It’s been a flood, a flood I tell you! The last week has been a full-on space news week, especially with the landing of Phoenix on Mars on Sunday. But not only this, we’ve had news from all over the globe and it’s been hard to keep up. Over at the Universe Today we’ve been trying...

Another week, another Carnival! And this week it is being hosted over at the Lifeboat Foundation Blog, an organization with a focus on safeguarding the future of mankind. A superb site with some great concepts. This weeks Carnival, again, has a large range of subjects, focusing (obviously) on the Sunday...

Its images like these that restore your faith in mankind’s exploration spirit. After the flawless entry, descent and landing of Phoenix on Sunday night at 16:54 PST (00:54 GMT Monday morning), I took some time to contemplate the enormity of what the amazing team at NASA and the University of Arizona...

Goonhilly is an area of the Lizard Peninsula in the British county of Cornwall. This region has been the destination of countless family holidays in my lifetime, and even today the Cornish landscape provides plenty of surprises for me. One landmark in particular has been the focus of my interest for...

(Update: “2012: No Planet X” hit the front page of Digg.com this morning. It doesn’t appear to have the accelerated popularity of the first “No Doomsday in 2012″, but the response is still fantastic. Thanks to everybody for your support. Join the fun over at Digg!) After...

This week’s outing to all things spacey is being hosted over at Catholic Sensibility. Our blogger Neil presents a great and informative edition this week, with a space habitation (or space real estate) theme. I put my 2c-worth into the ring with my adventures in Cornwall last week. Visiting the...

(Update: It seems people agree with my 2012 article and it hit the front page of Digg just before 1am (GMT) on Wednesday. Join the fun!) The Mayan Prophecy seems to predict the end of the world, or at least a large potion of humans on Earth. As a race we appear to have side-stepped many previous doomsday...

On our travels last week, we decided to stop off at the Eden Project down near St. Austell in Cornwall for a few hours. It’s been one of those places I’ve always wanted to visit, especially since my involvement with the Mars Foundation. Well known in the UK for its “Biomes” –...

This week’s Carnival of Space was held over at Altair VI, David S. F. Portree’s space blog. It is a superb read at the best of times and he’s done a wonderful job with the 54th edition. I entered a small article about the recent observations of the STEREO solar observatory with a nice...

After a week on the Lizard in Cornwall, I’m back from an inspiring trip. It was great to spend some quality time with Mum and Colette and a great opportunity to take in the stunning sights of this wonderful part of the world. Naturally I spent some time finding any chance to research some stories...