The most popular story on BBC News right now asks, “What Happened to Global Warming ?” It’s a great question.  The story explains that the last decade has been pretty chilly: For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures… And our climate models did not forecast it, even though [...]

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has been presented with a rather stunning postulation: … each Sun-like star has on average one “Earth-like” planet. This simple calculation means there would be huge numbers capable of supporting life. “Not only are they probably habitable but they probably are also going [...]

A total lunar eclipse occurred this evening and we had an amazingly clear sky for watching and recording. I managed to capture these images (and plenty of video) of the event.