#May2021

SpaceX Finally Landed Its Starship Rocket Without Exploding. Hell Yeah.

spacex starship landed without exploding

What a fucking headline, no? But like, you know how it goes. The price of progress is failure, and it appears SpaceX has failed enough for the moment. ‘Cause they finally landed their Starship rocket without it fucking exploding everywhere.

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China’s Tianwen-1 has successfully entered orbit around Mars. Hell yeah, fellas!

chinas tianwen-1 successfully entered mars orbit

China’s Tianwen-1 has successfully entered orbit around Mars, motherfuckers! As I always say: I know China is problematic as fuck. But if we’re only rooting for space missions tethered to non-problematic countries or companies, we’re never going to be rooting. So fuck yes. I’m stoked.

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SpaceX has successfully returned NASA astronauts to Earth, completing first Crew Dragon passenger flight!

spacex astronauts return to earth

Friends! Friends. Today, SpaceX successfully returned NASA astronauts to Earth! Fuck yes! It’s true, Elon Musk fucking sucks. I know this! I know this. But, there’s a lot of other talented rad folk at SpaceX, and I’m glad they’re crushing it.

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China says it will have a Moon base in ten fucking years. Game on, other nations!

china moon base ten years

China ain’t fucking around with the Moon, friends. They’re angling to get their asses established up there as soon as possible. What does this mean? Hopefully, it’ll light a fire under everyone else.

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Hell yes, Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space!

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Feeling blue? Humanity got you down? Well, check this shit out. NASA announced that Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space. In other words, we got two fucking probes that have left our solar system. If that doesn’t tickle your tits I don’t know what does.

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Space Swoon: Cassini Captures Saturn’s Hexagon

cassini capture's saturn's hexagon

Check it out! Here Cassini captures Saturn’s hexagon in all its glory.

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SpaceX makes history by launching and landing a used rocket

spacex launch and land used rocket

ELON MUSK. Please, sir. Please. Before you link all of our brains up to computers, can you please get some of us off this fucking rock? You’re doing good work, and this whole launching and landing a used rocket makes me feel like fuck it you may be on to something. ELON MUSK. Please, sir. Please.

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Two New Dark Moons may be hiding near Uranus. Jokes Write Themselves

dark moons uranus

Researchers have discovered  what appears to be two new Dark Moons. Lurking near Uranus. God is not without a sense of humor, it seems.

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There Are *Way* More Galaxies In The Universe Than Previously Thought

galaxies universe

An AstronomerWizard and his team have crunched the numbers and figured out something fucking staggering. There are *at least* 10 times as many galaxies in the Universe than previous thought. Motherfucker, we’re talking 700 billion trillion stars.

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China has turned on the World’s Largest Alien-Hunting Telescope

china alien hunting telescope

Put the rest of Earth’s Alien hunters on notice, folks. China has turned on its alien-hunting telescope, and it is the world’s largest.

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