The Aram Chaos region of Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA) There’s a military operation on Mars! How do we know this? Psychics — or “military grade remote viewers” as they like to be called — “saw” it, and...

That's no space rock: The Israeli 'meteorite' that never was (Ilan Lilush, Tel Aviv Police). UPDATE (April 25): The unidentified combustible object has been identified as being “man made” rather than anything cosmic in origin. “It is definitely not a meteor and not a different natural...

The Habitation Extension Module (HEM) proposed by UK engineers (University of Bristol) The UK has started its own space agency (at long last) and the agency has a logo. The latter is the big news here. At a time when motivation for manned spaceflight by NASA is dwindling and yet private industry is forcing...

The Project M android... haven't I seen you somewhere before? As you know, I’m highly dubious about this “Project M” that has just surfaced on the intertoobs (I strongly suspect it’s a hoax). But doubts aside, I kept looking at that android throwing stones on the lunar surface...

Source: Graph Jam I mean, is the spaghettification of John Cusack using awesome 2012 doomsday graphics too much to ask? Instead of an improbable alien spacecraft appearing over the White House, why not use a black hole, producing so much tidal shear that it rips the building apart brick-by brick? Oh,...

…otherwise some Twilight fan site might win. And that would be bad. I don’t really get the whole smoldering vampire craze that’s going on at the moment, but the movies New Moon and Twilight certainly have fans going nutty about fangs and moody teenagers. I actually saw Twilight the...

Released in December 2009, Kate McAlpine (a.k.a. AlpineKat) put together the rather fun “Black Hole Rap” in an effort to trivialize the disinformation being peddled about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). You might remember AlpineKat from the hugely popular (and deliciously geeky) “LHC...

There I was idly checking out SpaceWeather.com, seeing whether there was any sunspot activity going on… and then I saw this. At first, I assumed it was a highly symmetrical sunspot, but no! It was something far more sinister, but I didn’t recognize the hallmark signature. Neal Wiser saw it...

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is suffering from amnesia, again. This is hardly surprising if we consider that the lifespan of Spirit should have been 3 months, the fact that it has lasted 69 months (so far) is nothing short of miraculous. In rover-mission-lifetime years, doesn’t...

“25 billion of your biggest bombs please. I’ll pay credit, thanks!” "I love the smell of venting volatiles in the morning..." The Pluto debate frustrates me, as you may have noticed. It’s not that I have particularly strong views about whether it should be called a planet...