Like an &#39;Abandoned Planet&#39;
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TWO weeks ago, the State House looked like a scene from the movie &quot;Titanic,&quot; dazed occupants reeling from the latest iceberg.
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Astronomers describe a planet orbiting a star near the end of its life - a vision, perhaps, of Earth's future.
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New infrared observations of the disks of dust and rock around young stars reveal that many planets apparently form in an environment more violent and chaotic over a longer period of
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Dotted around the globe are shadowy, short-range transmitters beaming strange radio messages across the planet. The messages are indecipherable, and often unlistenable. Nonetheless, they have their fans. By Jason Walsh.
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Evidence is mounting that    the time-weathered red planet was once a warm and water-rich world. And a Mars    awash with water gives rise to that globe possibly being fit for habitation    in its past - and perhaps a distant dwelling for life today.
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The film looks like a children's sci-fi film.
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Scientists are puzzled, but the phenomenon seems to fit the latest global-warming models.
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Alas, we&#39;re not quite over the rainbow, either. Not with &quot;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.&quot;. More&#39;s the pity, because this groundbreaking sci-fi romp wants so desperately to fly high -- as high as writer-director Kerry Conran&#39;s imagination.
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Although the world seems more out of control than ever, it&#39;s reassuring to know one thing has retained its original essence: the soul-sucking, creativity-crushing, black hole of brain cells we call TV programming.
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Smaller but mightier than its neighbors, Rwanda&#39;s greatest clout may come from its nightmare past: a widespread sense around the world that the country was largely abandoned
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By The Associated Press. Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead
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THERE&#39;S no space in the space station. So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk. Only this stuff floated away in space.
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FOR decades, science fiction has promised a future in which lifeâs most mundane chores are carried out by robots. Sadly, the clunky, wobbling automatons that have been wheeled out as examples of this brave
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LOS ANGELES Saturn&#39;s moon Titan has some familiar-looking features, but scientists say most of it looks &quot;very alien.&quot;.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting &quot;down and dirty&quot; on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk, like so many old hubcaps for the trash heap. Only this stuff floated away in space.
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The universe looked a little more familiar and friendlier. The roll call of planets beyond the solar system swelled significantly with the announcement of a trio of newly-discovered worlds much smaller than any previously discovered around other stars.