The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is preparing to insert itself into an orbit around the Red Planet, a task that's always tricking for robotic spacecraft. Let's just hope NASA's got the whole metric/English measurement thing down this time. Read the full story.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is preparing to insert itself into an orbit around the Red Planet, a task that's always tricking for robotic spacecraft. Let's just hope NASA's got the whole metric/English measurement thing down this time. Read the full story.

The Firefly soundtrack doesn't have the same cinematic, awe-inspiring musical grandeur of the score for a Star Wars or Star Trek film. Instead, it yields the familiar sensations all too common in Firefly ... the sense of coming home, and the sense of something great once held, then lost.

The songs are as rich and textured as the series that spawned them. It's got the western twangs you'd expect, mixed in with the mystical Oriental strings, and occasionally torn by horrific riffs reflecting horrors confronted and bested. Or run screaming from.