we have reached the “Nazi medical experiments” stage of our concentration camp effort

Oops. www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

From our Aotearoa (U Canterbury) 🇳🇿 team of Laura Revell, myself @astrokiwi.bsky.social and currently visiting Erskine Fellow @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy. Cross-disciplinary partnership at work 🚀

Constraining the Lifespan of Intelligent Technological Civilization in the Galaxy astrobiology.com/2026/02/cons... #astrobiology #SETI

Another of my livestream favorites, Exploring an Alien Artifact. Painted with casein on illustration board, the artifact was inspired by the Berzerker stories by Fred Saberhagen. The explorers in this scene have no idea what they are about to discover

Apparently Dan Simmons is dead. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/l... Complicated, of course—he wrote some wonderful books (eternally grateful to @mrsambarlow.bsky.social for introducing me to Carrion Comfort) and then also went full mask off fascist in later life, so, you know.

Before joining the RAF family, our Midlands site began as the Aerospace Museum at RAF Cosford, opening its hangars in 1974. From modest beginnings, five decades of dedication have helped us welcome 400,000+ visitors a year. Please support our Crate Escape Appeal by sponsoring a box : bit.ly/3OMDAnR

Five Science Fiction Stories About Investigating Enigmatic Artefacts #SpaceArchaeology 🏺

“The Thing Expanded would simply not have been complete without the participation of Kurt Russell. He and the Carpenter film are a Thing-like amalgam—a package deal that goes all the way down to a molecular level.” I loved Aliens Expanded, so I'll happily watch a 5-hour documentary on The Thing. 😁

“Are we the universe’s first technological species, or simply the only one left?” Dr. Chenoa Tremblay began her public lecture at Rhodes University with a question that, over the years, has shifted from philosophy to experiment. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more: www.ru.ac.za/latestnews/m...

Undetected Past Contacts With Technological Species: Implications For Technosignature Science astrobiology.com/2026/02/unde... #astrobiology #SETI

They didn't tell me that my piece was the cover story in the March 2026 issue of Fortean Times! How exciting! Be sure to check it out wherever you get your magazines!

#OTD in 1965, Ranger VIII spacecraft transmitted 7,137 photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned into Mare Tranquillitatis. The final image taken before impact has a resolution of 1.5 meters.

Alien church has pews, a pipe organ and smells of camphor. Classic McDevitt.

Human Spaceflight: 17 Feb 1965. Ranger 8 is launched today. Like Ranger 7 before it, the probe impacted the moon three days later, sending back over 7,000 Tv images on the way down. Ranger 8 impacted in the Sea of Tranquility. Once again, showing craters at every scale on the lunar surface.

I like both these series, even though they’re not the most thrilling sci fi … I wouldn’t call them cozy literature but they’re pretty comfortable. I recommend checking them out!

🚨🚨🚨 This new paper's interesting results indicate a sudden 10-fold increase in lithium at 96 km altitude due to #SpaceX Falcon 9 re-entry debris. This is now joining further modelling and evidence of impacts on the upper atmosphere - a shared global common we all rely on. 🔭🧪

Catching up on some space archaeological reading.

Streaming Sci Fi TV: #Stargate SG-1 Is Now Available on Netflix as Well as Prime Video and Pluto TV www.cancelledscifi.com/2026/02/16/s...

Which reminds me, should go start peasant bread from King Arthur. Look at the cool book MYV got me!!!! Also found a mosasaur lurking in the tree! Dracos got Lego succulents. MYV’s got great taste! 😊 4/4

When I was working on Hubble I would sometimes hang out in this library for a short break (it was in my building). I still have a couple of books they gave away when updating their stacks. So this has special meaning to me.

I am posting some photos of the NASA Goddard library taken yesterday. The photos were NOT taken by library employees - but rather by others at NASA Goddard . Word has it that trucks are arriving this weekend to begin removal of these boxes. More: nasawatch.com/trumpspace/n... #NASA

Human material culture on an asteroid #SpaceHeritage 🏺

The Chronicles of an Age of Darkness by Hugh Cook are back! All ten beautiful books. www.amazon.com/Chronicles-o...

ME AND WHO ME AND WHO ME AND WHOOOOO cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon on February 3, 1966, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. Despite the mission's success, its exact landing spot remained a mystery. Now, a new analysis may have solved it. 🧪 🔭 Learn more:

If you care about heritage in space, you might have heard of For All Moonkind, run by Ole Miss law professor Michelle Hanlon. She's just published a blog saying that archaeologists have no contribution to make regarding heritage in space. spacelawandethics.substack.com/p/who-actual...

A bit late (our article came out in August 2024), but coverage of our first publication of the SQuARE experiment on the ISS. "Archaeology conducted in space": www.earth.com/video/space-...

Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies? This Call for Papers is for you! Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference! Link in the reply.

I get where this is coming from & how #technofossils make sense given the geo-/paleontological backgrounds of the authors referred to here, but if we're talking about future #archaeologists, I'd think #artifacts still would be quite a suitable term, no? 🤔 www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Afrofuturist heist game Relooted is now available! It is a South African game where you reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums, as the end of the 21st century approaches. It's a subject that has fascinated me for a long time, so it's nice to cover it in a video game.👌

There's still hope, I guess, for preserving ISS after 2030. I'd still call it highly doubtful, but that's better than nothing. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: 60 years ago, the USSR's Luna 9 became the first-ever spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. But no one knew Luna 9's exact landing site. Now, machine-learning, better cameras, and old-fashioned sleuthing may be about to find it. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/wher...

Stargate (1994): Ra's Pyramid/Palace ship, concept by production designer Holger Gross, art by concept designer Oliver Scholl

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

"My saturn 5 interstage ring that is on my property. Not for sale. Too heavy to move anyway lol."

New Blogpost: "You Only Die Twice (redux): the unusual and confusing double reentry of a ZQ-3 upper stage (2025-282A)" sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2026/01/you-...

George R R Martin takes the job and bankrupts X at the $40 per hour rate.

The Benalla rocket park is going to be heritage-listed! #SpaceHeritage cc @stilgherrian.com

New book blog post, book 3 for the year! The Berserker Throne, by Fred Saberhagen skullsinthestars.com/2026/01/29/t...

Take a look at the first trailer for the Anime "THE GHOST IN THE SHELL" confirmed for July 2026 Moko-chan directing at Studio Science SARU.

Maybe the galaxy isn’t silent. Maybe it’s just whispering on a private network we haven’t plugged into yet. And the most exciting part? We might have the technology to spot the blinking lights of their routers right now. 🧪 🔭 Learn more: laserseti.net/is-the-galax...

This is an interesting study: using ground-based seismic data to track and localise incoming human-made space debris through re-entry shockwaves. #Seismology frens - I have a question: how does one distinguish the different signatures of human-made vs natural space debris? 🔭🧪

@cstross.bsky.social has the entire Hugo-Campbell-Clarke-BSFA-awarded novel 'Accelerando' free for reading on his website: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog... It starts with mind-uploaded lobsters and ends with a galaxy filled with Matrioshka brains.

Falling space junk can be tracked from its sonic booms | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

My editor copy is finally here from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social ! I'm so happy to see it irl, & I'm so proud of everyone's hard work! 🎉 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

'RUINS: Make you dream and give poetry to a landscape.' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s 🏺