Richard Garriott, creator of such games as Ultima and more regrettably Tabula Rasa, is launching a futile mission in October to bring 40 samples of DNA with him to the International Space Station.
Why is this mission futile? Read on!

We can now rejoice!
How many SF books of the past are now way more plausible? Is there going to be a sudden rise in Mars SF speculation?
Also, if you do want to read a book about Mars, let me recommend Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis, and NOT Mars by Ben Bova.

Then NASAimages.org (a project run by the internet archive) may be your dream come true! The site just launched, and looks like it’s still in a testing stage, but it seems like it will be a really good resource. All images are archived and tagged by dates, keywords, categories, etc. and have sidebars with scientific […]

Who knew that lunch could be this awesome? After the jump, more incredibly nerdy bento boxes.

Have you been watching Battlestar Galactica? If so, you will notice that they show a beautiful and multi-colored space, much like NASA’s Hubble photographs. I took a screengrab, above, to illustrate the point. But is that how space would really look to the human eye, as suggested by BSG? This bugged me to no end, […]

There’s a ton of graffiti by my office (I work in industrial north Williamsburg, Brooklyn), but this is the coolest piece I have seen. I did some googling and it turns out, there’s more!

Endeavor Astronauts are currently spacewalking a couple hundred miles above this blue marble to replace one of the faulty gyroscopes on the ISS. You can watch it live on Nasa TV. I live for this shit. Live Video: Nasa TV.