Take a look at these photos of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft, hosted on the New York Times website: Saturn Up Close Photo number 13 s...

With the Seattle Public Library system shut down for a week, Bede and I are not sure who brought home The Empress of Mars by Kage Baker, bu...

YA/Teen writer Justine Larbalestier's blog post Very Wrong Questions (which links to her fellow writer Ally Carter's blog post The ...

Photo-illustration from Siennasoft.com From the Associated Press: Planetary triple play this weekend Stargazers will get a rare triple plane...

Headline: Astronauts Allowed Extra Hour of Sleep Bede asked, "Where can we sign up to become astronauts?"

At three years of age, Lucia is already asking the hard questions of life. Bede reports: Planets

Headline: Pluto loses status as planet I should've realized this IAU resolution was coming. A couple of weeks ago, when Lucia and I went...

After discovering the Spamusement link on Galetea's blog, I decided to give my junk mail folder a chance to prove its creative potenti...

From the New York Times: Pluto Dodges a Bullet If the new definition of the word "planet" extends to objects beyond Pluto that are...

Lucia keeps asking me for a song about planets.* I have been working on a composition of my own, but due to my overwhelming affection for th...

Here is the edited, altered version of the chapter I posted a few days ago and then took down because it wasn't flowing the way I wanted...

Part I Part II Page from History Don't Talk of Mars Planet Shaping Invasion Interlude GLOSSARY Celestronaut: ISAP astronaut/cosmonaut/e...

[My journal of alien contact] I’ve already said I’m not supposed to talk about the Mars terraforming project . Zeke, however, was able to ta...

Associated Press 13:41 PM Mar, 19, 2006 EST: Galactic Tourists Pony Up To Ride Two years after the first privately financed space flight jum...

Based on my recent posts about alien contact, I thought this planet personality quiz might be a pleasant diversion. Thanks to Spinning Girl ...

Flash forward from A Page From History ... [My journal of alien contact] Most of us didn’t know what the Sartereans actually looked like. Th...

As a child, when I first learned about the Voyager Golden Record , I was both excited at the thought of an alien species actually intercept...

I had thought it was Orson Scott Card who had created the idea of the ansible (my less-eloquent "instantaneous communicator"). I ...

[My journal of alien contact] Before I tell you more of the present , it might be helpful to view a page from the past. My grandparents were...

[My journal of alien contact] This post continues the story I started two days ago with Instantaneous Communication: Part I . I'm making...