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Roving Mars for 5 years and counting
Dusty Solar Panels on Spirit/Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell The Mars rovers may not make the news as much as they once did, but Spirit and Opportunity are still the little Mars missions that could....
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Hubble mania
The repair of the Hubble telescope has been big NASA news, but I’m impressed with the way it’s been covered in the Twitterverse through spacewalk updates, astronaut tweets in orbit, and general...
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More Mars Rovers
The rovers are still my favorite NASA mission, for reasons I’ve already written about. Even if the rovers quit tomorrow, the rover science team of Steve Squyres of Cornell and company would still have...
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Molecule of the Week: Hydrogen
Though hydrogen is the smallest atom and is perched at the top left of the periodic table, hydrogen in nature exists as two atoms hooked together. Hydrogen hit the news this weekend as a leak led NASA...
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Hubble: still amazing after all these years
NGC 6302 (Butterfly Nebula, Bug Nebula) Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team I love big, beautiful Hubble pictures, and these most recent ones are no exception. When I was working on the new...
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Planning Spirit's escape
Spirit rover's wheels move a little; Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Back to my favorite space topic– the Spirit rover. I’m fascinated by the meticulous science and engineering effort going into an obvious...
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No more driving for Spirit
Artist's rendering of Spirit; Courtesy: NASA/JPL-CaltechIt’s the end of an era. The rover team has decided to leave Spirit where she is. Other than getting the solar panels in better position to catch...
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Mars video interlude
Mars, the many missions to study the planet, and the question: is there or was there some kind of life on the planet? When I was working on a Mars-related story recently, a researcher pointed me to...
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A Glimpse of our Space Future
Sputnik 1, the little Russian satellite that launched the space race in 1957 The American Museum of Natural History‘s new exhibit, Beyond Planet Earth, which opened last Saturday through August 12,...
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