Category Archives: Science

NASA’s robotic rover Spirit is bogged down on the Red Planet in a place the rover team named after the ancient city.

Is it any wonder that scientists who are required to accept the current scientific orthodoxy in order to receive continued funding, then later agree with that orthodoxy when surveyed? Well, duh.

As the aluminum ignites, water molecules provide oxygen and hydrogen to fuel the combustion until all of the powder is burned.

The Milky Way’s neighbourhood may be teeming with invisible galaxies, one of which appears to be crashing into our own.

Milky Way Map

Magellanic Clouds Merging

A Sense of Scale

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs.

Sabotaged?

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The phase of the Moon will be new, setting the stage for what could be one of the best Leonid showers in years.

Fluxtimator

2009 Meteor Showers

When Europe’s comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth on Nov. 13 for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite’s change in orbital energy.

Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars.

Mercury