Astronomy
- Astronomy
Double the rubble: Nearby star system has two asteroid belts
Epsilon Eridani hosts an inner asteroid belt and planet arranged like those in the solar system.
By Ron Cowen - Astronomy
Ultramassive: as big as it gets
A black hole can consume anything in its path. These monsters can become huge — but perhaps only so huge.
- Astronomy
On that ‘earmark’ for my favorite science center
Featured blog: In the last debate, McCain denounced proposed federal spending on a multimillion dollar "overhead projector."
By Janet Raloff -
- Planetary Science
Saturn’s rings may not be as young as they look
Saturn's rings might be more massive, and thus older, than researchers had believed.
By Ron Cowen - Astronomy
McCain Is Bullish on R&D
Featured blog: John McCain weighs in on science and technology issues with long-awaited written responses to the Science Debate 2008.
By Janet Raloff -
- Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
By Alex Szalay - Astronomy
Invisible clumps in the galaxy
Model finds dark matter nearby and might shed light on the invisible material’s composition.
- Astronomy
The Universe in a Mirror
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It.
- Astronomy
Save the date: solar eclipse
NASA will broadcast and webcast the next total solar eclipse Aug. 1, live from China
- Archaeology
Greeks followed a celestial Olympics
A Greek gadget discovered more than a century ago in a 2,100-year-old shipwreck not only tracked the motion of heavenly bodies and predicted eclipses, but also functioned as a sophisticated calendar and mapped the four-year cycle of the ancient Greek Olympics.
By Ron Cowen