Most 8 year olds can reel off the names of the planets with ease. These 8 names (they might have trouble remembering Laurele's 13 or 58) are easily recognised, even the ones of planets unknown in antiquity such as Uranus and Neptune. Since the first...

While I wait for some code to run, I couldn't help notice the <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q="Dear+Nasa"+OR+nasa">outcry on Twitter about the imminent impact of LCROSS with the Moon. People seem confused, angry and upset. LCROSS is a...

First light. Those two words have been echoing around my head for the past few weeks but reached a crescendo today with the release of the first images from the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft. In astronomy, first light is that special...

I'm not sure if I have any regular readers left. This blog certainly hasn't been regular over the past months so if you're still here then thanks for sticking it out (even if it is just because you couldn't be bothered to remove me from your RSS...