Tweet This scene recorded from the mast-mounted color camera includes the rover’s own solar arrays and deck in the foreground, providing a sense of sitting on top of the rover and taking in the view. Its release this week coincides with two milestones: Opportunity completing its 3,000th...

Tweet   Voyager 1 is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth, traveling away from both the Earth and the Sun at a speed that corresponds to a greater specific energy than any other probe.As of February 1, 2009, Voyager 1 is about 108.60 AU (16.247 billion km, or 10.095 billion...

Tweet and what you can expect come June 1st (or 8th for US film goers) when it comes to the big Alien and Prometheus tie in. Can you talk about returning to science-fiction after all these years? Science-fiction is a wonderful universe, sorry about the pun, for another much-overused word,...

Tweet The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by...

Tweet Year 2069 – 2123 Mid – Late 21st Century Faster-Than-Light (FTL) technology is discovered and the human race expands into deep space. Space traffic control station established in Antarctica. Android technology developed by Hyperdyne Systems. Estimated from evidence in Alien....

Tweet Donna Summer had 20 singles reach the top 40 in a chart run that lasted from 1975 to 1984. Her reign lasted much longer on the dance-music charts, where she had a No. 1 tune as recently as 2010. But from her classic era, here are 10 of the songs we most loved to love: 1. “Love to...

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Tweet We have the biggest FULL MOON of the year arriving on May 5th, during the Celtic festival of Beltane and known as Wesak Moon which is an auspicious day that celebrates the birth, life and death of the Buddha and Christ Consciousness. “This Scorpio Full Moon is also called the Wesak...

Tweet Maybe we’re just too dumb,” Nobel laureate physicist David Gross mused in a lecture at Caltech two weeks ago. When someone of his level wonders whether the unification of physics will always be beyond mortal minds, it gets you worried. Since his lecture, I’ve been learning about...