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The Phoenix has landed

Monday, May 26, 2008 10:04 PM
NASA's Phoenix mission to the polar regions of Mars landed flawlessly this weekend. The mission's goal is to drill beneath the frozen surface and extract samples of ice and soil, which the lander can then subject to a battery of chemical tests. This is
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More cool stuff from TED: Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:20 PM
This TED video of Roy Gould and Curtis Wong highlights Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope , which is a mashup of the best images of the universe from all the world's telescopes, blended together in an interactive, zoomable, and feature-rich interface. It
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The journey back to Saturn

Friday, February 08, 2008 9:40 PM
At last year's TED conference, one of the presenters was Carolyn Porco, the leader of the Imaging Team on the Cassini mission to Saturn. Her presentation focused mainly on a tour of the discoveries regarding two of Saturn's most intriguing moons: Titan
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Sights in the night sky

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:07 PM
Holy crap! I just saw the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Atlantis fly directly overhead. The shuttle was first, then the space station followed quickly behind. They grew in brightness as they rose above the western horizon, and by the
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Orbiting hotels

Monday, May 28, 2007 10:57 PM
Richard Branson is undeniably a gadfly, but this is just plain awesome , in the most awesome sense of the word: Virgin Galactic's chief operating officer revealed Friday at the National Space Society's 26th Annual International Space Development Conference
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Latest method for investigating Mars: tire skidmarks

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:28 PM
I haven't blogged much about Spirit and Opportunity , the two little Mars rovers that could, although I'm completely obsessed with them. They were only planned to last three months, yet they're still chugging along after three years. Practically every
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Freakin' cool: the James Webb Space Telescope

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:51 PM
Partly as a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA is currently designing the James Webb Space Telescope . If all goes well, it will launch in 2013. Although I personally think they should keep funding the Hubble as long as it can feasibly continue
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