Slow Groove

compiled from photos from the Dawn mission. The grooves running around the "equator" of the asteroid are interesting - kindof lik...

Here's a story from NPR regarding an early Russian cosmonaut who plunged to his death in the early stages of the space race between the ...

Here's an interesting discussion - should a human mission to Mars be a one way trip ? It seems kindof cold to me, but worth reading.

I find this inspiring. If there are other earth-like planets out there the Kepler space telescope will be able to find them . Based on the...

I had C-SPAN on this morning watching James Hansen talk about his book "First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong." As the author ...

Here's a very interesting story regarding a scientific paper projecting the odds of planetary orbit disruption in our solar system. Th...

Look at this close-up of the Mars moon Phobos .

Wow! Look at the image of the night launch of Endeavor from last week.

I find this video very interesting. Based on some web searches I guess it's possible that there's some video artifacts going on her...

I saw this today on the Astronomy Pic of the Day Here's a big version of the image. Photo is from NASA.

I was reading about the Golden Record that was put on the Voyager spacecrafts and found this very interesting. (The record cover is shown ...

Here's an interesting hypothesis on the origin of the asteroid that scientists think struck the Yucatan and killed the dinosaurs at the ...

I've not seen this discussed before, but this post discusses what would happen to you if your body were unprotected in space . Actuall...