Selfies in Space (2/22/2015)
I’m happy to report that yesterday’s spacewalk went off without a hitch, and that American astronauts Barry Wilmore (Commander) and Terry Virts (Flight Engineer) are now safely back inside the International Space …
Latest on the Solar System (2/19/2015)
It was barely two months ago that I cited the existence of microbes beneath the ice of Antarctica as one of the biggest science stories of 2014, and now the story is …
Ancient Planets (2/5/2015)
Another day, another major development in humanity’s rapidly advancing search for Life elsewhere in the universe. You’ll recall from previous posts that scientists have discovered more than 1,700 exoplanets orbiting distant stars …