A new look space station…

Wow… what a difference a few years makes..! The ISS started off looking like this… … and looked like this after a few more missions… Not too long ago it looked like this… And now, finally, after Discovery’s mission, it looks like this… How beautiful is that?! Look what we built! Isn’t that stunning? I [...]

Exoplanets – what’s all the fuss about?

… or should that be, “There’s no OTHER place like home… yet…”? Exo-planets – or “extra-solar planets” to give them their full title – are currently the coolest things in astronomy. Following the launch of NASA’s exo-planet hunting Kepler telescope, many people are now getting very excited about the prospect of finding Earth-sized worlds Out [...]