Help Lowell Observatory: Bid on Alan Stern’s “Second Fastest Vehicle” Okay, so my friend Alan Stern has been hinting around all week about something “cool” about to happen. If you’ve heard of him, you know he and his team of scientists and technicians pulled off something REALLY cool a year and a half ago. That’s … Continue reading Want the Car Alan Stern Drove While Heading to Pluto? →

Exploring Pluto For my money, the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond is one of the most audacious and exciting missions sent out through the solar system.  I say that as someone who cut her teeth doing science reporting on the Voyager missions! This time last year, we all waited for the spacecraft to … Continue reading Pluto Exploration: Lessons from New Horizons →