Saving Our Science Heritage

In recent months we’ve seen the historic flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons probe, a remarkable achievement in space exploration that has produced some amazing imagery and scientific information. A little known fact: the probe carried with it a small portion of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who first discovered the planet […]

Big Science Stories For 2015

No, I’ve not gone into the predictions business. But there are some fantastic firsts coming up in 2015 that will provide a fascinating insight into how our solar system is put together and give us views on things we’ve never seen before. In March (specially arranged by NASA to coincide with my birthday…) the Dawn […]