Test-Bed Rover is Now Stuck — Which is a Good Thing!
[/caption] Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have intentionally driven their engineering rover into soft soil in a sandbox testbed,…
WiFi in Space Coming Soon?
[/caption] Although current astronauts are Twittering and blogging from space, it's a cumbersome process as the ISS, shuttle and Soyuz…
Where In The Universe #60
Ready for another Where In The Universe Challenge? Here's #60! Take a look and see if you can name where…
Astronomers Discover Medium-Sized Class of Black Holes
[/caption] It's the Goldilocks variety of black holes: not too big and not too small. The new source HLX-1, the light…
Your New Guide to the Inner Galaxy
[/caption] All you galactic hitchhikers take note: a new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way was released…
Mars Will NOT Look as Big as the Full Moon, But You Can Watch it Get Closer
[/caption] For criminy's sake, I just got one of those "Mars as big as the full Moon in August" emails.…
Get Your Own Personal UFO
I'm always amazed at what you can find on You Tube. Type "UFO" in the search panel, and you get…
Faster, Cheaper (and Better?) Way to the Moon
The word this morning from several NASA Twitterers is that the stacking of the new Ares I-X rocket for its…
Fly Me To The Moon…
"Fly me to the Moon and let me play among the stars... Let me see what life is like on..."…
Mercury and Jupiter
[/caption] Let's compare and contrast the two most different planets in the Solar System, Mercury and Jupiter. Of course, you…