I love today’s XKCD comic. It depicts Sagan-Man, a superhero who possesses Carl Sagan’s ability to communicate science to the world. In this case Sagan-Man uses his inspirational tone to stop a thief in the act. Unfortunately, I was too young to experience Carl Sagan when he was in his prime years presenting Cosmos, and it [...]Post from: Astroen […]

After collecting myself from the bout of giggles when I read The Bloggess’ post about the rather bizarre auto-suggestion in Google Search, I was ready to find some more. (Awesome, the old classic, “french military victories” followed by clicking the “I’m feeling lucky” button is still working.) But what’s this? @Mact […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) formally transferred ownership of the Tranquility habitable manned module over to NASA at a commemorative handoff ceremony inside the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, November 20. Tranquility is the last element of a barter agreement between ESA and NASA for station hardware. Inc […]

Did Mars once have a vast network of river valleys – "canals" if you will – and an ocean that covered most of the planet's northern hemisphere? A new computer-generated map of the Red Planet provides a more detailed look at the valley networks on Mars, and indicates the networks are more than twice [...]

Just in case you didn't know (perhaps you live in a cave with no wi-fi coverage), Discovery News has been re-branded, re-designed and re-launched. It's been re-everythinged! The only thing you will see that is familiar is the awesome reported news articles, outstanding slide shows, incredible video and awesome-outstanding-incredible blogging. Prett […]

Wow, today has been an eventful day! This afternoon I had a great interview with Dr. Mike Brown (a.k.a. the planet hunter who killed Pluto by discovering Eris) all about hate-mail, Pluto, Planet X and Nibiru. The full interview transcript will be online sometime during Wednesday, so be sure to check back soon. Before I could catch a breath, I had to run to D […]

As the Station Fire threatens the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, Ian O'Neill manages to chat with astronomer Scott Kardel.

WR 104 is a star that is currently undergoing the violent throes of massive star death.