All credit for this joke goes to [UPDATE: I DUN GOOF'D] the illustrious Diana Ho, who actually made the joke. [I'm so sorry!] (You can still visit Jess here). It’s a true story except for the part where we conducted a sting operation in the Rose Center for Earth and Space, where astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson sits as director of [...]
I had all sorts of ideas lined up for today. Mostly random stuff: Stories of bathroom etiquette, things to do while bored at an airport, geoengineering strategies, etc. But when two articles about my two favorite denizens of our fair solar system popped up in my feed this week, I had to play to my [...]
The space probe Pioneer 10 is 39 years into its epic 2 million year journey towards the star Aldebaran. It seems to have run out of juice though as we lost contact with it in 2003, while it was 12 billion kilometers from home. Still, not bad for a project that was intended to last [...]
Meant to do this comic a while back when news broke that Pluto may not be so worthless after all. For those who are new to space (aren’t we all?) Pluto was demoted a few years back when astronomers started noticing that there was all sorts of stuff out there, some of it bigger than the notorious [...]
Neil deGrasse Tyson had to make an entire documentary, The Pluto Files*, just to wipe his hands clean of the sad excuse for a former planet. His moon troubles on the other hand** documented here were, I thought, imagined by us at Sci-ence. But I just stumbled upon this clip. Hilarious. I’m going to claim [...]
Admit it. The moon looks like a stupid butt. Hanging in the sky, all pock-marked and tidal locked like a fool. I can hear Audrey yelling at me already, as she’s very protective of the moon, and has objected in the past to my desire to mine it of all its dirty moon rocks and Helium-3. [...]