She Dreamed of the Stars; Now SheÂll Almost Touch Them
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On Monday Anousheh Ansari is scheduled to become the first woman to go into space as an amateur astronaut.
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LOS ANGELES -- Just a few years ago, the idea of bankrolling starry-eyed ventures to fly ordinary people into space was laughed off as science fiction.
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Dreams have a way of changing ... if you let them.  When Challenger exploded 21 years ago, I diligently was planning high-school coursework around my eventual career as a mission specialist for NASA.
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Astronomers believe they've picked up light generated 13 billion years ago by some of the first stars in the universe.
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According to Kenyon and Bromley&#39;s simulation, such an encounter took place more than 4 billion years ago - 100-200 million years after the Sun&#39;s birth.
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She rides into history aboard the shuttle Challenger, opening up new vistas to a young generation.
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A star turn arrives 34 years after she captivated the nation.
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The world of science has been busy all through 2004. The probing eye looked in all directions. It looked at the skies, at the ground beneath our feet, at the wings of a butterfly and at the molecules of water.
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Astronomers have discovered a planet that seems to have survived the puffing up of its home star, suggesting that Earth could survive the swelling of the Sun.
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By David Koenig  DALLAS - Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
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By Bao Ong, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 17--MENDOTA HEIGHTS -- Jennifer Christensen's dream to navigate celestial bodies of the final frontier is far-fetched for a suburban teacher.
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By DAVID KOENIG  DALLAS - Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
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The actress looked rather dazzling at an air-conditioner launch.
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Call it a Dream a Little Dream come true for fans of 1980s   teen cinema. Or connoisseurs of 21st century celebrity curios.
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NEW YORK Ever since 1960, when a Cornell University astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a pair of nearby stars on the chance that he might hear a &quot;howdy&quot; from extraterrestrial beings, astronomers have persevered in the notion that
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The outer reaches of our solar system may have been shaped long ago by a close encounter with another star that tore up both nascent planetary systems like colliding buzz saws, astronomers said on Tuesday.
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Astrophysicists find a star-like object with a surface temperature just one tenth that of the Sun.