Thanks everyone who came out on Saturday. Sorry I wasn't there at the end (even though I was there at the end... or something). And thanks everyone who hung out on Sunday! A perfect lazy day to compliment the previous insanity ( Read more... )

Listening to NPR, where the guest brought up a series of Mars mission plans that sounded very familiar to those of Mars Society. Then he dropped Robert Zubrin's name, and all became clear ( Read more... )

Something aremisasling posted about a year ago got me all excited about the possibility of finding Earth-like worlds. The detection systems used had apparently made it almost impossible to find anything much smaller than gas giants -- of which there are many orbiting the stars in our own system's immediate vicinity. I was under the impression that the ( Read more... )

Bad Dog.

What does this mean? Probably nothing. Pluto's still there. As well as its three (count 'em, three) moons ( Read more... )

Scientists discover most extra-solar Earth-like planet yetHOYL ( Read more... )

Plutonium or Bust!

NASA is launching a probe that will embark on a nine-year journey to Pluto. Its power source? Plutonium. 24 pounds of it, to be exact. Between the natural radioactive decay and a slingshot around Jupiter (shaving five years off the trip, so the article says), this will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched ( Read more... )