An artist’s rendition of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its upcoming encounter with Jupiter. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
New Horizons has been back in the news again over the last week in advance of its February rendezvous with Jupiter. As noted in their press release:
The fastest spacecraft ever launched, […]

Bloody Vikings!
I’d come across a news item yesterday which irritated me — well, it’s not really new anyway, but I’ll explain.
In 1976, NASA’s Viking Project - an ambitious undertaking destined for Mars - made history when the Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers safely touched down on the Martian surface. They were the first spacecraft […]

Bad media alert!

Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
This press release from last week (which I posted about here) details the Hubble Telescope’s discovery of two new Uranian moons as well as a pair of newly observed rings around the distant gas giant. Unfortunately, a syndicated news story has circulated and been reproduced without […]