Chris Hatherill
Sex and Death | Japanese Art in Hong Kong
A new erotica exhibition showcases the photographs of three master artists
When Astronomers Chased a Total Eclipse in a Concorde
In the 1970s, a small group of astronomers used the first prototype of the Concorde to pursue a total eclipse across the Sahara at twice the speed of sound.
Patrick Moore Was the Forrest Gump of the Space Age: Watch His Greatest Hits
For over fifty years, Patrick Moore was the very British face of the space age – an eccentric, monocle-wearing, xylophone-playing mix of Carl Sagan, Jack Horkheimer and Walter Cronkite.
At the Institute for Interstellar Studies, Researchers Unite to Conquer Deep Space
For six decades, warring factions of space nerds have toiled away on various plans for heading out into deep space to explore the stars.
The 9/11 Memorial on Mars
Of all the tributes to the victims of 9/11 – from the small and personal to the national and epic – few will prove as enduring as the one created by JPL and employees at Honeybee Robotics: two small pieces of the World Trade Center towers currently...
From Park Avenue to the Surface of Mars
NASA-loving artist Tom Sachs’ new show at the Park Avenue Armory will see a team of thirteen attractive astronauts simulating a mission to the red planet using low-fi bricolaged components manufactured by the artist to take them to the surface and back...
The Galactic Matter We Can't Find is Locked in a Dark Web
Researchers in Japan reckon they've pinpointed some of the missing dark matter that should be all over the universe. It turns out it's, uh, all over the universe – specifically in a massive web woven far out beyond the observable edge of each galaxy...
Voyagers Detect Long-Lost Signal From Our Own Galaxy
Chalk up yet another achievement for NASA's Voyager probes.
Energy-Saving Meat
When we first heard about lab-grown meat we were totally like "awh, fuck, dude, that's totally gross" but after sitting down to chat with Mark Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastrich University and Chairman of the Dutch Society of...
The World's Largest, Most Complex Telescope Opens Its Eyes for the First Time
The world’s newest, largest and most complicated telescope is now officially open for astronomy. Located high in the deserts of Chile, the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA)
The End of Time... and Back
Like the Eames' "Powers of Ten":http://www.powersof10.com on meth (and slightly more educational), _The Known Universe_ takes you from the earth to the far reaches of time and space, mapping every known satellite, star and galaxy all the way out to...
The Most Complete 3D Map of Our Local Universe is a 380 Light Light-Years-Wide Connect the Dots
Astronomers Unveil Best-Ever 3D Map of the Universe