEND EDITION: April 7, 2018 through April 8, 2018
Outer Places:
Harvard Physicists Say They've Calculated the Exact Day the Universe Will End
Popular Science:
The big bang got its name from a man who thought the theory was total nonsense
IEEE Spectrum:
Helping Robots Express Themselves When They Fail
IEEE Spectrum:
Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox
Daily Mail:
Earth had water BEFORE the giant impact that created the moon: Breakthrough study suggests life may be more widespread in the universe than thought
New Atlas:
For sale: 28-ft-long, 155 million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur skeleton
Daily Mail:
Scientists unearth fossils of 30 FOOT LONG 'badass' dinosaur with serrated teeth and 'wickedly hooked claws' that terrorized Patagonia 85 million years ago
Popular Mechanics:
"One in a Million" Young T. Rex Fossil Found in Montana
Popular Mechanics:
An Ancient Lizard Had Four Eyes But We Don't Know Why
JStor:
The Platypus is Even Weirder Than You Thought
Stuff NZ:
13,000-year-old human footprints found on Canadian island
The History Blog:
Hatshepsut relief identified at Swansea University
Daily Mail:
Body of fearsome Chinese warlord Cao Cao is finally found in a 1,800-year-old Han Dynasty tomb despite ancient efforts to hide the site
Outer Places:
New Analysis of a Crystal Viking 'Sunstone' Shows It Could Accurately Navigate the Oceans
JStor:
The French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass
BBC History Extra:
Sisters of mercy: the Biddenden Maids
History.com:
Viking Village With 'Graffiti' Found in Dublin
BBC History Extra:
Arthur, Catherine and Henry: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy
The History Blog:
University of Aberdeen painting is by Canaletto
The History Blog:
Buy your own hoard of (shady) nickels
Smithsonian Magazine:
Where to See the Fabled Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs
Air & Space Magazine:
The Lies of Elmo Pickerill
History.com:
These Women Taught Depression-Era Americans to Use Electricity
Smithsonian Magazine:
Journalist Virginia Irwin Broke Barriers When She Reported From Berlin at the End of WWII
Air & Space Magazine:
The Black Christmas Disaster
History.com:
How Dolls Helped Win Brown v. Board of Education
The Conversation:
Much of what you think you know about Linda Brown - a central figure in Brown v. Board of Education - is wrong
History.com:
LBJ Announced He Wouldn't Run Again. Political Chaos Ensued
NorthJersey.com:
What's the one thing that '2001' got right in 1968?
April 6, 2018
The Aviationist:
Amazing Video Shows Ultra-Low Level Flying From The Cockpit Of A U.S. F-16. And Here's Why This Kind Of Training Is Still Important Today.
HistoryNet:
Night Raider
Daily Breeze:
South Bay History: Local aerospace industry launched the fastest plane ever built
Business Insider:
NASA's future spacesuits could revolutionize how astronauts explore the solar system
Space.com:
Gemini Program: Two-Man Prep for Moon Missions
AV Geekery:
NASA Apollo 6 Paved America's Pathway to the Moon 50 years ago
The Conversation:
60 years in orbit for 'grapefruit satellite' - the oldest human object in space
Atlas Obscura:
GIFs in Space!
April 5, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Dragon cargo capsule reaches space station for second time
Spaceflight Insider:
CRS-14 Dragon berths with International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Gallery: Used CRS-14 Dragon capsule flies atop used Falcon 9 rocket
Universe Today:
NASA Simulates Their Orion Abort System. Now That Would be a Crazy Ride
Outer Places:
Former Nuclear Missile Motor Will Find a New Home in NASA's Orion Spacecraft
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA is Ready to Study the Heart of Mars
April 4, 2018
CBC:
Mint's newest coin showcases famous Falcon Lake UFO encounter in Manitoba
Denison Herald Democrat:
DONNA HUNT: Local UFO sightings date back 140 years
Popular Mechanics:
NASA Picks Lockheed Martin to Make Low-Boom Supersonic X-Plane
Popular Mechanics:
Prototype Satellite Launched on SpaceX Rocket Will Try to Clean Up Space Junk
Space News:
Proton, Soyuz engine reinspections complete, Roscosmos says
Space News:
NOAA explains restriction on SpaceX launch webcast
Spaceflight Now:
ISRO loses contact with new communications satellite
Outer Places:
NASA and ESA Test Their High-Tech Mars Parachutes For Upcoming Martian Missions
Outer Places:
The Harsh Clouds of Venus Could Still Support Unique Kinds of Alien Life
Astrobiology Magazine:
Comet Provides Rare Chance To Study Solar System's Origins
Outer Places:
Astronomers Just Found the Most Distant Star Ever Observed: A Giant Blue 'Sun' 9 Billion Light-Years Away
April 3, 2018
Daily Mail:
Chinese space station smashes to Earth at 17,000mph off the coast of Tahiti: Nine-ton installation the size of a school bus comes crashing into the atmosphere in a huge fireball and just misses tropical paradise
Spaceflight Now:
Mysterious Russian reconnaissance satellite successfully launched
Space News:
SpaceX launches reused Dragon to ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX CRS-14 Dragon heading toward ISS after successful Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now:
Two new satellites join China's Beidou navigation fleet
Spaceflight Insider:
Long March 4C orbits trio of Gaofen-1 Earth-observing satellites
Spaceflight Now:
India tests upgraded engine tech in successful communications satellite launch
April 2, 2018
Toledo Blade:
Close encounters of the Toledo kind: Fravor pursued UFO in 2004
Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Reward offered for return of stolen UFO alien grave marker in Texas
CBC:
Sky-watcher catches big, bright and loud fireball near Anzac on video
New York Times:
China's Space Station Has Finally Fallen Back to Earth
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers accomplish all objectives in six-hour excursion
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX CRS-14 mission all set for science
Space.com:
Liftoff! Used SpaceX Rocket Launches 10 Iridium Satellites into Orbit
Space News:
Falcon 9 deploys Iridium satellites after SpaceX ends video citing NOAA's orders
Daily Mail:
SpaceX's $6 million nose cone misses the firm's giant ship-mounted 'catcher's mitt' and CRASHES into the ocean in 'high speed' impact after successful Falcon 9 launch
WEEKEND EDITION: March 31, 2018 through April 1, 2018
WREG-TV:
Visiting Memphis 50 years after King's assassination
Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
In Memphis, walking in MLK's footsteps
Chicago Tribune:
The tense months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination
Chicago Tribune/Beacon News:
'Angry one minute ... full of sorrow the next': Aurora area residents remember MLK assassination
Lexington Herald-Leader:
50 years ago: How a murder and a speech were wake-up calls for segregated Lexington.
Reuters:
Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out'
The Conversation:
Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood
The Atlantic:
Martin Luther King Jr. Changed a Nation in Only 13 Years
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Charlotte News & Observer:
The day he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. was supposed to be in North Carolina
Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Chance meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. forever changed members of college choir
Minnesota Public Radio:
The Memphis sanitation workers strike: King's last cause for economic justice
Newsy:
The Man In The Middle Of The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Leading up to 6:01: The last 32 hours of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Birmingham News:
Alabama's tragic ties to Martin Luther King's murder
BBC News:
Did Martin Luther King predict his own death?
Daily Mail:
A shot rings out from a bathroom window and Martin Luther King lies dying - sparking race riots across the U.S. within hours: A minute by haunting minute on the assassination that scarred America's soul
USA Today:
For those who were at the Lorraine Motel, what does it mean to be a witness to martyrdom?
USA Today:
The Witness: Clara Ester, the Lorraine Motel and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Hechinger Report:
A Devastating Moment: Teachers and students who lived through it recall Martin Luther King's assassination
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Atlanta's 4-mile goodbye to King
New York Times:
Dr. King's Complex Relationship With the Camera
The Australian:
The dream lives on
March 30, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Lockheed Martin Unveils MQ-25 'Stingray' Tanker Drone Design for the Navy
Flight Global:
Lockheed's Skunk Works reveals missing link in secret UAV history
Daily Mail:
Putin it in your back garden? Soviet Cold War missile which could fly at four times the speed of sound is bought for £15,600 at auction
Air & Space Magazine:
Why Was the Discovery of the Jet Stream Mostly Ignored?
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Space Ace
East Bay Times:
Alameda man trained astronauts in NASA's Golden Age of space travel
March 29, 2018
KIRO:
Bonney Lake crash and UFO mystery reveal hidden history
Toledo Blade:
Toledo native recalls close encounter with UFO
Space.com:
Telescope Spots Doomed Chinese Space Station (Photo)
Popular Mechanics:
Why It's So Dang Hard to Predict Where Tiangong-1 Will Come Down
Daily Mail:
All systems FLOW! Awesome moment 450,000 gallons of water burst into the sky during temperature control test at NASA's JFK Space Center
Spaceflight Insider:
Era ends as Kepler planet hunting satellite runs out of fuel
Outer Places:
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Created a Hole In Earth's Atmosphere During a Launch
Space.com:
Earth Likely Had Water Before Moon-Forming Smashup
Outer Places:
NASA's InSight Lander Will Look Under the Surface of Mars For the First Time
Space.com:
Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Never Should Have Left Home, Theories Say
Outer Places:
Astronomers Say Newfound Metal Planet as Dense as Mercury May Finally Reveal How Our Solar System Formed
March 28, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Ground equipment problem slips next Falcon 9 launch to Friday
Outer Places:
NASA's James Webb Telescope is Delayed Yet Again After Failing Its Latest Tests
Spaceflight Now:
Webb telescope's launch delayed until 2020
Outer Places:
Scientists Say Strange 'Meridianiite' Crystals Have Finally Solved the Mystery of Mars' Missing Oceans and Alien Life
Outer Places:
Astronomers Say They've Found a Brown Dwarf With Its Own Planet for the First Time in History
March 27, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Tiangong-1 to fall to Earth over Easter weekend
Universe Today:
China is Working on a Rocket as Powerful as the Saturn V, Could Launch by 2030
Outer Places:
NASA Has No Plans To Purchase Any Falcon Heavy Rockets From SpaceX
New Atlas:
Prototype emergency spacesuits face first splashdown tests
Universe Today:
Volcanoes on Mars Helped Form its Early Oceans
Outer Places:
New 'Isotopic Evolution' Theory Finally Explains Why Planets Are All So Different in the Solar System
March 26, 2018
Hertfordshire Mercury:
The night a WW2 RAF navigator was left puzzled by a UFO over Hertfordshire
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz spacecraft with crew of three docks with space station
Spaceflight Insider:
International Space Station crew size doubles with Soyuz MS-08 docking
Spaceflight Now:
Atlas 5 rocket assembled for first Mars mission launch from Vandenberg
Outer Places:
Rocket Lab's Giant Space Disco Ball 'Humanity Star' Incinerated as It Fell Back to Earth Ahead of Schedule
Outer Places:
Curiosity Rover Celebrates Its 2000th Martian Day on the Red Planet
Universe Today:
70,000 Years Ago a Nearby Star Messed With the Orbits Of Comets and Asteroids in our Solar System
WEEKEND EDITION: March 24, 2018 through March 25, 2018
Phys.org:
The universe is a hologram and other mind-blowing theories in theoretical physics
Forbes:
This Is Why Our Universe Didn't Collapse Into A Black Hole
Scientific American:
Quantum Physicists Double the "Bandwidth" of the Universe
Forbes:
Ask Ethan: Where Is The Line Between Mathematics And Physics?
Outer Places:
Bipedal Robot Gets Around With Jet-Powered Feet
Wired:
Watch a Robot 'Hen' Adopt a Flock of Chicks
Daily Mail:
Earth's oxygen burst into production 'like a FIREHOSE' 2.3 billion years ago in a rapid event that transformed the planet into a habitable world
National Geographic:
Five New Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica
Daily Nation:
Kenya is splitting, and this rift at Suswa is just the beginning
The Conversation:
The dinosaur that got away: how we diagnosed a 200-million-year-old infected predator bite
BBC News:
Triceratops may have had horns to attract mates
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
Scientific journal publishes research on dinosaur type discovered in Arkansas
National Geographic:
Why Ravens and Crows Are Earth's Smartest Birds
The History Blog:
2,200-year-old liquor found in Chinese tomb
History.com:
This 14th-Century African Emperor Remains the Richest Person in History
BBC History Extra:
11 things you (probably) didn't know about Anne Boleyn
Atlas Obscura:
375 Years Later, English Schoolchildren Still Learn About a Magic Propaganda Dog
The History Blog:
Keen-eyed Hearst Castle guides spot key to painting's long-lost author
The History Blog:
Ten Auspicious Landscapes of Taishan: a Qing materpiece rediscovered
JStor:
Charles Knowlton, The Father of American Birth Control
History.com:
The Forgotten Fire That Leveled New York
The Conversation:
What really killed Prince Albert?
Daily Mail:
The Baptist minister's son, 14, who turned into the Wild West's most notorious outlaw: Earliest known photograph of Jesse James is bought for $10 on eBay by collector who is set to sell it for thousands
The History Blog:
Album with earliest Harriet Tubman picture digitized
Smithsonian Magazine:
Ruth McGinnis: The Queen of Billiards
Atlas Obscura:
The Student Yearbooks of a Japanese-American Detention Camp
BBC History Extra:
5 myths of the Second World War's Great Escape
Timeline:
Jackie Robinson was once humiliated and court-martialed for sitting next to a black woman people thought was white
The Aviationist:
73 Years Ago Today: The Deadliest Air Raid in History, Operation Meetinghouse.
History.com:
Inside the Rise and Fall of Toys 'R' Us
History.com:
How the Black Panthers Inspired California's Strict Gun Laws
Timeline:
This woman was held hostage and drugged because she knew too much about Watergate
The Conversation:
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 38 years ago. Soon he'll become El Salvador's first saint
New Atlas:
Gallery: Final and lasting impressions from the 2018 Geneva Motor Show
Flashbak:
Ads From the 1964 Earls Court Motor Show Catalogue
March 23, 2018
Jalopnik:
There's Now A Haynes Repair Manual For The F-14 Tomcat
The Drive:
This Could Be Your Only Chance To Buy A Flyable Phantom Fighter Jet
HistoryNet:
Supersonic Gamble
Gizmodo:
Here's What It Was Like To Fly On The Soviet Concorde
Inquisitr:
NASA Historian Says Estimated Amount Of Trash On Moon Sounds Accurate
Air & Space Magazine:
Betting on the Moon
March 22, 2018
National Geographic Australia:
The UFO Sighting On Kangaroo Island
New York Magazine:
A Sociologist Unpacks Our Fixation With Aliens
Spaceflight Insider:
Soyuz MS-08 trio lights up Kazakh sky to begin 2-day trek to ISS
Space.com:
Soyuz Rocket Launches US-Russian Crew to Space Station
Popular Mechanics:
China Working on a New Heavy-Lift Rocket as Powerful as Saturn V
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars' oceans formed early, possibly aided by massive volcanic eruptions
San Jose Mercuiry News:
There's a chance an asteroid will hit us in 2135, but NASA has a plan
Outer Places:
A Passing Star Shook Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
March 21, 2018
New York Magazine:
Reasons to Believe
Artsy:
These Drawings Show How Pop Culture Has Changed the Way We See UFOs
Space News:
Alaskan spaceport to host secretive commercial launch
Spaceflight Now:
ULA touts new Vulcan rocket in competition with SpaceX
Spaceflight Insider:
Astrobotic ready to become delivery service to the Moon
Seeker:
These Are the New Experiments Heading to the International Space Station
Space News:
NASA to allow nuclear power systems for next Discovery mission
March 20, 2018
Outer Places:
ESA Announces When and Where China's Rogue Space Station Will Crash to Earth
Space News:
NASA investigation linked 2015 Falcon 9 failure to design error
Outer Places:
NASA Might Send a Flying Drone to Mars Alongside New Rover
Outer Places:
The Rare Metals on Mars Came From a Giant Collision
Outer Places:
'Oumuamua Origin Discovered: Asteroid Came From Tatooine-Like Binary Star System
March 19, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Fourth satellite in new Chinese spy fleet successfully launched
Daily Mail:
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope only has a few months left to live: Agency says the planet-hunting spacecraft is running out of fuel after nine years in space
Outer Places:
Russian Scientists Are Testing Lasers to Blow Up Deadly Asteroids
Forbes:
Space Is Full Of Planets, And Most Of Them Don't Even Have Stars
Popular Mechanics:
All Galaxies Take a Billion Years to Rotate. Which Is Really Cool, and Totally Weird.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
March 17, 2018 through March 18, 2018
Forbes:
The Theory Of Everything: Remembering Stephen Hawking's Greatest Contribution
Forbes:
We Still Don't Understand Why Time Only Flows Forward
The Conversation:
The search for the value of pi
Popular Mechanics:
The Hilarious (and Terrifying?) Ways Algorithms Have Outsmarted Their Creators
Daily Mail:
All the better to scare you with: Japanese farmers use bizarre robotic WOLVES that howl when approached to ward off wild boars
Outer Places:
Rare Crystallized Water is Discovered Inside a Super-Deep Diamond
Live Science:
Greenland Is Literally Cracking Apart and Flooding the World
Popular Mechanics:
Listen to the First Recording of 'Volcanic Thunder'
Daily Mail:
Half a BILLION-year-old brains of terrifying sea monsters related to today's spiders and insects are found perfectly preserved in Greenland
The Guardian:
Burning coal may have caused Earth's worst mass extinction
Atlas Obscura:
Found: Fossilized Pterodactyls With 30-Foot Wingspans
The Guardian:
Archaeopteryx 'flew in bursts like a pheasant', scientists say
Daily Mail:
Complex human cultures are OLDER than thought, according to ancient pigments and 320,000-year-old stone tools found in Kenya
Daily Mail:
Modern humans interbred with mysterious Denisovans at least TWICE after leaving Africa 200,000 years ago (and millions of people today still have their DNA)
History.com:
Julius Caesar's Forgotten Assassin
Atlas Obscura:
The Quest to Find the Lost Column of Venice
BBC History Extra:
The Duke of Cumberland and his valet: a bloody tale of attempted murder
History.com:
200 Years Ago, 'Frankenstein' Was Born During a Ghastly Vacation
Atlas Obscura:
Thomas Edison Was an Early Adopter of the Word 'Bug'
History.com:
Teddy Roosevelt's Bold (But Doomed) Battle to Change American Spelling
Atlas Obscura:
Remembering the Coral Route and Its Luxurious Flying Boats
The Conversation:
The man responsible for making March Madness the moneymaking bonanza it is today
BBC History Extra:
Ruth Ellis and the hanging that rocked a nation
History.com:
Why MLK Encouraged 225,000 Chicago Kids to Cut Class in 1963
History.com:
How Freedom Rider Diane Nash Risked Her Life to Desegregate the South
The Guardian:
How we made 2001: A Space Odyssey
Popular Mechanics:
Whatever Happened to the V-Chip?
The Conversation:
How China is rebooting retail
The Conversation:
100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures
The Conversation:
The dark side of daylight saving time
Popular Mechanics:
Watch These Cool GIFs Restore Ancient Ruins to Their Former Glory
Popular Mechanics:
The Ides of March and 24 Other Superstitions Explained
The Conversation:
10 things to know about the real St. Patrick
March 16, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Largest Jet Engine in the World Takes First Flight
Popular Mechanics:
Ukraine Is Building a Spaceplane for...Saudi Arabia?
Spaceflight History:
Around the Moon in 80 Hours (1958)
Spaceflight History:
Dreaming a Different Apollo, Part Seven: Hypersonic NASA
Popular Mechanics:
The Owner's Guide To Your New Space Station
March 15, 2018
NewsHub NZ:
Kaikoura UFO mystery still flummoxing locals 40 years on
Spaceflight Now:
Musk: Atmospheric tests of interplanetary spaceship could happen next year
Spaceflight Now:
NASA releases summary of investigation into SpaceX's 2015 launch failure
Outer Places:
New Horizons Space Probe Will Visit the Extremely Distant 'Ultima Thule'
Astronomy Magazine:
Simulations show how Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko likely formed
Outer Places:
Hubble Tracks Down a 'Relic Galaxy' Near the Milky Way
March 14, 2018
Drive -- The War Zone:
Learjet And Airbus Had Strange Encounter With Mysterious Craft Over Arizona
Mirage News:
Mysterious loud boom shakes Oklahoma, locals report green and orange flashes
KOCO TV:
National Weather Service: Loud 'boom' could have been 'breaking up of a meteor'
Daily Mail:
Spot the space station! Astronomer captures image of China's out-of-control Tiangong-1 streaking across the sky as experts scramble to figure out where it will land
Outer Places:
SpaceX Mars Rocket Will Begin Test Flights as Early as 2019
Spaceflight Insider:
Elon Musk says 1st flight of SpaceX's Mars spaceship may happen in 2019
Outer Places:
Secrets Behind Water on the Moon Revealed in Lunar Creation Simulation
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA releases 360-degree video of InSight Mars lander test lab
March 13, 2018
Fairfield Citizen:
65th anniversary of UFO event Thursday
News.com Australia:
What caused one of the world's largest ever UFO sightings?
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's most recent launch carried a secret military-funded experiment
Space News:
Mysteries surrounding July 14 Soyuz flight solved? Not quite.
Outer Places:
Super-Earth With Liquid Water Found With 14 Other New Planets Orbiting Cool Dwarf Stars
March 12, 2018
News.com Australia:
Footage of mysterious UFO above ocean stuns military personnel
IEEE Spectrum:
FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
Outer Places:
NASA is Designing an Asteroid-Destroying Spacecraft Named 'HAMMER'
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA Juno Findings - Jupiter's Jet-Streams Are Unearthly
Astrobiology Magazine:
Comet Chury formed by a catastrophic collision
WEEKEND EDITION: March 10, 2018 through March 11, 2018
Gizmodo:
Fundamental Equation of Quantum Physics Also Describes Rings and Disks in Space
Forbes:
This Experiment Famously Tried To Disprove Relativity. Here's What Went Wrong
CNBC:
This 13-foot robot cost over $100 million to develop and looks like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie
Daily Mail:
Blink and you'll miss it! Watch the jaw-dropping moment a robot solves a Rubik's Cube in .38 seconds, shattering the world record
Astrobiology Magazine:
Modern volcanism tied to events occurring soon after Earth's birth
Daily Mail:
Newly-found 'super-deep diamond' in Africa contains a rare Earth mineral never seen before on our planet
Forbes:
Scientists May Have Found The Birthplace Of Magnetic Field Reversals
Daily Mail:
Burned clay Bantu huts from 1,000 years ago have revealed how southern Africa's magnetic field has become so weak that it's dangerous for satellites to enter it
Ars Technica:
African rainforests vanished for 600 years, then bounced back - why?
Stuff NZ:
Fossils of surprisingly tiny flightless Central Otago birds present a mystery
Daily Mail:
Family of four mammoth skeletons including a rare 1-year-old infant goes up for sale AGAIN after first auction fails to meet £400,000 price tag
Forbes:
Why Do Canadian Geese Fly At Night?
National Geographic:
Discovering Gilgamesh, the World's First Action Hero
BBC History Extra:
8 things you (probably) didn't know about Tutankhamun
The History Blog:
Rome Metro construction reveals centurion's villa
National Geographic:
Zenobia, the Rebel Queen Who Took On Rome
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rubens' Sprawling Castle in the Belgian Countryside Is on the Market
Forbes:
The All Saints' Day Earthquake That Changed The World
The History Blog:
Bought for $20, little teapot with big history sells huge
The History Blog:
Slavery Museum acquires painting of abolition icon
HistoryNet:
Alexander Hamilton's Death: Suicide or Lost Shot
JStor:
How the Thames Tunnel Revealed London's Class Divide
HistoryNet:
Conversation Piece: J.E.B. The Inventor
HistoryNet:
The War In Their Words: I Do Not Think of Peace
HistoryNet:
The New Art of War: General Rains' 'villainously concealed' mines
History.com:
Why the Civil War Actually Ended 16 Months After Lee Surrendered
HistoryNet:
Mary Mann Hamilton: Delta Pioneer Woman
HistoryNet:
Longstreet's Second Lady
HistoryNet:
Meade in Allegory: The general's Washington, D.C., memorial took years to complete
Smithsonian Magazine:
Long-Lost Monet, Sent Away for Safekeeping Before WWII, Found in Louvre Storage
Timeline:
She was the first woman senator. Her term lasted exactly a day
HistoryNet:
Classic Dispatches: Siege Mentality
HistoryNet:
Hirano's Zero
Popular Mechanics:
Long-Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier Found at Last
HistoryNet:
Last Train Home
HistoryNet:
Who Shot Down Major Davis?
Popular Mechanics:
Russia Introduces Two New Nightmare Missiles
New Atlas:
Four "million-dollar barnfinds" go to auction this week
New Atlas:
At a glance: Amelia Island Auctions - every car in order of estimate
March 9, 2018
The Atlantic:
New Mexico's Sad Bet on Space Exploration
Popular Mechanics:
Now We Know Where the B-21 Secret Stealth Bomber Will Be Tested
Popular Mechanics:
China Is Building a Spaceplane of Its Own
The Aviationist:
This Is What The Northern Lights Look Like From Inside a U-2 "Dragon Lady" Spyplane
Universe Today:
Astronaut Scott Tingle Was Able To Control A Ground-Based Robot... From Space.
Spaceflight History:
Creation of an Artificial Lunar Atmosphere (1974)
Toronto Star:
Avro Arrow sheet metal worker was there the day the project died in 1959
March 8, 2018
Vice:
Government Documents Reveal Canada Took UFOs Seriously
BGR:
A skyscraper-sized asteroid just cruised by Earth - watch it fly by in this video
Seattle Times:
Loud boom, flash in sky over Grays Harbor County jolt Western Washington
RT:
Night turned into day: Dazzling 'meteor' blazes across sky in Russian Urals (VIDEOS)
Spaceflight Now:
Europe's ExoMars orbiter nears start of methane-sniffing science mission
Popular Science:
Venus may once have been habitable. Now it can tell us if other worlds might be as well.
Outer Places:
Jupiter's Storms Extend Deep Into the Planet's Insides
SyFy Wire:
An asteroid is about to embark on a very long voyage to interstellar space
March 7, 2018
Outer Places:
Secret Pentagon UFO Program 'Still Exists' and It's Investigating 'Significant Pilot Encounters'
Cumbria Mail:
Meteor in sky over South Cumbria captured on dashcam footage
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX launches 50th Falcon 9, orbits bus-sized Hispasat 30W-6
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz launch from French Guiana delayed to Friday
Spaceflight Insider:
Mobile launcher gets Orion crew access arm, inches closer to completion
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with GOES-S weather satellite
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA telescopes discover water-rich exoplanet atmosphere
Forbes:
Why Do All The Planets Orbit In The Same Plane?
Popular Mechanics:
Falcon Heavy for the Outer Solar System
March 6, 2018
Newsweek:
2017 VR12: Asteroid That Could Be Bigger Than Empire State Building Is About to Pass by Earth
The Guardian:
China's Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks
Astrobiology Magazine:
Curiosity Tests a New Way to Drill on Mars
Forbes:
Sorry, Super-Earth Fans, There Are Only Three Classes Of Planet
Universe Today:
Bacteria Surviving On Musk's Tesla Are Either A Bio-threat Or A Backup Copy Of Life On Earth
March 5, 2018
C|Net:
See the bus-size asteroid caught buzzing past Earth
Newcastle Herald:
A meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle
WKOW-TV:
Meteor seen in sky over Madison area Wednesday night
Racine County Eye:
Meteor a little too close for comfort for Racine man
Ars Technica:
The Falcon 9 rocket may reach 50 launches on Tuesday
Spaceflight Now:
InSight lander flown to California for final launch preps
Spaceflight Now:
Rideshare mission for U.S. military confirmed as second Falcon Heavy launch
Daily Mail:
Moon was created out of a giant 'dust doughnut' after Earth collided with a baby planet 4.5 BILLION years ago
Live Science:
Earth Was Vaporized 4.5 Billion Years Ago, and (Maybe) That's Why We Have a Moon
Forbes:
New Theory On Moon Formation Explained [Infographic]
Daily Mail:
First light in the universe: Astronomers find signs of early stars that formed 180 million years after the Big Bang in 'revolutionary' breakthrough
WEEKEND EDITION: March 3, 2018 through March 4, 2018
Daily Mail:
Falling into a black hole could wipe out your past and give you an unlimited number of futures
Popular Mechanics:
AI Algorithms Are Generating Videos Out of Thin Air
Daily Mail:
Meet the cyber SLUG: Scientists develop virtual sea creature that is self-aware and behaves like predators on the ocean floor
Stuff NZ:
Really extreme' global weather event leaves scientists aghast
Daily Mail:
Norway is spending $13 million to upgrade 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault as threat of climate change grows
BBC History Extra:
6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history
Daily Mail:
Jurassic rock that was kept in storage for 35 years is cracked open by a salesman, 45, clearing up his home to reveal 180 million-year-old ammonite fossils worth more than £2,000
Gizmodo:
Ancient Elephants and Mastodons Were Totally Down With Inter-Species Boning
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rare Mammoth Tracks Reveal an Intimate Portrait of Herd Life
Daily Mail:
Mysterious Greenland sharks that can live for more than 500 YEARS and are the 'oldest living vertebrates' are captured in incredibly rare footage
Daily Mail:
Previously unknown 'super colony' of 1.5 MILLION penguins in Antarctica's remote Danger Islands is discovered from space
JStor:
The Unexpected Result of Australia's Dingo Fence
Daily Mail:
Giant 300,000-year-old hand axes that may have been used to cut up prey by a mystery ancestor are uncovered in Spain
Daily Mail:
A glimpse into the last 15,000 years in Aberdeen: Roman bread ovens, Stone Age pits and Bronze Age Beaker pots are found during work on a new bypass
Daily Mail:
History of tattooing is rewritten after world's earliest figurative inkings are found on 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies in the British Museum
BBC History Extra:
6 things you (probably) didn't know about animals in ancient Rome
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists in Egypt unearth the head and chest of a statue of Ramses II just days after sun ceremony marking the ancient pharaoh's birthday
Jstor:
The Other Alexander the Great
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A 700-Year-Old Ring Adorned with St. Nicholas
Smithsonian Magazine:
Richard III's Cornwall accounts for fiscal year 1483 found in 1930s royal souvenir trinket box
JStor:
How Alexander Pushkin Was Inspired By His African Heritage
History.com:
How Napoleon Plotted One of History's Greatest Prison Breaks
JStor:
Why Verdi Wrote an Opera about Sex Work
Atlas Obscura:
How Photographs Printed on Paper Changed 19th-Century America
History.com:
Chasing the Myth of Confederate Gold
Smithsonian Magazine:
Stolen Degas Found in Luggage Compartment of French Bus
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Garfield Assassination Altered American History, But Is Woefully Forgotten Today
Air & Space Magazine:
The Dark Side of Glory
History Is Power:
Kansas imprisoned more than 5,000 women and girls for having STDs
History.com:
How Japan Took Control of Korea
Atlas Obscura:
The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin's Doomed Meteorologist
Timeline:
The black-versus-white basketball game that integrated the sport
JStor:
Why Paul Robeson Was Labelled a Psychopath
Jstor:
The End of American Film Censorship
JStor:
How Consumerism Sold Democracy to Postwar Germany
Daily Mail:
Is this what doomsday will look like? Shocking footage re-emerges of a test of the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US
Atlas Obscura:
Found: Details of Picasso's Plan for His Most Massive Work of Art
History.com:
Academy Award Winners Who Rejected Their Oscars
Atlas Obscura:
A Modern Controversy Over Ancient Homosexuality
Air & Space Magazine:
Tragedy Over Texas
Popular Mechanics:
The 50 Best New Board Games
March 2, 2018
The Aviationist:
Check Out These Amazing Photos Taken By A U-2 Pilot At The Edge Of Space
Air & Space Magazine:
The Crash That Doomed Henry Ford's Flying Car
Spaceflight History:
Creation of an Artificial Lunar Atmosphere (1974)
Ars Technica:
The Greatest Leap, part 6: After Apollo, NASA still searching for an encore
Popular Mechanics:
10 Rocket Launch Failures That Changed History
March 1, 2018
EarthSky:
This asteroid will pass closer than the moon on Friday
Outer Places:
Bus-Sized Asteroid Will Pass Closer Than the Moon This Week
Spaceflight Insider:
Space station trio returns to Earth after record-setting mission
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz spacecraft brings three station fliers home
Popular Mechanics:
A Homecoming in Photos: Two Astronauts and a Cosmonaut Return to Earth
Space News:
Falcon 9 launch to wait until after Atlas 5 mission
Spaceflight Insider:
What was a SpaceX Crew Dragon doing in Port Canaveral?
Popular Science:
Our closest neighboring star system sounds like a terrible place to live
February 28, 2018
New Atlas:
China's first space station set to re-enter atmosphere in April, but where exactly is anyone's guess
New Atlas:
European Mars orbiter completes 11-month aerobraking maneuver
Popular Mechanics:
NASA's Odyssey Captures Stunning Images of Mars' Moons
Popular Mechanics:
Stratolaunch Monster Plane Hits 40 Knots in Latest Taxi Test
February 27, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX postpones Falcon 9 launch over payload fairing concerns
Spaceflight Now:
Japanese spy satellite launch delayed by poor weather forecast
Daily Mail:
Cimon, a floating robot that knows more than a thousand phrases, will join astronauts aboard the International Space Station this year
Spaceflight Insider:
How is NASA's InSight Mars lander different from the Phoenix Mars lander?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Venus Returns to the Dusk Sky
Popular Science:
Meet the SpaceX ships that will never go to space
February 26, 2018
ABC Australia:
South Australia's X-Files: Curious Adelaide cracks open our most mysterious UFO cases
News.com Australia:
Asteroid 2018 DU is the 17th known to pass between the Earth and Moon so far this year
WHNT-TV:
Monday night's fireball over South Carolina seen as far away as Alabama!
Space News:
SpaceX launches pair of its demo internet satellites with Spanish radar satellite
Space News:
Bad coordinates led Ariane 5 launch astray, investigators conclude
Spaceflight Insider:
Robonaut2 returning to Earth later this year
Space News:
NASA Mars exploration efforts turn to operating existing missions and planning sample return
Astrobiology Magazine:
Seven Ways Mars InSight is Different
Astrobiology Magazine:
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Reveal Secrets of the Red Planet
Astrobiology Magazine:
On Second Thought, the Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile
WEEKEND EDITION: February 24, 2018 through February 25, 2018
Forbes:
If The Universe Is 13.8 Billion Years Old, How Can We See 46 Billion Light Years Away?
Forbes:
Black Holes Must Have Singularities, Says Einstein's Relativity
Phys.org:
Some black holes erase your past
Daily Beast:
Are We Closer to Finding a Fifth Dimension?
Forbes:
The Four Scientific Meanings Of 'Nothing'
Popular Mechanics:
Boston Dynamics' Bot Will Not Go Quietly
New Atlas:
New firefighting robot gets put to the test
Science News:
New fossils are redefining what makes a dinosaur
Irish Times:
How colourful and feathery were the dinosaurs?
Sci-News:
New Research Sheds Light on Dinosaurs of 'Lost Landmass' of Appalachia
Stuff NZ:
Amber gives a glimpse of Gondwana's forest bugs
Atlas Obscura:
The Centuries-Old Mystery of How Florida Got Its Flamingos
The History Blog:
Oldest known cave art painted by Neanderthals
Daily Mail:
How the builders of Stonehenge 5,000 years ago were almost completely wiped out by mysterious 'Beaker people' from the continent whose blood runs in Brit veins to this day
Daily Mail:
Biblical prophet's tomb blown up by Isis reveals the inscribed remains of a once opulent palace belonging to 'the king of the world' who ruled Assyria 2,700 years ago
Live Science:
Is This Seal the Earliest Evidence of Biblical Prophet Isaiah?
Daily Mail:
Fragments of 2,600-year-old Nubian king statue adorned with hieroglyphics describing how he was 'beloved of a god' are found in a Nile River temple
Stuff NZ:
Scientists discover the secret to ancient Roman 'Gate to Hell'
The History Blog:
Only known Roman boxing gloves found at Vindolanda
Atlas Obscura:
The Africans Who Called Tudor England Home
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Fantastic Beasts of John James Audubon's Little-Known Book on Mammals
San Francisco Chronicle:
Incredible 19th century daguerreotypes show the faces of the Gold Rush
San Francisco Chronicle:
Album of stunning 1906 San Francisco earthquake photos up for auction
BBC History Extra:
5 tanks that changed the course of the First World War
Daily Mail:
The heroes of D-Day in colour: The actions of brave Allied troops who fought their way on to the beaches of Normandy are illustrated as never before
Daily Mail:
Revealed: Britain's secret team of expert forgers whose masterpieces were so good they could fool top Germans in World War Two - even creating a fake passport for Hitler
Atlas Obscura:
Rediscovering the Newsletter That Inspired a Generation of Comedians
History.com:
The 1960 Winter Olympics: Where Underdogs Ruled
Timeline:
Shootings, bombings, beatings, disappearances - welcome to 1964 Mississippi
Atlas Obscura:
The Art of Chinese Propaganda Posters
History.com:
The Revolution That Was 1968
History.com:
How the Black Power Protest at the 1968 Olympics Killed Careers
February 23, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
Russia, China Will Have Anti-Satellite Weapons "Within a Few Years"
The Aviationist:
Cockpit Video Shows F/A-18E Super Hornet Performing Case II Recovery With Low Visibility And Pitching Deck
The Aviationist:
Ten Years Ago Today The U.S. Air Force Lost Its First B-2 Stealth Bomber During Take Off From Guam. And Here Are Two Videos.
Popular Mechanics:
12 Monster Planes That Dominate the Skies
Air & Space Magazine:
Bruce McCandless and His Flying Machine
Ars Technica:
The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13
February 22, 2018
Space.com:
SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Due to High-Altitude Winds
Daily Mail:
Strong winds force SpaceX to delay the launch of the first of nearly 12,000 'Starlink' satellites that could bring super-fast internet to billions of people
Space News:
NASA foresees human lunar landings by the late 2020s
Popular Mechanics:
NASA's $1 Billion Mobile Launcher Leans a Little
Daily Mail:
Nasa is making new spacesuits with built-in TOILETS to replace the leaky diapers currently worn by astronauts
Daily Mail:
European space probe that will 'sniff' the Martian atmosphere for signs of life has successfully swung into position ahead of its mission
Spaceflight Insider:
MRO image shows dust covering Phoenix landing site
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon 9 on the eve of launch from Vandenberg
February 21, 2018
Teslerati:
SpaceX to attempt "hot" Falcon 9 landing at sea in spite of heavy payload
Daily Mail:
SpaceX's claw boat dubbed 'Mr. Steven' will use a net 'like a giant catcher's mitt' to recover Falcon 9's nose cone after next launch
Spaceflight Insider:
Could the X3 ion thruster propel us to Mars?
Spaceflight Insider:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in precautionary standby mode
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's Opportunity rover still finding surprises on Mars
Daily Mail:
Cassini's 'final frontier': NASA shares stunning new image of the site where its spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere
Daily Mail:
Jupiter's Earth-sized 'Great Red Spot' megastorm may only have 10 to 20 years left before it dies
Spaceflight Insider:
Opportunity rover has spent 5,000 Martian days on the Red Planet
Popular Science:
The Little Rover That Could
February 20, 2018
Red Bull:
A history of Australia's eeriest alien encounters
EarthSky:
Astronomers tracking close-passing asteroid 2017 VR12
MetroNews Canada:
Green 'fireball' meteor Sunday wows Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island
Eugene Register-Guard:
Fireball of burning "space junk" glowed across northwestern Oregon on Wednesday night
The Oregonian:
Bright fireball that burned across Oregon skies likely just 'space junk,' experts say
Space News:
NASA certifies Falcon 9 for science missions
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Russian cargo freighter blasts off from snow-covered launch pad
Daily Mail:
NASA revives its Cold War-era idea of using atomic rockets to create 'drastically smaller' craft that will get to Mars by the 2030s
Popular Mechanics:
After Years of Problems, NASA's Robonaut Is Coming Home
Daily Mail:
Can you see it? Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster is spotted zooming through space in incredible footage captured 500,000 miles away
PRESIDENTS' DAY WEEKEND EDITION:
February 17, 2018 through February 19, 2018
Live Science:
Life Could Exist in Strange, Alien Universes
Forbes:
The Big Bang Theory's Top Critic Also Named It
Forbes:
Chaos Theory, The Butterfly Effect, And The Computer Glitch That Started It All
Daily Mail:
Robots ski and tumble down the slopes in their own 'Olympics' ski challenge on the sidelines of the Winter Games in Pyeongchang
Daily Mail:
Who's a good boy? Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robo-dog has learned how to open DOORS for his 'friends'
The Guardian:
Dinosaur-killing asteroid caused molten rock to burst from ocean floor - study
The History Blog:
Trail of mammoth footprints found in Oregon
Ars Technica:
DNA from the poop of extinct four-meter-tall birds reveals lost ecosystem
Daily Mail:
The rock art that rewrites the history of Saudi Arabia: 10,000-year-old engravings of rare aurochs and wild camels reveal the area would have been a haven for prehistoric animals
The History Blog:
Getty acquires 5th c. B.C. Etruscan sun god applique
The Guardian:
Friends, Romans, naked wolf-men ... why an ancient festival is still controversial
Daily Mail:
'Unprecedented' life-sized camel sculptures dating back 2,000 years are discovered engraved in rock in the Saudi desert
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Crusader-Era High Altar Resurfaces in Jerusalem's Holy Sepulcher
BBC History Extra:
The Jews of medieval England
The History Blog:
Portrait of Henry VIII is truly Tudor
The History Blog:
Mauritshuis identifies "copy" as original Jan Steen
Smithsonian Magazine:
Some Stories About George Washington Are Just Too Good to Be True
HistoryNet:
Untouchable Agent 13
History.com:
Which American President Was the First to be Photographed?
HistoryNet:
Elizabeth Peabody: An Old Soul
History.com:
California Once Tried to Ban Black People
History.com:
Meet the Real-Life Family Behind "Little Women"
HistoryNet:
SLIDESHOW: 5 Civil War Veteran Presidents
History.com:
Frederick Douglass's Emotional Meeting With His Former Slave Master
The Atlantic:
WWI's Zeppelin Bombings Popularized the Trend of 'Pyjamas'
Daily Mail:
Horrors of the Somme brought to life: Soldiers haul heavy guns through the mud and devastation and wait nervously in the trenches during WWI's bloodiest battle in incredible colourised photos
History.com:
A Divided Germany Came Together for the Olympics Decades Before Korea Did
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Devastating Impact of the 1961 Plane Crash That Wiped Out the Entire U.S. Figure Skating Team
Atlas Obscura:
The Gay Coffeehouse Where Off-Off Broadway Theater Was Born
Atlas Obscura:
The Underground Magazine That Sparked the Longest Obscenity Trial in British History
Popular Mechanics:
7 Monster Machines That Didn't Quite Go As Planned
Atlas Obscura:
Rediscovering the Blazingly Bright Colors of Ancient Sculptures
Atlas Obscura:
Meet the Artist Who Makes Creatures Out of Cutlery
February 16, 2018
Drive -- The War Zone:
You Need To Hear These FAA Tapes From That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent F-15s Scrambling
Popular Science:
China shot down another missile in space
Popular Mechanics:
Launching To Space at a Crawl
Popular Mechanics:
Here's How NASA's Wild Airless Tires Work
HistoryNet:
Delta Dreamer
Popular Science:
WATCH: 24 of the most famous space launches ever
Popular Mechanics:
The Very Real History of Death Stars
February 15, 2018
MuckRock:
Formerly SECRET memo shows how the Air Force investigated UFO sightings
Spaceflight Insider:
Orion spacecraft planned for lunar mission begins construction by Lockheed Martin
Stuff NZ:
Roger Hanson: The promise of the Heavy Falcon
Spaceflight Now:
Elon Musk's Tesla will have a close encounter with Earth in 2091
Astrobiology Magazine:
A Piece of Mars is Going Home
Daily Mail:
NASA spacecraft speeding toward a nearby asteroid snaps incredible photo of Earth and the moon from nearly 40 MILLION miles away
February 14, 2018
Daily Mail:
The secret payload aboard SpaceX's orbiting Roadster: Tiny quartz storage disc designed to last MILLIONS of years revealed to be carrying a mini 'library' through space
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket launches cargo freighter to International Space Station
Spaceflight Insider:
Progress MS-08 cargo ship launches on two-day trek to ISS
Spaceflight Insider:
What really happened to GovSat-1's Falcon 9 first stage?
Astrobiology Magazine:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Preparing for Years Ahead
Popular Science:
Dust, meteorites, cosmic rays and everything else currently destroying the Tesla in space
February 13, 2018
Michigan Radio:
Forty years ago this weekend, a WJR radio personality may have encountered a UFO
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of Progress MS-08 space station cargo freighter scrubbed
Spaceflight Now:
Resupply launch scrubbed, thwarting fast-track rendezvous with space station
Space News:
NASA studying commercial crew contingency plans
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA prepares Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to support future missions
Daily Mail:
Cigar-shaped interstellar asteroid that was thought to be an 'alien probe' collided with a mystery object before tumbling into our solar system at 97,200mph
February 12, 2018
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk's red Roadster is now officially a celestial object: NASA adds the orbiting sports car and 'space-suit wearing mannequin' to the log of objects in the solar system (and reveals it's also towing sci-fi novels and a toy Tesla)
Live Science:
The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Atomic Clock Ever Launched into Space
Popular Mechanics:
Russia Is Now Working on a Super Heavy Rocket of Its Own
Popular Mechanics:
The James Webb Space Telescope Takes a Road Trip
Gizmodo:
Interstellar Asteroids Like 'Oumuamua Could Rewrite the Origins of Life on Earth
WEEKEND EDITION: February 10, 2018 through February 11, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
LHC Scientists Discover First Evidence of Particle Proposed Nearly 50 Years Ago
Forbes:
What's Wrong With Newtonian Gravity?
Popular Mechanics:
The Equation That Produces a Graph of Itself
Smithsonian Magazine:
Meet the Robots of the 2018 Olympics
Scientific American:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
IFL Science:
Bizarrely, A Tiny Town In Australia Is Actually Sitting On A Part Of Ancient North America
The Conversation:
Five active volcanoes on my Asia Pacific 'Ring of Fire' watch-list right now
Forbes:
The New Madrid Earthquake Struck 206 Years Ago
Daily Mail:
Climate change-driven collapse of rainforests 307 million years ago spurred mass extinction among Earth's first land animals - and paved the way for modern mammals to emerge
Stuff NZ:
Fossils from 205 million years ago named as a 'new' reptile
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover the most complete bird fossil from the dinosaur era ever found encased in 99 MILLION-year-old amber
Daily Mail:
Incredible 90 million-year-old fossil of a 'lizard fish' is found by a 10-year-old boy touring a Colombian monastery in a 'once-in-a-lifetime discovery'
ABC Australia:
Some things you may not know about fantastic flying foxes
ABC Australia:
Cheddar Man: First modern Britons had 'dark to black' skin, DNA research reveals
The Guardian:
Discovery of Windsor Neolithic monument excites archaeologists
The History Blog:
Tomb of high-ranking 5th Dynasty priestess found in Giza
Daily Mail:
Stunning new images mapping an ancient Mayan 'megalopolis' reveal the site where THOUSANDS of pyramids and palaces now lay hidden beneath thick jungle foliage in Guatemala
The History Blog:
Warwick high school scores a Roman villa
Daily Mail:
Archaeologists in Israel unearth 1,800-year-old 'rare and beautiful' Roman mosaic inscribed with mysterious Greek text at site of ancient shopping mall
Daily Mail:
One of the world's most famous medieval manuscripts, the lavishly illustrated Book Of Kells, was created in two halves up to 50 years apart
The History Blog:
UK bars export of rare Georgian baby house
Atlas Obscura:
How Lewis and Clark Helped Shape American English
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Book That Spooked the South
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco's ghost ships are buried here
Smithsonian Magazine:
Frederick Douglass' 200th Birthday Invites Remembrance and Reflection
San Francisco Chronicle:
Here's what San Francisco looked like 100 years ago
San Francisco Chronicle:
You'll hardly recognize San Francisco in these vintage postcards from the 1939-40 Expo
Timeline:
Photos: The L.A. Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 were a targeted attack on Mexican and nonwhite youths
Smithsonian Magazine:
Rare Home Movies of the Secret Manhattan Project Grounds
BBC History Extra:
From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream
Smithsonian Magazine:
In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre
History.com:
How the Black Panthers' Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government
Atlas Obscura:
Found: An Unknown Language Spoken in a Single Malaysian Village
Popular Mechanics:
What To Do in a Nuclear Attack
February 9, 2018
Daily Mail:
'Son of Blackbird' hypersonic spy plane could 'circle the globe in three hours' to strike targets at twice the speed of a bullet, Boeing engineer claims
Daily Mail:
Is this the flying taxi of the future? Electric 200mph 16-rotor 'megadrone' that can transform into a plane mid-air gets $100 million backing from Toyota and Intel
Daily Mail:
EHang's driverless MEGADRONE carries passengers around China at 80mph in its first ever test flights
Popular Mechanics:
Why an Enormous British Airship Required Thousands of Ox Intestines to Get off the Ground
Atlas Obscura:
When NASA Wasn't Sure if Astronauts Could Swallow in Space
Phys.org:
Sticking to the schedule was difficult for Apollo astronauts
Ars Technica:
The Greatest Leap, part 4: Catching Apollo fever as a new NASA employee
February 8, 2018
Evansville Courier & Press:
Webb: UFOs invaded the Tri-State in 1963. What were they?
Newsweek:
Two Asteroids Only Discovered Sunday Pass Earth Closer Than the Moon This Week
Inverse:
This Asteroid Can't Wait to Snuggle Earth on Friday
Daily Mail:
The galaxy's fastest car: Elon Musk releases stunning real-time video of Tesla Roadster and its passenger zooming through space (but admits it OVERSHOT its orbit and is now going beyond Mars at 25,000mph)
Daily Mail:
Elon Musk confirms the middle booster of Falcon Heavy EXPLODED after it missed its drone ship and hit the ocean at 300mph during SpaceX's historic launch of the world's most powerful rocket
The Guardian:
SpaceX rocket set to overshoot Mars and hurtle towards asteroid belt
Popular Mechanics:
SpaceX Aims to Begin BFR Spaceship Flight Tests as Soon as Next Year
New Atlas:
Dream Chaser cleared to visit space station in 2020
Astrobiology Magazine:
New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth
Universe Today:
The Solar System Probably has Thousands of Captured Interstellar Asteroids
February 7, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX does it for the first time again: Falcon Heavy sends a Tesla to deep space
Daily Mail:
Flight of the Falcon: Moment Elon Musk fired the world's most powerful rocket and a Tesla Roadster to MARS (with Bowie's Life on Mars on its stereo and a crash-test dummy at the wheel) then landed two booster rockets together in perfect sync
Space News:
SpaceX no longer planning crewed missions on Falcon Heavy
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Falcon Heavy blasts off, boosters land at Cape Canaveral
Daily Mail:
India will land a rover on the moon in APRIL: Nation plans to send an orbiter, lander and a surface probe to explore the lunar south pole in a world first
Daily Mail:
Construction has officially begun on the Orion crew capsule that will one day take humans to the moon and Mars, Lockheed Martin reveals
Daily Mail:
Scientists discover planets in galaxies beyond the Milky Way for the first time in microlensing breakthrough
February 6, 2018
EarthSky:
Watch online as 2 asteroids sweep close this week
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX set to attempt history again with Falcon Heavy's first flight
Popular Mechanics:
SpaceX Just Put Out an Animated Version of the Falcon Heavy Launch
Popular Mechanics:
Elon Musk's Space Tesla Isn't Going to Mars. It's Going Somewhere More Important.
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Falcon Heavy in position for first test launch
Universe Today:
12,800 Years Ago, Earth Was Struck by a Disintegrating Comet, Setting Off Global Firestorms
Daily Mail:
Ancient humans may have witnessed catastrophic fireballs from a 62-mile-wide comet near the end of the last Ice Age that spurred blazes larger than the 'dinosaur killers'
February 5, 2018
Smithsonian Magazine:
How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times
Adventures in Poor Taste:
Life imitates art? - The reciprocal relationship between UFO reports and Hollywood
Daily Mail:
NASA fires up the engine of its SLS megarocket for the second time this year in another step toward future missions to the moon and Mars
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX receives commercial launch license for first Falcon Heavy flight
Spaceflight Now:
Cosmonauts upgrade station high-gain antenna on record-breaking spacewalk
Daily Mail:
Mars as never seen before: NASA's Curiosity rover reveals a stunning panorama of the Martian landscape
Spaceflight Insider:
Tiangong-1 space laboratory to crash to Earth between mid-March and mid-April, according to new ESA estimates
WEEKEND EDITION: February 3, 2018 through February 4, 2018
Forbes:
How Did The Matter In Our Universe Arise From Nothing?
Daily Mail:
The most detailed model of our universe ever created: Stunning simulation showing 13 BILLION years of evolution could unlock the secrets of our cosmos
Wired:
The Legend of Chimp, the Vaguely Humanoid Robot
Live Science:
Meet Erica, Japan's Next Robot News Anchor
Edmonton Sun:
Japanese cafe hires robot barista
Daily Mail:
Rare 200 million-year-old ichthyosaurus fossil discovered in a private collection two decades after it was uncovered is only the second example of its species ever found
Daily Mail:
Stone mason, 21, inspired by Sir David Attenborough takes just 15 minutes to find a 190-million-year-old ammonite on his first ever fossil dig in East Devon
Daily Mail:
Dinosaurs and mammals crossed paths on this enormous slab of rock outside Washington, DC, 110 MILLION years ago (and it's been hiding in a NASA parking lot)
Daily Mail:
New species of bus-sized titanosaur that travelled across the Sahara 80 million years ago reveals an ancient link between Africa and Europe during the end of the dinosaurs' reign
Daily Mail:
Did humans leave Africa earlier than we thought? Scientists find impressive stone tools from India that suggest our species dispersed 85,000 years before
Ars Technica:
Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America
Daily Mail:
Maya 'megalopolis' featuring thousands of ancient pyramids, palaces and causeways is found hidden under thick jungle foliage in Guatemala
Daily Mail:
Rare gold and garnet Anglo-Saxon cross found 'still gleaming' on the chest of a teenage noble girl buried 1,300 years ago is set to go on display in Cambridge
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Newly Digitized 16th-Century Planisphere Is the Largest-Known Early Map
Forbes:
The Day An Earthquake In America Caused A Tsunami In Japan
HistoryNet:
Missing Alamo Missives
History.com:
Was the Real Lone Ranger a Black Man?
HistoryNet:
Flash-in-the-Pan Creede
Atlas Obscura:
Demystifying the Winchester Mystery House
HistoryNet:
Wizard of the Wires
HistoryNet:
Speaking in Tongues
Air & Space Magazine:
The First Black Airmen to Fly Across America
HistoryNet:
The "Good" Conscientious Objector Lew Ayres
Aviation History Magazine:
Forty Seconds Over Eisenach
HistoryNet:
An Ill Wind: How American Secrecy Stopped a Japanese Terror Attack
HistoryNet:
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: Operatives Take On Nazi Forces in Norway
HistoryNet:
In the Uniform of the Enemy: The Dutch Waffen-SS
Flashbak:
The House of The Future: Charles Schridde's Stunning 1960s Adverts For Motorola
February 2, 2018
Jalopnik:
A Russian Fighter Jet Just Came Screaming Within Five Feet Of An American Navy Spy Plane
The Aviationist:
Navy Has Released Additional Videos Of The Russian Su-27 Intercepting U.S. EP-3E To Show How Close The Flanker Was To The Spy Plane
Popular Mechanics:
The Air Force Turned Off GPS To Rehearse a War Without It
Galesburg Register-Mail:
R-M Archives: Space race full speed in 1959
Austin American-Statesman:
The short suborbital career of Austin native Sam the Space Monkey
New Atlas:
60 years ago today, America launched its first satellite into orbit
Christian Science Monitor:
Explorer 1 at 60: How has space travel changed us?
Birmingham News:
Celebrating the Army's Explorer 1 legacy
Astronomy Magazine:
Explorer 1: The start of the American Space Age
Los Angeles Times:
Blast from the past: How Explorer 1, America's first satellite, launched the space race and NASA
Los Angeles Times:
They ran the first lap of a long space race
Space.com:
Relive the Launch of Explorer 1, America's 1st Satellite (Videos)
February 1, 2018
Space News:
SpaceX launches GovSat-1 with previously flown Falcon 9 booster
Spaceflight Now:
Soyuz rocket fires into space with 11 satellites
Spaceflight Insider:
Launch of GovSat-1 clears the way for first flight of Falcon Heavy
Spaceflight Now:
Juno's latest imagery from Jupiter
Daily Mail:
Rare 'super blue blood moon' not seen for more than 150 years stuns skygazers around the world
January 31, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch to replace second stage sensor
New Atlas:
NASA to attempt recovery of lost IMAGE satellite
Ars Technica:
Russia's Proton rocket falls on hard times
Forbes:
How The James Webb Space Telescope Will Deploy (In An Ideal World)
Popular Science:
Astronauts lose weight in space, and it might be because their food is literally floating around inside them
Forbes:
Dawn Spacecraft Shines Light On Shrouded Dwarf Planet
January 30, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
2nd Falcon 9 of 2018 readied to loft Luxembourg's GovSat-1
Universe Today:
NASA's Insight Lander Spreads Its Solar Wings. It'll Fly To Mars In May, 2018
Seeker:
NASA's GOLD Mission Will Observe How Weather on Earth and in Space Interact
Universe Today:
Icy Worlds Like Europa and Enceladus Might Actually be too Soft to Land On
Universe Today:
Get Set For a "Super Blue Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse"
January 29, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
China launches fourth trio of Yaogan military satellites since September
Spaceflight Insider:
Ariane 5 rocket places 2 satellites into orbit despite telemetry anomaly
Spaceflight Now:
Ariane 5 deploys two telecom satellites in orbit despite telemetry loss
Spaceflight Insider:
Satellites placed into incorrect orbits by Ariane 5 can be recovered, owners say
Space News:
SpaceX sets first Falcon Heavy launch for Feb. 6
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX schedules Feb. 6 target date for Falcon Heavy test launch
Spaceflight Now:
Software patch fixes station robot arm; Monday spacewalk repair called off
Spaceflight Insider:
Software patch fixes Canadarm2 anomaly, US EVA-48 postponed
Spaceflight Insider:
Dust storms linked to gas escaping Martian atmosphere
New Atlas:
Long "dead" NASA satellite discovered alive by amateur astronomer
WEEKEND EDITION: January 27, 2018 through January 28, 2018
Forbes:
Yes, The Multiverse Is Real, But It Won't Fix Physics
Forbes:
The Three Meanings Of E=mc^2, Einstein's Most Famous Equation
Gizmodo:
Test of Einstein's Theory Confirms the Sun Is Losing Mass
Big Think:
The 3 biggest mistakes made by Einstein
BBC News:
Meet the motorbike-racing robot
Daily Mail:
Pole-dancing robot STRIPPERS that 'stole the show' at a Las Vegas club are headed to NYC this weekend
Albuquerque Journal:
Fabio (the robot) gets fired after only a week
Daily Mail:
Life may have existed on Earth more than 4 BILLION years ago during the planet's 'hellish' early years, when it was repeatedly slammed by asteroids
Daily Mail:
Raven-sized creature that lived in southern Germany 150 million years is the oldest example of the 'missing link' between dinosaurs and birds
Daily Mail:
How the horse lost its toes: Creature evolved hooves 5 million years ago to gallop faster but still carries the 'buds' of its lost digits complete with their own nerves and blood vessels
New York Times:
In Cave in Israel, Scientists Find Jawbone Fossil From Oldest Modern Human Out of Africa
The Guardian:
Oldest known human fossil outside Africa discovered in Israel
Daily Mail:
Neolithic pottery shard decorated with stunning ochre patterns reveals early humans in Europe were better connected than first thought
Daily Mail:
One of the world's first crayons used to decorate animal skins by our ancestors 10,000 years ago is found in an ancient lake in Scarborough
The History Blog:
83-ton Ramses II collossus moved to new home
Daily Mail:
Ancient calendar used by a celibate Jewish brotherhood is revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls after scientists painstakingly piece together 60 tiny fragments of the mysterious text
Daily Mail:
Are we closer to solving the mystery of the 600-year-old Voynich manuscript? AI claims to have cracked the code in the 'world's most mysterious book'
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Dodge City Became a Symbol of Frontier Lawlessness
San Francisco Chronicle:
A peek inside vintage California grocery stores of years gone by
Atlas Obscura:
The U.S. Government Once Nuked a Bunch of File Cabinets
The Conversation:
50 years ago, a US military jet crashed in Greenland - with 4 nuclear bombs on board
Smithsonian Magazine:
Fifty Years Ago, North Korea Captured an American Ship and Nearly Started a Nuclear War
The Atlantic:
The People Who Would Survive Nuclear War
The Atlantic:
'Charlottesville': A Government-Commissioned Story About Nuclear War
Atlas Obscura:
Meet the People Keeping Mold-A-Rama Alive
January 26, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
No Treaty Will Stop Space Weapons
Wired:
Riding a Wild Wind, Transatlantic Jets Fly Faster Than Ever
Daily Mail:
The 'Segway of the sky' that ANYONE can fly: French Flyboard inventor Franky Zapata reveals new Ezfly hoverboard that uses jet thrusters to zoom you through the air at 80mph
Popular Mechanics:
Airports Keep Renaming Runways for a Peculiar Reason: Magnetism
The Verge:
Apollo astronauts often fell behind schedule on the Moon
Hackaday:
Space Escape: Flying A Chair To Lunar Orbit
Air & Space Magazine:
Before Launching Probes to Venus, NASA Had to Figure Out Exactly Where It Was
January 25, 2018
Daily Mail:
Nasa is tracking a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of the Burj Khalifa that will fly past Earth at a distance of just 200,000 miles
Popular Mechanics:
There's a New Brightest Object in the Sky
Daily Mail:
Ready for liftoff! Elon Musk says Falcon Heavy megarocket could launch as soon as next week after SpaceX FINALLY fires up all 27 engines in secretive test at Florida launchpad
Spaceflight Now:
Hold-down firing nudges Falcon Heavy rocket closer to first liftoff
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Falcon Heavy warms up LC-39A during static test fire
Universe Today:
Finally! SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Does its Static Fire Test. Actual Flight Should Be "In A Week Or So"
Popular Science:
Watch SpaceX's massive Falcon Heavy rocket pass an explosive milestone
Universe Today:
This is the Surface of a Giant Star, 350 Times Larger Than the Sun
Daily Mail:
Two Earth-like planets with enough water and heat for life to flourish are found in a solar system that looks similar to our own 39 light years away
January 24, 2018
Daily Mail:
SpaceX eyes Wednesday for the first test fire of all 27 engines on the Falcon Heavy megarocket after several setbacks
Popular Mechanics:
Rocket Lab Reveals Secret Engine and "Kick Stage" for the Electron Rocket
Spaceflight Now:
Spacewalkers complete repairs to station robotic arm
Spaceflight Insider:
Astronauts replace Canadarm2 'hand' on ISS in first spacewalk of 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Build-up of Ariane 5 rocket complete for launch Thursday
Spaceflight Insider:
Juno spacecraft captures stunning images of Jupiter's cloud tops, storms
January 23, 2018
Daily Mail:
When WILL SpaceX test its megarocket? Falcon Heavy static fire delayed again due to government shutdown - as NASA reveals it's also suspended activities
Daily Mail:
Nasa begins tests of its 430,000mph probe that will 'touch the sun' in an attempt to predict devastating solar storms
The Atlantic:
When Will Astronauts Launch From U.S. Soil Again?
Universe Today:
Upcoming Telescopes Should be Able to Detect Mountains and Other Landscapes on Extrasolar Planets
Gizmodo:
Our Universe Could Be Littered With Alien Viruses - and We Should Be Looking for Them
January 22, 2018
C|Net:
Newly spotted asteroid slips by Earth and nearby satellites
Washington Post:
Let's talk about the big scary asteroid that's NOT going to hit Earth
CBC:
Fire in the sky: Albertans report fireball over province
Daily Mail:
Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor days after the exploding space rock sent a fireball tearing through the night sky
Sky & Telescope:
Hunters Recover Meteorites From Michigan Fireball
Space News:
Rocket Lab Electron reaches orbit on second launch
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket Lab delivers nanosatellites to orbit on first successful test launch
Spaceflight Now:
U.S. military satellite launched to fortify against missile attacks
Spaceflight Now:
Asteroid missions on track to reach their destinations in 2018
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Ohio's famous encounter with a meteor had a lasting impression
Forbes:
Yes, We Can Survive A Deadly Asteroid Impact Just As Our Early Ancestors Did
The Conversation:
A huge asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, but what danger do smaller ones pose?
WEEKEND EDITION: January 20, 2018 through January 21, 2018
Quanta Magazine:
Why an Old Theory of Everything Is Gaining New Life
Science Trends:
Using Machine Learning To Study The String Landscape
The Verge:
This tiny robot moves so fast it's just a blur on camera
Wired:
Forget the Robot Singularity Apocalypse. Let's Talk About the Multiplicity
Daily Mail:
From the tiny robot controlled by your brainwaves, to the AI companion that can recognize your pets: The adorable bots on display at CES
Daily Mail:
Exquisite wing fossils reveal the world's first butterflies appeared 200 million years ago, long BEFORE there were flowers on Earth to pollinate
Live Science:
Little 'Rainbow' Dinosaur Discovered by Farmer in China
Atlas Obscura:
An Amazing Fossilized Eye Reveals How an Ancient Bird Saw
Daily Mail:
The giant burrowing BAT that scurried along the ground 19 million years ago
Daily Mail:
Orangutans 'may know medicines unknown to humans': Great apes are filmed chewing plants to make 'ointment' that eases aching limbs in a world first
Daily Mail:
Incredible footage shows an octopus change colour in SECONDS to protect itself from predators
The Guardian:
Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek 'pyramid'
Live Science:
4,000-Year-Old Mummies Are Half Brothers, DNA Analysis Shows
Live Science:
Archaeologists Begin Search for Tomb of King Tut's Wife
Live Science:
Untouched 'Frozen Tomb' Discovered in Siberia
BBC History Extra:
Scythians: the art of war
The History Blog:
Precise date of Porta Nigra in Trier identified
The History Blog:
Unique Roman game board found in 4th c. tomb in Slovakia
Daily Mail:
Political life of the mysterious Moche 'desert people' is revealed after researchers uncover two secret chambers used by leaders for debates and elaborate feasts 1,500 years ago
Forbes:
The Day England Outlawed Alchemy
BBC History Extra:
Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent
BBC History Extra:
The plot to kidnap King George III
Smithsonian Magazine:
From Helping Shut-Ins to Sisterly Advice, Mail-Order Magazines Did More Than Just Sell Things
Atlas Obscura:
The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
The History Blog:
Trouvelot's astronomical drawings to go on display
Daily Mail:
Seen for the first time in a century: Previously unknown Van Gogh masterpieces that provide a 'stylistic missing link' for the Dutch artist go on display in Amsterdam
Forbes:
Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine
Atlas Obscura:
The Painstaking Process Behind Those Wild WWI Naval Paint Jobs
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography
The Atlantic:
The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA
Atlas Obscura:
Who Really Designed the American Dime?
Atlas Obscura:
How Mr. Potato Head Changed the Advertising Business
Jalopnik:
This Is What A Nuclear 'Fizzle' Looks Like
Smithsonian Magazine:
Sixty Years Ago, Willie O'Ree Broke the NHL's Color Barrier
Atlas Obscura:
The Little-Known History of Seafaring Pets
January 19, 2018
Bloomberg:
America's Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back - and Hypersonic
The Aviationist:
The Belgian Air Force Has Released Footage Of The Russian Tu-160 Blackjack Intercepted Over The North Sea
History Net:
The Sky's Their Canvas
Daily Mail:
All hail the Hurricane: How the rugged aerial warrior was a masterpiece of strength and resilience that the RAF would have lost the Battle of Britain without
Air & Space Magazine:
The Day a Soviet Moon Rover Refused to Stop
Newmax:
Genius Was Behind Apollo's Lunar Legacy
January 18, 2018
Newsweek:
Giant 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Will Whiz By Earth So Close We Can See Inside It
WILX-TV:
Meteorite fragments scattered across Mid-Michigan
ABC News:
Science Says: That Michigan meteor could have been meatier
Detroit Free Press:
Which type of meteorite landed in Michigan? NASA 90% sure it knows
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Ground crews roll 75th Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad
Spaceflight Insider:
Aerojet Rocketdyne starts off a busy 2018 with hot fire of RS-25 engine
Spaceflight Insider:
Long March 11 scheduled to orbit nine small satellites Friday
Astrobiology Magazine:
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth
Spaceflight Insider:
Titan's haze captured in Cassini photo
Astrobiology Magazine:
Meteorites Brought Water To Earth During the First Two Million Years
January 17, 2018
CBS News:
"Likely" meteor lights up sky over Michigan, National Weather Service says
NBC News:
'Fireball' Lights Up Midwestern Sky, Tangles Emergency Phone Lines, Sets Twitter Ablaze
Spaceflight Now:
Sharp-eyed surveillance satellite launched by China
Spaceflight Now:
Electron test launch from New Zealand could happen this weekend
Spaceflight Now:
Photos: Delta 4 blasts off from Vandenberg's historic SLC-6 launch pad
Spaceflight Now:
James Webb Space Telescope completes critical end-to-end test
January 16, 2018
Digital Trends:
SpaceX aims to fire up its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday
Forbes:
Doubts About SpaceX Reliability Persist As Astronaut Missions Approach
Space News:
New U.S. missile-warning satellite set for launch at Cape Canaveral
Endgadget:
Chinese booster rocket nearly smashes into a small town
Spaceflight Insider:
Steep Martian slopes reveal structure of underground ice sheets
Astrobiology Magazine:
Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth
January 15, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Delta 4 rocket successfully lofts clandestine NRO satellite into orbit
Spaceflight Insider:
Classified NROL-47 mission launches from Vandenberg
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX's CRS-13 Dragon capsule departs ISS after 4-week stay
Spaceflight Now:
Commercial cargo craft splashes down in Pacific Ocean after station resupply run
Space News:
SpaceShipTwo performs glide flight in advance of powered tests
Space News:
Safety panel raises concerns about Falcon 9 pressure vessel for commercial crew missions
Salon:
The asteroids most likely to hit Earth
January 12, 2018
Daily Mail:
Has Lockheed Martin FINISHED building the secret hypersonic successor to the Blackbird? Skunkworks boss hints SR-72 bomber has 'already been made'
Popular Mechanics:
"Son of Blackbird": Boeing Reveals Hypersonic Concept That Could Replace SR-71
Daily Mail:
Virgin Galactic will send tourists into space within MONTHS: Richard Branson's VSS Unity spaceplane completes another successful glide test 3 years after the firm's deadly crash
Daily Mail:
Passenger 'super-drones' square off at CES as Workhorse and Volocopter show off incredible self-flying taxis
The Aviationist:
America's Secret Airline To Area 51 Is Now Hiring Flight Attendants
The Aviationist:
That Time the Luftwaffe Experimented with a Rocket-Launched F-104G Starfighter
January 11, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
Chinese expert denies claims of Tiangong-1's uncontrolled re-entry
Universe Today:
China Says it Still has Control Over Tiangong - 1 and Can Decide Where It'll Crash
Daily Mail:
Top secret Zuma satellite DID fall into the Pacific after SpaceX launch, government officials confirm
Space News:
Pentagon shuts down questions about Zuma, and raises more questions
Spaceflight Now:
After Zuma, SpaceX keeps pace in preps for next Falcon 9 launch
Popular Mechanics:
Rocket Booster Falls From the Sky and Explodes Near Chinese Town
Daily Mail:
Think the weather is unpredictable on Earth? NASA image reveals the incredible cloud belts of Jupiter where storms rage with 129,000mph winds
Daily Mail:
Extraterrestrial diamond-studded 'Hypatia' stone found in Egypt is unlike anything seen in our solar system ever before, say scientists
January 10, 2018
Spaceflight Now:
Fate of mystery Zuma satellite in question
Daily Mail:
'Big Brother' spacecraft launches: World's first full-colour satellite is capable of capturing high-definition videos of individual people from orbit
Space News:
SpaceX delays commercial crew test flights to latter half of 2018
Space News:
Camera focus shift won't affect TESS mission
ABC Australia:
Mountain of water ice discovered just below Mars' surface
Space News:
In space and cyber, China is closing in on the United States
January 9, 2018
Regina Leader-Post:
Delving into Saskatchewan's most famous UFO sighting still sticks with me
Ars Technica:
It's not official, but sources say the secretive Zuma satellite was lost
Spaceflight Insider:
Was secret Zuma mission lost?
Spaceflight Now:
Plot thickens as New Horizons moves within year of next flyby
Spaceflight Insider:
Tiangong-1 space laboratory containing hazardous substance to crash to Earth in March
January 8, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX launches secretive 'Zuma' mission
Space News:
SpaceX launches classified payload to kick off busy year
Spaceflight Now:
SpaceX kicks off ambitious 2018 schedule with launch for U.S. government
Spaceflight Now:
Video: Falcon 9's first stage paints a dazzling spectacle in the sky
Space News:
Sierra Nevada clears Dream Chaser test milestone
Spaceflight Insider:
NASA's 'most experienced' astronaut, Moonwalker, John Young passes away aged 87
WEEKEND EDITION: January 6, 2018 through January 7, 2018
Forbes:
How Did The Matter In Our Universe Arise From Nothing?
Forbes:
Scientists Still Don't Know How Fast The Universe Is Expanding
Smithsonian Magazine:
This Is the Largest Known Prime Number Yet
Wired:
A Clever New Robotic 'Muscle' Seriously Lifts, Bro
Digital Trends:
Panasonic built a robot gentle enough to pick tomatoes, but not exactly graceful
Motherboard:
Should Robots Have Legs? An Investigation
Forbes:
This Is How Colossal The Largest Eruption Of The 20th Century Really Was
Forbes:
A Photographic Tour Of Some Of Iceland's Most Beautiful Volcanoes
Newsweek:
How Did Animals Evolve? Ancient Species Survived Without Oxygen
Newsweek:
Dinosaurs Ruled in 2017 - Here Are the Incredible Discoveries You May Have Missed
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A New Species of Lizard in a Dinosaur's Stomach
Newsweek:
Ancient Cave in China Filled With 45,000-Year-Old Stone Tools and Animal Bones, New Excavation Reveals
New Atlas:
Ancient DNA discovery reveals previously unknown population of native Americans
Live Science:
1,000-Year-Old Stone Structure in Mexico May Depict Creation of Earth
Atlas Obscura:
The Grocery List Sketched by Michelangelo
The History Blog:
Wellcome acquires elegant portrait of luxuriously bearded woman
Daily Mail:
Paper scraps from wreck of Blackbeard's 300-year-old flagship Queen Anne's Revenge reveal pirates enjoyed reading Captain Edward Cooke's 1712 adventure stories from the South Seas
BBC History Extra:
Frankenstein at 200: the birth of a gothic monster
Atlas Obscura:
Why a Maritime Forecast Is So Beloved in the United Kingdom
National Geographic:
Inside the 30-Year Quest for Babylon's Ishtar Gate
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla
Timeline:
The black celebrity from Hollywood's Golden Age who revealed the complexities of passing for white
Forbes:
Baseball And The Atom Bomb
Smithsonian Magazine:
Teen Idol Frankie Lymon's Tragic Rise and Fall Tells the Truth About 1950s America
Smithsonian Magazine:
A Timeline of 1968: The Year That Shattered America
Smithsonian Magazine:
How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future
Smithsonian Magazine:
Revisiting Vietnam 50 Years After the Tet Offensive
BBC History Extra:
Six trivial decisions that changed British history
Smithsonian Magazine:
The Top Ten Most Important Ancient Documents Lost to History
January 5, 2018
Popular Mechanics:
15 Air and Space Missions We're Excited for In 2018
New Atlas:
Workhorse's newly approved passenger drone free to fly at CES
The Aviationist:
The Incredible B-2 Wing Flutter Video and What It Means.
Atlas Obscura:
A Rooster, a Duck, and a Sheep Walk Into a Hot Air Balloon...
Spaceflight History:
What If a Shuttle Orbiter Struck a Bird? (1988)
Atlas Obscura:
How Space Stations Die
News.com Australia:
Last Apollo flight finally put scientist on the moon
January 4, 2018
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX conducts rehearsal for classified Zuma launch
Daily Mail:
SpaceX reveals stunning drone footage of its Falcon Heavy 'megarocket' on the launch pad
Spaceflight Insider:
2 external instruments installed on ISS over New Year's holiday
Daily Mail:
Japan launches 'super low altitude' Earth observation satellite that will orbit just 180 miles above us using a radical ion engine
Daily Mail:
Think the wolf moon was impressive? 'Super blue blood moon' to be visible for the first time in over 150 years on January 31st
January 3, 2018
Daily Mail:
SpaceX prepares to launch secretive Zuma satellite - but refuses to reveal what the top secret project is
Spaceflight Now:
Classified payload hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket at Vandenberg
Daily Mail:
Stunning NASA image from a spacecraft on its way to an asteroid shows Earth and the moon from three million miles away
Popular Science:
Five questions about NASA's plans to visit an alien world in 2069
Space News:
Sorry sci-fi fans, real wars in space not the stuff of Hollywood
January 2, 2018
Muncie Star Press:
UFO mania hit Muncie hard in 1973
New York Times:
Dad Believed in U.F.O.s. Turns Out He Wasn't Alone.
Metro:
Planet Earth survives nail-biting 'near miss' with bus-sized asteroid 2017 YZ4
Forbes:
Massive Near-Earth Asteroid Phaethon Is Even Bigger Than We Thought
Metro:
Spectacular fireball lights up the skies over Yorkshire on New Year's Eve
Sky and Telescope:
Looking Ahead: Space Missions for 2018
Gizmodo Australia:
All The Wild Stuff We're Going To Do In Space And Physics In 2018
Daily Mail:
First glimpse of Falcon Heavy: SpaceX raises Elon Musk's 'megarocket' on Cape Canaveral launchpad
Spaceflight Insider:
SpaceX Falcon Heavy raised for 1st time at Kennedy Space Center
Spaceflight Now:
Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
Popular Mechanics:
U.S. and China Both Want to Launch a Mars Sample Return Mission Before 2030
Daily Mail:
China set for groundbreaking 2018 mission to the far side of the moon - and will try to grow plants and insects on the lunar surface
NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND EDITION:
December 30, 2017 through January 1, 2018
Daily Galaxy:
"The Multiverse?" -- Merging Neutron Stars Challenge Existing Theories of Gravity and Dark Energy
Daily Mail:
Checkmate humanity: In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying
Daily Mail:
Where the 'Ring of Fire' could ignite in 2018: Researchers reveal the six volcanoes most at risk of eruption
Universe Today:
Just a Billion Years After the Earth Formed, Life had Already Figured out Plenty of Tricks
Astrobiology Magazine:
Origins of photosynthesis in plants dated to 1.25 billion years ago
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Tiny, Terrifying Sea Monster From 500 Million Years Ago
Atlas Obscura:
Found: A Plesiosaur, Antarctica's Oldest Animal Fossil
Daily Mail:
Dozens of perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs dating back 130 MILLION YEARS are unearthed in China's 'hometown of scary dragons'
Daily Mail:
Tufty hair, orange eyebrows, freckles and no roar: What tyrannosaurus rex was REALLY like
Live Science:
Ancient Axes, Spear Points May Reveal When Early Humans Left Africa
Daily Mail:
5,000-year-old eyeliner and scarabs inscribed with the titles of the elite reveal the rise of ancient Jericho
Daily Mail:
800-year-old coin minted by Henry III but then scrapped when blundering officials realised it was worth more as gold than its face value is expected to make £500,000 at auction
The History Blog:
Visitor identifies plant decorating medieval chest
Daily Mail:
The Christmas Flood of 1717: How one of the most devastating storms in European history killed 13,700 people in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands
History.com:
Women Got 'Married' Long Before Gay Marriage
BBC History Extra:
9 things you (probably) didn't know about Helen Keller
History.com:
How Times Square Became the Home of New Year's Eve
The New Yorker:
A New History of the Second World War
History.com:
The 7 Most Notorious Nazis Who Escaped to South America
History.com:
How a Postal Strike Became a National Emergency for Richard Nixon
Popular Mechanics:
The 2018 Sci-Fi Film Guide
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