The sky is big. If you want to map it in detail, you have to think big, too. Astronomers are good at that. A massive international...
Happy new year! If you're a Martian! When it's Sunday, February 7, 2021 on Earth it will be January 1, 36 (yes, just 36) on Mars:...
With SpaceX continuing the testing phase for Starship and enthusiasm spreading for an actual crewed flight to Mars, an interesting magnetic thrust rocket concept...
I have a couple of updates on some news stories I've been following for quite some time, both of which caused quite a stir when first...
Ah, what might have been. Back in the days when Pierce Brosnan was the face of Special Agent 007 and Rare was a powerhouse studio for...
Even though Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin described the dry, barren regolith of the Moon as "magnificent desolation," it turns out that our lone satellite actually...
We truly live on the cusp of a remarkable new era of space exploration, with SpaceX rockets rumbling almost every month and international probes spread out around...
This deserves a "whoa": Astronomers have found a sextuple (six-) star system where, if you watch it for a few days, every star in it will...
Swirls of clouds and haze on Jupiter and Saturn have become so iconic, that look has become a thing for all gas giants, to the point...
The gargantuan era of the dinosaurs, when mammoth creatures roamed the wilds of primeval Earth, was a time populated by numerous behemoth beasts but few larger...