Ian O'Neill
NASA Aids California Wildfire Fight: An Opinion from the Smoke
[/caption] This morning at 5:30am, I woke up to the smell of smoke. It's one of those horrid, gut-wrenching feelings…
Man Facing 15 Year Jail Term for Ripping Off NASA, Endangering Shuttle Crew
[/caption]Oh dear. This is a tough lesson in "don't sell NASA defective goods!" It would appear that even NASA suffers…
Mars Rover Contact Reestablished, Spirit is Alive!
[/caption]Just when we were growing concerned that we might be losing two Mars surface missions within a week of each…
Studying the Life Cycle of Butterflies and Spiders in Space
[/caption] Space biology experiments have just arrived in the classroom. With a focus on hundreds of K-12 students, a University…
Plutoid Eris is Changing… But We Don’t Know Why
[/caption]Eris, the largest dwarf planet beyond Neptune, is currently at its furthest point in its orbit from the Sun (an…
First Images of Asteroid 2008 TC3 Impact Aftermath
[/caption] A month after asteroid 2008 TC3 hit the Earth's atmosphere, the first ground-based image of the event has surfaced…
Declaration of Human Rights to be Sent to Space Station
[/caption]On December 10th 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in…
Ion Shield for Interplanetary Spaceships Now a Reality
[/caption]British scientists invent "mini-magnetosphere" to protect astronauts during solar storms. Space travel during a solar storm just became a little…
Forget the LHC, the Aging Tevatron May Have Uncovered Some New Physics
[/caption]If you thought any quantum discoveries would have to wait until the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched back on…
Can Cassini be Used to Detect Life on Enceladus?
[/caption]Having just returned the most detailed images yet of Saturn's 500km-wide moon Enceladus, it is little wonder scientists are excited…