Are We Meant to Leave Earth? Why Humanity May Have No Choice but to Go to Space
EPISODE # 566 Dec 02, 2025 About this episode: Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf joins Michael Shermer for a wide-ranging…
China’s first reusable rocket Zhuque-3 makes maiden voyage but recovery attempt fails
The United States is still the only country in the world to successfully return an orbital-class booster, though…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida
Twenty-nine newly-launched Starlink satellites are now in low Earth orbit. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the internet…
The USSR repeats secret lunar space tug test attempt
The USSR repeats secret lunar space tug test attempt One year after the failed launch of the first…
SpaceX Sets Launch Records in California
On the night of December 2, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California,…
LEGO announces new NASA Artemis SLS rocket set to lift off (literally!) in 2026
December 2, 2025 — How do you top a highly-detailed scale model of NASA’s new moon-bound rocket and…
December’s Full Supermoon Rises Under Ideal Photography Conditions : ScienceAlert
The last full Moon of 2025 is going to rise with all the panache conferred by a simultaneous…
First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature : ScienceAlert
A satellite has tracked a tsunami in greater detail than ever before, which could help improve models of…
NASA’s Fly Foundational Robots Demo to Bolster In-Space Infrastructure
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the…
Time travels faster on Mars than on Earth, and here’s why
Time passes, on average, 477 millionths of a second faster per day on Mars than on Earth thanks…
This Chinese company could become the country’s first to land a reusable rocket
That’s no Falcon 9 The Chinese companies that master reusable rocketry first will have an advantage in the…
NASA Tests Drones in Death Valley, Preps for Martian Sands and Skies
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency…