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Text of the day: “No. This one I’m going to say myself. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became …

Welcome to my weekly theatre newsletter. I’d like to express particular gratitude to those of who’ve written to acknowledge my writing about my current bout of depression; on the one hand, I am more than …

For the first time in five years, it’s time to add a new entry to my comprehensive Mission: Impossible review series. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, the seventh film in the series, was released in …

The Pope of Physics is a 2016 biography of Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), written by Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin. Segre's uncle Emilio was a student of Fermi's in Rome, whereas Hoerlin's father knew Fermi from …

Mission completed. Ingenuity is left alone on Mars after damage to one of its blades renders it inoperable..

If you think about space travel and the means of escaping the confines of the Earth then most people, currently, are likely to think about the new Artemis project and the Space Launch System. That’s …

In my last entry, I talked about how NASA was floating a weird proposal. In essence, the agency wanted to change the New Horizons mission from a Kuiper Belt explorer to doing solely heliophysics. This, …

Some in the space industry have long believed that reusable rockets could tap a large market for high-speed point-to-point transportation. Jeff Foust reports on how the US military is exploring a "Rocket Cargo" program that …

In the ancient world, people tended to see rival nations as ruled by illicit tyrants, while their nation was ruled justly by a king. Two centuries ago when religion was first declining, many predicted that …

launch-licensing process. “They’re looking at a pretty aggressive launch schedule this year,” he said. “They’re looking at, I believe, at least nine launches this year. That’s a lot of launches. If you’re doing modifications and …

I was listening to a favorite symphony this morning, Mendelssohn’s Fourth, the Italian Symphony. The first movement is as sunny as I’ve ever known it to be in Italy, even in Tuscany. I started wondering …

Billions of exoplanets orbit their Suns in our galaxy and more than a few are likely to be habitable. But are any inhabited? The Habitable World Observatory is not being designed and developed to give …

It is showtime for the commercial Odysseus Moon lander, ready to attempt later today a touchdown on the lunar terrain. Following lunar orbit insertion on February 21st, Intuitive Machines notes its lander is in excellent …

It is time to celebrate! Today marks the 94th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, 1930, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The observatory is celebrating with its annual I …

Today was the hottest day (so far) of my visit to Sydney (so far). It was already 30°C by 11am, and got warmer as the day went on, reaching 35°C by 3pm, reaching a peak …