NOW we know why Kahn Noonia Singh always hated being referred to as an ‘ape’.

I keep asking, but still, no giant space amoebas

Wow – neat idea. The atmosphere of our planet naturally refracts light. If Earth’s atmosphere can be used, why not Jupiter’s?

Watch a video of a touchdown on an asteroid

A deep probing of Europa may reveal conditions suitable for life

It took its time getting there, but a landing will be attempted in September

See the solar wind in action

So, do we name it Mesklin to honor Hal Clement, or Jinx, to honor Larry Niven?

It shouldn’t be long now before we find an Earth analogue

Sounds like this is right at the upper limit for planet size; it’s probably got a hell of a moon system

By the light, by the light of the buttery moon…..

That’s the cool thing about having raw data: new techniques can reveal ever more information

If you are looking for strange objects orbiting distant suns, this may be the answer

The differene between the Earth and the Moon is that people live on Earth – for now.

I think someone wrote a novel about this sometime back in the 70s…talk about science fiction becoming reality

Older than the origin of the universe!?! That sure changes things.

THAT explains why the actors on the bridge of the Enterprise were rocking back and forth

An exoplanet may mirror Jupiter’s moon formation

Power for cubesats!

This is not a Goldilocks situation: one star is too cold, the other too hot and nothing about them is ‘just right’.

Cool. Imagine what else will be floating around in orbit eventually!

You know, by the time we actually get around to terraforming Mars, the methodology will not be ANY of the ways already proposed

Of on a Comet…

Plans include a comfy SUV-like rover.

Man, our robot overlords just keep on getting smarter and smarter

Well, if Stephen Colbert can understand this explanation, I think the rest of us can handle it too

Wow. Too bad spaceships can’t slingshot off of that vortex

But don’t we have enough problems right here on Earth? 🙂

Einstein’s Cosmological Constant…and here I thought his biggest mistake was not combing his hair

But…but what about the space amoebas?