Star Wars Day is May 4th so you are probably wondering how you would build deflector shields in case the US government is worried about turtles on its former nuclear testing grounds and thinks your…

Jimmy Duncan - A Prescient Politician John James "Jimmy" Duncan is a former Chairman of the United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation. In the United States, the "Safe Aviation…

Sentinel-1A lifted off on a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guyana at 9:02 PM GMT today. Sentinel-1A has been at the launch site since the end of February and has been through…

Until now, rings of material in a disc have been associated with giant planets like Saturn. Chariklo, located two billion kilometers away, between Saturn and Uranus,  is the first miniature…

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) mission studies the chromosphere, that layer of the sun's atmosphere that is key to regulating the flow of energy and material as they travel from the…

ESA, the European Space Agency, is my favorite space organization. Yeah, I said it. The guy whose favorite movie is "The Right Stuff" and who could write a whole book on the Mercury program prefers…

Sometimes you don't need fancy modern compounds - primitive cavemen had the answer. Burnt bone charcoal, used in prehistoric cave paintings, will be applied to the ESA’s Solar Orbiter titanium…

When President Obama took office in 2009, among his first priorities was to cancel the Constellation program, mostly because it had George Bush's name on it, though that was behind a veneer of 'too…

It looks more like a painting than a real-life event but this image from the Cassini orbiter shows the progress of a massive storm on Saturn.  The head of the storm is towards the left of the…

Rosetta is currently chasing down Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will become the first space mission to rendezvous with a comet, the first to attempt a landing on a comet’s surface and the…