If you allow enough 20-ton Chinese rocket stages fall to Earth in an uncontrolled fashion, it is...
Michael Siegel
Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.
A perfect illustration of what Berenson and others have been doing: making wild COVID claims contradicted by...
Michael Collins was such a professional, he wrote a 117-page manual to deal with every possible rendezvous...
Putting the hysterics of the Daily Mail, Starnes, Boebert, and their followers aside, beef isn't going anywhere.
If everything goes well with NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter, we've just gotten a huge force multiplier...
It's fashionable to say, "believe the science". But science is not a belief; it's a series...
Suspending the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine right now seems an over-reaction that is likely...
Voting isn't about preferences; it's about accountability. But therein lies my disagreement that we should have "fewer...
Knowing the Standard Model doesn't explain everything...is everything: gravity, dark energy and ultimately the fate of the...
To get the giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal unstuck, engineers needed the stars to align....
Other failures-from the Administration, from China, from the WHO, and from our own individual selves-loom much larger...
What’s really amazing about The Voyagers is that not only are they functioning after 40 years, but...
When you boil the Asian massage shootings down to misogyny & hatred of sex workers, there's plenty...
To stop distribution based on a vaccine side effect that is rare, unproven, & statistically insignificant is...
This amazing feat of engineering is going to make a huge number of breakthroughs on some of...
I do think phthalates may be overstaying their welcome. But I am very dubious that they...
We can't wave a magic wand and turn the United States into Denmark. We have to build...
It has been almost exactly one year since I first wrote about the Coronavirus. It has been...
What you're seeing is a stunning feat of engineering and human endeavor. Let's hope the Perseverance video...
I will never not be amazed that human beings can do things like Perseverance. The vision, the...
