And an interesting magazine, Brian. Thanks for this.

Death by black hole spaghettification is too good for these people.

Saturday night watching Pointless Celebrities and the woman (Yvette someone) who was the youngest-ever Blue Peter presenter told a story about the tim...

Well if you will use some secondhand Russian engines from the 60’s what do you expect! The irony is, the Russians had a successful cargo launch hours...

The Horizon Guide to Mars tonight. BBC4, 8pm. A repeat, but better than Emmerdale!

Given the forensic analysis on this forum we could do CSI Astronomy...

we can tolerate failures by building success into the development path I've cracked it: what it means is that Nasa has to pay them anyway ;)

HA! I'd forgotten that quote, Brian, and also that it was John Glenn's - it's a classic. I recall seeing a very good TV movie recently about Feynman ...

But why ride a motorcycle through Rome when talking about the alignment of the planets that enabled the Voyager missions? Why even mention Cepheid var...

While I've seen that kind of effect on plane windows before, the real trompe l'oeil is, as you say, the fact that it only appears under the clouds. S...

Which reminds me: my "Can-o-Worms" can-opener has just been sharpened, so... Is it me or does Brian Cox take an awful long time to say not very much...

Tragically, I followed the first part of the occultation 'live' via Stellarium. I know, I know: I really should get out more.

One huge movie to look out for on November 7th is Interstellar, directed by Christopher “Dark Knight” Nolan. Just seen this - the black hole "science"...

And this from Space.com