Another Shuttle Launch, another gee-whiz article summarizing just how hard it is to get a Space Shuttle off the pad. Sounds like there's one guy who does nothing but wipe sh*t down with alcohol. Engineer-driven, government-financed work at its......

I was musing - as I wont to do - about the different definitions of the word heart. There's the muscle that beats every second or so, which helps circulate the blood, the one that's subject to attack. Then there's the romantic notion of love as represented by a symbol. Related, there's the center of...

The HiRISE camera onboard MRO just took this phenomenal picture of one of the moons of Mars, Deimos: That is so cool! Deimos is the smaller of the two moons, a lumpy ball 15 x 12 x 10 km in size (Phobos is 27 x 22 x 18). Deimos has incredibly weak gravity; its escape velocity is only about 20 km/hr,...

Have you ever looked on with envy at your office mates' brackets and (illegal) betting pools for the NCAA basketball tournament but you don't know the difference between a jump ball and a jump shot? Well, now there's a bracket just for you: March Mission Madness. And it's a showd...

Robotics, Education, FIRST Juha-Pekka Tikka wrote: Most of the teams that gathered at the San Diego Sports Arena last week came from the American Southwest—from places like Flagstaff, AZ, and El Centro, CA. One team came all the way from Pennsylvania. Another came from Brazil. But these teams ...

If you really love rocket launches and new satellites blasting into orbit, here's some free porn. It's the Kepler launch we told you about Thursday. Burns "2,200lbs of propellant per second." Hot!......

Jon Donni of Bad Psychics has posted footage footage of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon on the site TV is Cool. It comes from the 16 mm Data Acquisition Camera mounted in the lunar module. The camera had multiple settings; it was set to normal speed for this occasion, and was later set...

What looks like a large burrito wrapped in tin foil, is designed to find habitable planets, and is sitting—inside a Delta II rocket—on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral AFS, ready for......

The folks working with the fantabulous Cassini Saturn probe just released a very cool image indicating a very cool discovery: a moonlet embedded in Saturn’s G ring. Saturn’s G ring is the second outermost ring (one more ring, E, is outside G, but very wide and diffuse). It’s about ...

We're not talking about a remake or a sequel to the great 2005 film. But even as Joss Whedon was explaining why movies made from DC comics suck won't work, his secret minions at NASA were cooking up a complicated scheme to launch Serenity back into space. Fans of the Firefly TV series and the follow...