Editor's Note - I know it's the summer but I swear I've been very, very busy with an auxiliary side project. Blogs will increase in frequency after this, I swear!

What other game is more synonymous with "nerd" than DND? Countless hours spent mulling over a piece of paper, poor handwriting scrawling away a character's life, a map, foreign lands stretching across continents, carefully etched into the paper sprawled over your bed... that idea of endless possibilities, the ability to forge your own story through...

Save for its name, Uranus isn't really the most memorable planet out there. Being far enough away from Earth that any amateur observer would barely be able to make out coherent details of its surface, let alone the very faint bands and storms that any self-respecting gas giant would have. As a result, astronomical focus has typically been on its...

We're going back to Jupiter! JUICE, or the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, has launched this Friday and is now headed towards Jupiter. There, it'll collect and survey the three icy and large moons for show - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, each with its own subsurface ocean to explore. This'll probably be done through scanning the surfaces for the...