🚀 Only 10 days left to apply for the ESA Grant! Two grants support original research using ESA historical archives at the Historical Archives of the European Union. 🛰️📚 ℹ️ https://loom.ly/5gArtgA #ResearchGrant #SpaceHistory #ESAArchives @esa.int

Covert art for the Habitats Volume 2 kickstarter project, featuring a Bishops ring. #space #art by mateusz_urbanowicz www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

Zenomorph (an alien that never gets to its destination)

They used a moral compass instead of a ruler

Maximum Lifetime Of The Vegetative Biosphere astrobiology.com/2026/05/maxi... #astrobiology #exoplanet #habitability #Gaia

When Reece Shearsmith and Maisie Adam do team tasks on @taskmaster.tv, they look like they’re auditioning for Doctor Who.

Started yesterday, funded within the hour! 🥳 Something big is awakening, lurking deep beneath the ocean - and it's your own fault if you miss it! Seriously though, check out previous seasons of #LovecraftInvestigations; I guarantee you won't regret it! 😉

It gets even worse

“Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green” (17 Dec 2025) bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-man...

Adam is always bitingly sarcastic but never more than when he's doing a bit on musk

#OTD in 1969, the Soviet lander Venera 5 entered the Venusian atmosphere, followed the next day by Venera 6. Contact with both probes was lost at an altitude of about 18 kilometers, when the pressure exceeded 27 atmospheres.

Another Leonov / Sokolov favourite. Venera probe on Venus.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

I updated my Art for Sale page. These three, and other original drawings, are available now at www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Omg I have to watch this

More Star Wars archaeology, from Ash and Tilly on the latest And My Trowel podcast

While there is no immediate danger, the crash highlights that space junk is increasingly expanding out of lower-Earth orbit

I have a big new research paper on an epidemic problem we don’t discuss enough in astrobiology. Currently in review but I couldn’t wait to share so here is the video, paper should land on the arXiv next few days. youtu.be/u3HLrDkMRXY

[Upcoming book] Star Trek Picard: Rebuilding the Bridge (May) by @masterreplicas.bsky.social "Art director Liz Kloczkowski documents how the art department tracked down every reference and, working with an army of skilled craftspeople, rebuilt the Enterprise D bridge in immaculate detail." 👀

This is a map of Mars by the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, published in Sky & Telescope in 1954. The Space Age completely transformed our understanding of the solar system. 🔭🧪 www.alpo-astronomy.org/jbeish/Obser...

Elon Musk and the other techbros love to spout pithy aphorisms about humanity's future, as long as it feeds the insanely profitable ventures they own. But their understanding of the reality of it is shallow and superficial. My own thoughts: www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🔭 🧪

The Existential Horror (and Wonder) of No Man's Sky by @doriandawes.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/the-existent...

History of space archaeology: in 2003, the first ever conference session on space archaeology was convened at the World Archaeological Congress 5 in Washington DC. Here's the abstract for that session. 🧪 🔭 🏺

Looking for habitable planets in very unlikely places. Speculations on red giant & even white dwarf prospects for living worlds. Can a sufficiently advanced technology move its home planet? www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/03/25/i...

Dyson spheres & 'swarms' are theoretically great ways to harvest a star's energies, but are they stable? I look at new work by Colin McInnes on stability in a variety of huge constructs including stellar engines. Short answer: Stable only with great care. www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/04/24/s...

Rocket Exhaust Derived Surface Water Migration at Lunar Landing Sites: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... -> Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life: news.agu.org/press-releas...

David Wilcock, former star of "Ancient Aliens" and an early proponent of Pizzagate and QAnon, took his own life after a "mental health crisis," according to social media posts by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Corey Goode, and a Boulder County Sheriff's Dept. media statement. He was 53.

NASA shuts down Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on Voyager 1 to keep the nuclear-powered spacecraft operating, nearly 49 years after launch. science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

The Lovecraft Investigations podcast: excellent audio drama (also on BBC Sounds, if you have it). S1 - Charles Dexter Ward, S2 - Whisperer in the Darkness, S3 - Shadow Over Innsmouth, S4 - Haunter of the Dark. Then sign up to back this.

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

Now reading. Eight thousand years in the future, the hollowed-out planet Earth is filled with a colossal archive (descended from the Library of Congress).

The exhaust from numerous rocket launches could soon affect the precariously recovering ozone layer. And spacecraft pollute more when they’re done and burn up in the atmosphere. Read all about it in my new piece for Undark magazine: undark.org/2026/04/06/a...

Apparently the Artemis II crew have done a waste-water dump .... so there'll be lots of little yellow ice crystals on the way to the Moon! #SpaceJunk 🧪 #SpaceArchaeology

#OTD in 1964, Zond 1, Soviet attempted mission to Venus, was launched. Due to the pressure leak the Soviets did not reveal Venus as the target, merely announcing that the mission was a deep space engineering test. The last contact with Earth was on May 25, 1964.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered 58 years ago today. "An Epic Drama of Adventure and Exploration". 👌 Cinema was no longer the same.

Bumping this up the watchlist because debris from Skylab is the source of the infection ...