Topic: Astronomy

Science and sentiment can go hand in hand

There's no empirical evidence supporting the idea that the nighttime's celestial firmament during February has any correlation to the secular ...

Solar Flare Eyed in Fobos

A powerful solar flare may have caused the failure of the Fobos-Grunt space probe that crashed this month, a space industry source told Interfax on...

NASA's Kepler Finds 26 New Planets

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets, the U.S. space agency announced Thursday in a...

January 28 - Stargazing at the Public Observatory

Telescopic Observing Saturday, January 28 6:45 pm Public Observatory Museum in Washington, DC Admission: Free . . The National Air and Space...

January 28 - Sand Dunes Throughout the Solar System

Smithsonian's Stars Lecture Series Jim Zimbelman, Geologist, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies Saturday, January 28 5:45 pm Albert Einstein...

A winter escape to Mont Megantic, or Jamaica

Snow and stars at Mont Mégantic . . If you like winter sports and you're a fan of astronomy, check out the website astrolab. qc.ca, which lists...
sighted writes "This week's huge solar storm will benefit future astronauts, thanks to the rover Curiosity, now on its way to Mars. The rover is...

Where in the cosmos? All over!

David Kirkby / UC-Irvine / SDSS Collaboration. . The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III surveyed 14,000 square degrees of the sky, more than a third of...
Republican Newt Gingrich has made the bold promise to establish an American space colony on the Moon by the end of his term (if he is elected). In...
Sound it Out # 15: Nada Surf "Waiting for Something". . Nada Surf has been playing intelligent and catchy guitar-based rock music for two decades...