If You Love Your Robot, Set It Free It may not rival Disney’s WALL-E, but NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit just might be the most popular real robot in the solar system. And that popularity only increased when it became mired in loose, sandy soil on May 1. But soon Spirit may make a break for it. While … Read more
BY ERIC FRANCIS The Sun is in Cancer and summer has begun, it’s starting to feel like it in some parts of the United States that have been rained on for the past month. (Many parts of the Northeast have felt more like the Pacific Northwest lately.) Venus and Mars, still clinging to one another … Read more
Hubble refit goes off without a hitch Earth’s eye in the sky — well, its most famous one, at any rate — is back in business after a lengthy, complicated and daring mission by astronauts in the Space Shuttle Atlantis over the past week, as recapped by The New York Times. The Hubble Space Telescope has now been … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Northern Hemisphere summer begins Monday with a series of planetary events, and as often happens, events in close proximity describe a theme. When the Sun makes its ingress into the cardinal sign Cancer, it will be conjunct an asteroid called Vesta. This magnificently complex asteroid, I believe, holds the key to … Read more
By ERIC FRANCIS Aries (March 20-April 19) You seem to be competing with yourself, or dealing with having a double purpose. It’s possible to express two reasons for being, but they need to have something in common rather than being at odds with one another. One of them feels a bit odd or out of … Read more