| Starfest a chance to scope out five planets and the heavens JULIAN For the third year running, stargazers will flock to Julian in hopes of a clear look at five planets, along with a star-filled sky. Organizers expect Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and... | |
| China launches new global positioning satellite BEIJING (Reuters) – China took a further step on Sunday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services. A rocket carrying the fifth of a... |
| World's oldest Twitter user, and friend of the stars, dies aged 104 Messages were still appearing yesterday on the Twitter feed of IvyBean104 – but only to relay the news that the woman reputed to be the world's oldest twitterer had died. Ivy Bean, who grew up... |
| Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Universe Is Not In A Black Hole (Caption) Does a spinning massive object wind up spacetime? Credit: J Bergeron / Sky and Telescope Magazine. An APOD for 7 November 1997. It has been reported that a... |
| Elon Musk: 'I'm planning to retire to Mars' | Discover Mars . Not now, but when he's older and ready to swap life on Earth for one on the red planet. "It would be a good place to retire," he says in all seriousness. Normally, this would be the time to... |
| Indie band One Ring Zero explores the universe Published Date: August 01, 2010 Making an album about such seemingly simple concepts as food or ice cream trucks might seem like a fool's errand, but for Brooklyn indie duo One Ring Zero, those... |
| NASA robot to tweet from space Kanye West isn't the only celebrity that joined Twitter this week. NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2, is getting ready to work on the International Space Station in November but it's already tweeting about... |
| Whole New Mercury Promised by NASA Spacecraft NEW YORK – A NASA spacecraft aimed at Mercury has already returned valuable observations from the planet closest to our sun, despite still being months away from entering orbit around the small,... |
| New Space Telescope Mirrors Get Frosty Treatment NASA is putting the mirrors for its ambitious new James Webb Space Telescope through the ultimate cold test — one that exposes them to temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing to... |
| DIY Weekend: Building a window to the stars Want an eye-popping view of the heavens but don't own a high-powered telescope or live near an observatory? Try building your own reflecting telescope. San Francisco-based... |
| What's that weird thing around Saturn's second-largest moon? In 2008, researchers detected a sharp, symmetrical drop in electrons around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. This could be caused by a ring of debris, but the Cassini spacecraft, which has flown... |
| Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods David Barriopedro at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and colleagues were intrigued by studies showing the tides followed an 11-year cycle, just like the sun, showing peaks when the sunspots were... |
