The Moon's Going To Get Crowded - We Should Protect Our Heritage On It While We Still Can

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints - both literally and figuratively - all over the Moon. Today, there are over 100 metric tons of human-made material resting on the Moon’s surface - everything from advanced cameras and sensors to literal human waste. But that’s nothing compared to what’s to come. NASA predicts the next decade will see over 100 new lunar missions, equaling or exceeding all the missions previously flown. Which brings up a pressing question about all the stuff that’s already there - how do we protect that history? A new paper by Teasel Muir-Harmony, the Curator of the Space History Department of the Smithsonian and Todd Mosher, a Scholar in Residence at University of Colorado, Boulder, reports on a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Summit on Outer Space Heritage that dives into the legal, scientific, and engineering hurdles of preserving these historic sites.

From a Never Bike Tourer to Bikepacking in the Adirondacks: The Full Circle Journey of Exploration and Discovery

Off-road bikepacking in New York's Adirondack Forest Preserve. The Adirondacks offer millions of acres of public land open to bicycles for bikepacking

A New Type of Exoplanet Has a Magma Ocean That's Lasted 5 Billion Years

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our Solar System – one that stores large amounts of sulphur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The magma ocean has lasted 5 billion years so far, while Earth's magma ocean likely lasted only tens of millions of years.

Hoarder is just a beautiful Polish cleaning sim from a former Darkwood dev, until you find the staircase to the very different game beneath

The co-creator of extremely good horror game Darkwood is making a cleaning simulator, but there's a lot more to the experience than clutter.

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I made s'mores from cats and dogs in Lucid Blocks, a version of Minecraft held together by dream logic

Lucid Blocks is a Minecraft-style survival game in which you free-associate bits of eerie ephemera while exploring hypnotic, procedurally generated worlds.

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