Could Martian Soil Grow Plants?

Images attribution: By KVDP (talk).KVDP at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons A small plastic greenhouse used for cuttings, to keep the cuttings humid while rooting ... Continue Reading →

Astrophysicist Tyson Talks about Back to Future

Image: Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson visited with Goddard’s Space Flight Center Director Chris Scolese and the James Webb Space Telescope team at Goddard in Greenbelt, Md. on June ... Continue Reading →

Infographic Depicts Pluto’s Complexity

NASA infographic shows Pluto’s terrain, atmosphere A complex picture has emerged with many unexpected features on Pluto.  The infographic below tells some of the story. One ... Continue Reading →

How Does a Gravity Assist Affect a Spacecraft?

What Gives the Most Speed to a Spacecraft Flyby? It’s the Gravity Assist. We use rockets to boost spacecraft beyond the Earth’s gravity and atmosphere. We use solar panels for ... Continue Reading →

Thinking of a prototype? Why not 3D print it?

The above is an image of a design provided by NASA for 3-d printing of the New Horizons space vehicle which flew by Pluto in 2015. For the link to this design, see page 9 of this ... Continue Reading →

Nine Years after Launch, New Horizons Flies By Pluto

PLUTO!!! July 13, 2015 This image of the dwarf planet was captured from New Horizons on July 13, 2015, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 766,000 ... Continue Reading →

SpaceX Mission Fails, Russia Offers Backup, and Vice Versa

VIDEO 3 min. 52 sec. Cape Canaveral: SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes During the 7th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-7) Launch Watch this live video of the June 28, 2015 SpaceX Mission ... Continue Reading →

The Brain-Computer Interface in 2015: Are We Telepathic Yet?

Photo attribution-top: By Anders Sandberg from Oxford, UK (BCI) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons *Photo attribution: See below. Paraplegic ... Continue Reading →

Are Light Fields Revolutionizing Photography?

Image: Light-field photography at Ars Electronica 2013 at Brucknerhaus, Linz, Upper Austria. The original file on Wikimedia states that it has annotations, and that one could move ... Continue Reading →

What Actually Happened in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius Erupted in 79 A.D.?

The above postcard image, circa 1900, is of the archeological dig at Pompeii, Italy. The city remained completely buried in ash for approximately 1,500 years, after an eruption in ... Continue Reading →