Ian O'Neill
UFOs, a Green Venus and Sun Gobbling? Isn’t That Going a Little Far, Mrs Hatoyama?
[/caption]"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus." This might…
NASA is Running Out of Plutonium
[/caption]Decommissioning nuclear weapons is a good thing. But when our boldest space missions depend on surplus nuclear isotopes derived from…
Did a Russian Home Get Hit by Progress Space Debris?
[/caption]The Russian supply ship for the International Space Station successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:37 pm EDT…
Panspermia Flower Power
Panspermia is a hypothesis that suggests life isn't an Earth-only affair. The seeds of life may have spread throughout the…
2009 HC82: A Burnt-Out, Eccentric and Backward Near-Earth Asteroid
The Solar System often throws up surprises for astronomers, but the recent discovery of a 2- to 3-km wide asteroid…
Were the Dinosaurs Really Wiped Out by an Asteroid? Possibly Not (Update)
In 1979, the huge Chicxulub crater, measuring about 180 km (112 miles) in diameter, was discovered on the northern Yucatan…
Did Dark Matter Annihilate Our Early Universe?
[/caption] 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe cooled from being a hot soup of plasma, to a temperature…
Mars Rover Spirit is Rolling Again After Memory Problems
[/caption] It's been a worrying month for the health of Mars Expedition Rover Spirit. Two weeks ago, the embattled robot…
Hubble Discovers a Strange Collection of White Dwarf… Dwarfs
[/caption] A collection of very odd white dwarfs have been discovered in a local globular cluster. Twenty-four white dwarfs (18…
The Blurry Summit of Mars’ Pavonis Mons
...and yes, the picture is in focus. [/caption] This strange image was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment…