Mik's Minis

Just a quick trip with the fam down to the US SPace and Rocket museum in Huntsville, Alabama.  Well worth the drive, this place was fanta...

I was quite taken with the amazing "space jump" event that took place earlier this week.  The thought a breaking the sound barri...

Well it looks like Oppenheimer isn't the only scientist to be given the honor of serving in the ranks of the Thor's Day Heroes, say ...

The first lady of Anthropology, forget about Lucy, Mrs. Ples was gathering before hunting/gathering was popular by all the hot hominids bac...

They just don't make them like they used to, and Robert Oppenheimer falls into one of those 'once every few generations' catego...

It has been some time since I posted a science or nature (gardens don't count!) topic, but how can I pass this one up? It was a bold ...

Look! It's the GLAST ! Sheesh, this photo is so old (look at the monitor in the pic) that they don't even call it the GLAST anymor...

Galileo, Juno, and Jupiter himself This has been all over the news, in both Lego channels and mainstream media but I had to include i...

Post #555; a 55k image of an origami 555 Timer, posted on the 5th at 5:55am

A macabre and forgotten episode from the Dark Ages has been uncovered by British researchers after they examined dozens of beheaded skelet...

On this day in 1966... The Soviet probe Venera 3 successfully lands on the surface of Venus. It’s the first time anything man-made makes con...

Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , Southwest Research Institute Explanation: What would it be like to co...

"Failed Russian test missile". You know you love it, discuss...

Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft Credit & Copyright: ESA ( MPS for OSIRIS Team), MPS /UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UP...

I'm a bit slow on the draw here, but just for posterity... Water Discovered in Moon Shadow Credit: LCROSS , NASA Explanation: ...

Explanation: Driving along on a summer evening , near the small town of Weikersheim in southern Germany, photographer Jens Hackmann had ...

Just in case you missed it originally on Wired... There’s finally proof that Earth-like planets can exist outside our solar system: Scientis...

Skygazers are preparing for another dazzling sky show, as the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak. No special equipment is requir...