A twenty-year odyssey to explore Saturn and its moons will come to end on September 15 when NASA’s Cassini probe will plunge into Saturn’s... Read More

This week NASA released news of an astounding discovery—a solar system that may harbor the right conditions for life as we know it. The... Read More

Humanists are already familiar with the “God of the gaps” theory, which refers to poorly made arguments assuming that if a phenomenon doesn’t have... Read More

Many rejoiced last week when the Moon Express became the first private spaceflight company to receive clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to... Read More

On January 19, 2006, the New Horizons probe set sail from Earth at the record-breaking launch speed of 36,000 miles per hour. Its destination... Read More

When the list of finalists for the Mars One mission was released on February 16, I was relieved to see that my boyfriend wasn’t... Read More

Uranus is a really weird planet in our solar system. Yet, it is also an archetypal planet among the many recently discovered exoplanets (planets... Read More

In March 2009 headlines blared across the front pages of New York’s Daily News that were at once stimulating, scary, and altogether predictable. Dr.... Read More