My Favourite Picture by Andy Bollan (article).
I love this picture. I first saw it on NASA’a APOD website http://apod.nasa.gov/apod roughly 10 years ago. It looks like
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Rare by Keith Veronese (book review).
‘Rare’ has nothing to do with steaks or seldom seen animals but something far more important that we all use
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Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual: 1967 Onwards (All Models) by David Baker (book review).
If you thought that the ‘Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual’ was solely, as astronaut Helen Sharman calls ‘a workhorse’, about the
Read MoreUp close and personal with Pluto.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several
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Intelligence Unbound: The Future Of Uploaded And Machine Minds edited by Russell Blackford and Damien Broderick (book review).
Occasionally, I will include the sub-title with a book’s main title. This is the case with the rather extended ‘Intelligence
Read MoreNASA’s empire of a thousand worlds.
How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000
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Galaxy-frying X-ray burst from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole core.
Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky
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It Started With Copernicus: Vital Questions About Science by Keith Parsons (book review).
On his deathbed in 1543, Nicholas Copernicus arranged for his book, ‘De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium’ or, in English, ‘On The
Read MoreNASA Rover discovers active Organics on Mars!
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and
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There and back again . . . NASA’s Orion flies.
NASA marked a major milestone Friday on its journey to Mars as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to
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