Meteor Shower November 2009: WATCH Leonid Meteor Shower Preview (VIDEO)
The Leonid Meteor Shower will hit its peak early in the morning Tuesday, Nov. 17. For those far enough from city lights and fortunate enough to hav...
The Leonid Meteor Shower will hit its peak early in the morning Tuesday, Nov. 17. For those far enough from city lights and fortunate enough to hav...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology
WASHINGTON — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many p...
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, has just produced new images of the solar system that has shocked astronomers. This first full-sized m...
Posted 10.12.2009 | Impact
The national space program is scheduled to end soon, and a vocal group of enthusiasts, businesses and cities have banded together to promote Save Spac...
AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 10.11.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on De...
Lisa Napoli | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media
The other night when I turned on my boob-tube, there was no signal. Control freaks take heart: If you must know exactly when this might happen to you and your TV service, type in "solar outage calculator" online.
Amy Ephron | Posted 10.07.2009 | Comedy
On Friday, NASA is planning to crash into the moon. I'm just wondering: who gave them permission to crash into the moon?
Michael Kaplan | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home
Semi-irregularity, by combining the familiar and the changeable, gives the mind its best tools for effective thought: patterns and exceptions.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand – if only it weren't so b...
Gabriel Rotello | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
It's heartening to see that in the case of the Mt. Wilson observatory, people were willing to put their lives on the line to save a bucolic piece of living history.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
To mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first recorded discoveries in the sky through a telescope, 2009 has been declared the International...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large t...
Suzanne Deal Booth | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
Eclipse chasing is a serious endeavor. The first time I chased one was with my 16 year old daughter in 2006 in Cappadocia, Turkey, not far from the first recorded total solar eclipse.
Phil Plait | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
Planetaria show us the beauty and grandeur of the Universe, and shouldn't be cynically relegated to being a political bludgeon used to score cheap points.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Last week, astronomers uncovered new planets in the celestial lounge: we'll wonder how quickly they'll take our jobs, then we'll build a border fence around the planet. That's just the kind of worldly neighbors we are.
space.com | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
Planet hunters say it's just a matter of time before they lasso Earth's twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy. Mom...
Phil Plait | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living
This is what we humans can do when we try. When we persist and learn from our mistakes, we can literally touch other worlds.
BBC News | Paul Rincon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The biggest black hole in the Universe has been weighed by astronomers. The monster celestial object is 18 billion times more massive than our own Su...
New York Times | Kate Murphy | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
In the quaint seaside community of Gloucester, Mass., on Cape Ann, one gray clapboard house stands out from the rest. It has a big white dome rising f...
Posted 11.16.2009 | Green