Jul 31 2015
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There’s probably nothing much more exciting for a space artist than to have an entirely new world to play with! I’ve…
Ron Miller
Spaceart
Jun 25 2015
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The history of the modern exploration of the solar system has been a catalog of surprises. No matter what…
Mar 1 2015
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As much as we love The Muppets, in 1963 a pair of NASA engineers entertained the idea of sending real pigs into…
Feb 8 2015
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NASA's 2016 budget was approved by President Obama last week, and it contained some exciting goals: "A robust…
Jan 15 2015
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Science fiction has long been looked to as a source of prophecy...but why? Perhaps because, out of necessity, its…
Dec 21 2014
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These parlor tricks were published by Hugo Gernsback back in the 1920s, but they've been around forever.
Oct 26 2014
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In the heyday of America's love affair with space travel, there were few products that weren't tied in somehow to…
Oct 18 2014
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The prospect of future tourists gawking at the ice fountains of Enceladus, the volcanoes of Io and the grand canyons…
Oct 2 2014
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A report from the Jet Propulsion laboratory today reveals that in May 2012, while Titan's southern hemisphere was…
Sep 28 2014
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Sep 27 2014
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Once upon a time it was quite popular to depict the human body in terms of machinery. The idea was that all of the…
Sep 20 2014
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In 1951 Collier's magazine devoted an entire issue to reporting an imagined version of World War III. The magazine…
Sep 14 2014
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People like to make lists of things, especially lists of superlatives: the best, fastest, oldest, largest, heaviest…
Aug 31 2014
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Caught up in the let's-attach-a-rocket-to-everything-and-see-what-happens fad in Germany in the late 1920s, one…
Aug 30 2014
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In a study published in the latest issue of Science, astronomers led by graduate student Huan Meng, of the…
Jul 23 2014
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Most histories of that wonderful subgenre of science fiction called "steampunk" list Ronald Clark's 1967 novel,Queen…
Jul 20 2014
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It’s a surprise to many to learn that Andy Griffith was not only the beloved, homespun sheriff of Mayberry, he was…
Jul 12 2014
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The American Civil War was probably the first truly modern war in that technology was so important. The military use…
Jul 7 2014
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If you are sick of all those safely precautions required to set off fireworks these days, then maybe you'd have…
Jun 20 2014
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One of the results of Earth having a tilted axis is, for better or worse, the seasons. On June 21st, we'll be at one…