People want to see awesome stuff. That's the main idea behind this blog, and the interpretation of a recent report on people's decisions to share New York Times articles with friends (via Rycharde…

ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta has swung by Earth for the third and final time, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-…

Sprit and Opportunity: The U.S's Robot on Mars!! You've Had heard about 'Sprit and Opportunity' the twin robots that landed on Mars in 2004 by the Delta-2 Rocket. Sprit and Opportunity helped…

Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (Caltech, to you)  says a paradigm shift in planetary exploration is coming - and it involves…

Today, while thrift-shopping, I found an important component for our satellite building. Yes, it's a rolling trunk, and I'll admit it's not the most exciting science prop.  But there are four…

Antares DLR-H2 of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) became, on 7 July 2009, the world's first piloted aircraft to take off on power from fuel cells. The propulsion system…

A new type of rocket propellant made from a mixture of water and nanoscale aluminum powder could be manufactured on the moon or Mars or any place remnant ice may exist, say researchers from NASA, the…

After wrapping up the minutiae of funding, we're finally entering the lab for Project Calliope.  Next week, I get to build a model ionosphere and replicate a spinning satellite to test what sort…

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18th, 2009,  will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), developed by…

Everyone is thorough about checklists of items they want to take on long trips - fewer people worry about things they are supposed to leave behind.  But forty years ago, as the Apollo 11…