Astroland rides into darkness
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On a Coney Island afternoon, as the screams echo from deep inside the haunted house and laughter rings above the thump of the bumper cars, the good times would seem destined to roll on forever at the Astroland Amusement Park.
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Blood and gore, rock and roll, naked  men wrestling, killer sheep, &quot;general freakdom,&quot; and an  audience that hoots and hollers its way through a movie are par  for the course at midnight screenings here.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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Bats may rely on the Earth's magnetic field to navigate long distances in the dark, scientists find.
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RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Strange things happened on Cloudesly Drive. Houses simply disappeared. At one address, there is a swimming pool, transformed into a black lagoon. There is a metal lump, still warm to the touch, that appears to have been the dishwasher. What else? A pile of charred...
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Iceland's capital and several towns  plunged into darkness on Thursday as street lights were turned  off for people to get a better view of the night sky.
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Power to the SkyDome and surrounding areas went off for about an hour yesterday afternoon, and officials say the reason could have been a raccoon in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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By Richard Salit; Journal Staff Writer  NEWPORT - The sun, a pale ghost of itself, struggles to climb above the horizon. The temperature hovers slightly above zero, and the wind whips mercilessly out of the northwest.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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By Andrea Sudano STAFF WRITER  After nine months of darkness, a once hot Hermosa Beach nightspot could rise from its ashes bigger than before if proprietors get their way tonight.
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WINSLOW, ARIZ. - By 6:45 on a chilly desert evening, a deep indigo sky has squeezed what remains of the day into thin lines of pink and turquoise twilight along the horizon.
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A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.
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SMA has an inverter that keeps the solar system going even during a blackout.
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A wild-card race that already was wild turned absolutely bizarre last night, and Milton Bradley was right in the middle of it for the San Diego Padres.
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LOS ANGELES - God vs. Satan cast out space creatures at the box office...
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Skies here were overcast by day, rainy by night. An uninitiated visitor might expect around-the-clock gloom to deepen despair over the local nine and their two-game
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There's a light bulb inside the supremely awesome metal UFO on top, which illuminates the windows and the mysterious aliens inside. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.