Mika McKinnon's posts

On Saturday, for the first time, a rocket blasted off from the US West Coast to fling its payload on an…

If all goes according to plan, NASA’s Mars InSight mission will launch this weekend from California. Onboard the…

Peggy is something along the edge of Saturn’s ring, a glitch whose source we’ve never seen. Cassini took a last peek…

I’m baaaackkkk! Only kinda, but you’ll see my byline sneaking into Gizmodo occasionally as a freelancer. I was at…

Yesterday morning, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slammed into the day side of Saturn, the brief flash of its…

Remember those secret projects I hinted about? We’ve crossed those magical thresholds of silence for me to tell you…

Former-astronaut and io9 dreamguy Chris Hadfield is going on a cruise into the Arctic circle. He’s bringing an…

Good news, everybody! Your favourite writers who survived the Great Culling are finally part of a union and will be…

After the Great Rearranging following the iomodo merger and new Editor-in-Chief, our science subsites scattered to…

Physicists and physics fans imitating gravitational waves is my new favourite thing.

Just under two years ago, I stumbled onto Kinja and muddled through my first, poorly-structured, nearly-unreadable…

It’s taken half a century, but we’re finally getting a handle on our Sun’s complex magnetic field. A new model from…

Parent-child relationships are challenging. They just get more complicated when the pair is father Morland Holmes, a…

Astronauts fired this small, rectangular hunk from the International Space Station today. The payload will separate…

It’s hard to remember the beauty of winter when constantly shovelling walkways, scraping ice off cars, and tromping…

Reusable rockets just went from a party trick to a research necessity. Have a rocket you can launch, land safely,…

Curiosity is busy poking and prodding the Bagnold Dunes, learning some new tricks in the first-ever interplanetary…

Thirty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded. The tragedy shocked a nation caught in launch fever, and…

The new Cygnus spacecraft is the cheeriest of the cargo tugs hauling gear to the International Space Station. Those…

We’re openly obsessed with the assembly of the segmented origami mirror for the James Webb Space Telescope. A…