Richard Feynman was an American physicist who contributed greatly to the field of quantum mechanics, eventually winning a Nobel Prize for h...

 A fascinating astronomy image today! Behold: NASA explains : A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA...

 It's been a while since I posted an update on books I've been reading, so here's a bit of catch-up! ::  Edge of Sundown  is a n...

 I saw this on the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Flickr stream . It's a cool illustration of the formation of a planet. All tha...

 A few more books I've read of late: ::  I can't possibly keep up with the eternal flood of new books that is Star Wars  publishing,...

 It's amazing what stories stay with us through the years. Some stick for obvious reasons, but some do not; some just stick all on their...

That may be my favorite quote from the movie Apollo 13 . Jim Lovell says it to his wife as they relax in their backyard, after all of their ...

Here's what people look like when they've just landed a spaceship on Mars. This is a hell of a thing. Well done , NASA!

That is all. The Auroras of Jupiter, captured by Hubble.

So a few weeks ago I was hiking with The Dee-oh-gee (at Sprague Brook Park in Colden, NY) and I happened across this strange-looking plant: ...

Venus and Jupiter, as seen from out back at where I work. Such a wonderful universe!

That is all. (Watch it in fullscreen if you can.)

Now here's something I didn't know octopi could do....

Carl Sagan was born this day, in 1934. Today we honor him, and the Cosmos from which he sprang! And this old post of m...

This weekend The Wife and I made our annual getaway to the Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival, and we had a great time as always...although the f...

EDIT: Video link replaced. The Neil DeGrasse Tyson/Ann Druyan helmed sequel to COSMOS , which airs in 2014, has a trailer. I love everyth...

As much as I mentally inhabit the world of a science fiction future where spaceships are everywhere, there's something to be said for l...

Astronauts returning from the ISS looks like this: Well done! (Sorry for the lack of a whole lot of content this week.....

...here are some photos, from a NASA FLickr stream, of an actual real spaceship launch. Specifically, the Antares rocket, developed by a pr...