Science

Time marches on, but sunrise will be stuck at 7:22 a.m. for more than a week. Winter constellations becoming prominent ...

LEGO Curiosity Rover model (295 pieces) goes on sale on Jan. 1. Designed by a mechanical engineer who actually worked o ...

Winter solstice arrives Saturday afternoon at 12:11. Saturday also marks a manned mission milestone, on 12/21/68 – ...

Venus is VERY bright after sunset; at its brightest for the year tomorrow. Don’t miss it. Nothing is ever this br ...

Earliest sunset arrives this Saturday, latest sunrise arrives early next month. Summer constellations can still be seen ...

Comet ISON arrives at the sun on Thanksgiving Day. Observers hope the close approach will dramatically increase dust pr ...

As Comet ISON heads towards the sun, its icy CO2 nucleus is beginning to sublimate, releasing the dust trapped since th ...

Earth-like is a very relative term; mass, size, distance from star, atmosphere, temperature, orbiting period are all fa ...

Question: What other solar system body has lakes? Answer: Titan, the largest moon of Saturn (slightly bigger than our m ...

Largest known star (16,000 light years away) shows signs of imminent destruction. W26 is 3,000 times the diameter of o ...

Orionid meteor shower tonight — Let’s talk meteor showers for a minute. Majors, minors, what to expect, whe ...

An ancient stone owned by Tutankhamun has been identified as a piece of comet nucleus, the first ever discovered on Ear ...

97% of NASA employees have been furloughed as a result of the partial federal government shutdown. A prolonged shutdown ...

Methane on Mars? Earlier methane indication suggested existing life or recent life underground, but newer data from the ...

Hubble discovers a globular cluster cluster – 2.25 billion light years from earth in a cluster of galaxies called ...