Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast - May 16-18, 2008 "Everybody dancing in the moonlight… Dancing in the moonlight… Everybody feeling warm and bright… It's...
Closer to the Heart - 47 Tucanae Those huge, gravitationally bound balls of stars know as globular clusters aren't without a heart. Containing a thick...
Next TEGA "Bake" Could Be Last for Phoenix The "vibrating" done to get the first Mars arctic soil sample into Phoenix's TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas...
Theory of Relativity Passes Another Test Einstein's theory of General Relativity has been around for 93 years, and it just keeps hanging in there. With...
Exploding Asteroid Theory Gains Evidence About 13,000 years ago, woolly mammoths roamed the North American continent and the first known human society in...
How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star? We've all asked this question at some point: How long would it take to travel to the stars? And could I...
Nano-materials Could Protect Spacecraft and Satellites From Debris Space junk in Earth orbit is becoming a big problem (here's an previous UT article that...
NASA Needs to Take Space Sex Seriously StarGazer's Telescope: So Long, Saturn… As the summer nights in the northern hemisphere grow short, Saturn fades...
A Cold War Meeting in Space 33 Years Ago Today Deke Slayton and Aleksey Leonov meet in space. Credit: NASA On July 17, 1975, something momentous and...
NASA's Use of Cadavers to Test the Orion Capsule Orion Crew Capsule. Credit: Howstuffworks.com NASA is debating whether the new Orion capsule should land in...
Astronomers Discover a Supernova/Gamma Ray Burst Hybrid Spiral galaxy NGC 2770 with two supernovae SN 2007uy and SN 2008D. Credit: NASA Just when we thought we...
How do you Weigh a Supermassive Black Hole? Take its Temperature A composite image of Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope observations of giant elliptical...
Observing an Evaporating Extrasolar Planet Observations of planets orbiting other stars are becoming increasingly common as astronomical techniques become more...
Quantum strangeness breaks the light barrier 13 August 2008 NewScientist.com news service Hi all Greetings; I think this experiment would be described...
Ride a Maglev Rocket to Space Hotel in 2012 Space Spa on Galactic Suite Hotel. Credit: Galactic Suite The space tourism company Galactic Suite already has 38...
By 2020, Droids Could Explore Space For Us All the best sci-fi films have them, and they may become our future automated space explorers. Currently, one of the...
Cosmic 'Needle in a Haystack' Confirms Dark Energy The bright blue blob is an ancient galaxy cluster. Credits: ESA XMM-Newton/EPIC, LBT/LBC, AIP (J....
Large Hadron Collider Rap Is a Hit Kate McAlpine at the LHC. Credit: Telegraph Puzzled about particle physics? Want to know what the inside of the Large Hadron...
