With Mars so bright, Rudolph not needed
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Mars will be unusually bright this Christmas Eve and the moon will be shining full Â a development that might make Santa Claus rethink his need for Rudolph's red nose.
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More than 30 years ago, when NASAâs two Viking landers looked for signs of life on Mars, the results were ambiguous.
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LOS ANGELES: New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the tantalizing possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported.
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For the first time in almost two years, there are no bright planets in the evening sky. You might as well stay inside and eat dinner. The morning sky, on the other hand, is sparkling. Mercury. Venus. Saturn. A slender crescent Moon. The luminous stars of Orion. They're all on display in the days ahead: Sept. 10th through 12th.
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Â· Dwarf planet is not even the biggest of its type Â· Eris, body that reopened debate, is heavier
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To all that Roethlisbergsteria, add a touch of Manningmania. For Eli, not Peyton.
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Not the end of the world, but certainly no rose garden.
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You won't need to be in  New York this year to attend NBC Universal's annual Christmas  tree lighting at Rockefeller Center.
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Stellar growth isn't necessary in an awful economy.
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PARIS  -- A rock measuring less than 10 metres (33 feet) across zipped past the Earth at the closest distance ever detected, but it would not have posed any threat if it had struck our planet, astronomers said.      The "very small" asteroid missed the Earth on March 31 by the wafer-thin gap of 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles), according to an email circulated by the international network NEO News (NEO stands for Near-Earth Object)...
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As winter begins, the early morning sky is loaded with planets. Some are unmistakably bright, but a few will require some sleuthing.
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As NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one
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Research suggests that the sun's activity is not responsible for the onset of global warming.
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Research suggests that the Sun's activity is not responsible for the onset of global warming.
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By Thomas R. Webber  Contrary to popular notion, "shooting stars" (meteors) have nothing to do with stars at all. In fact, size-wise, they might not even seem very noteworthy.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Ira Flatow tells Alex how to catch a rare sight in the sky just before Christmas dawn -- no, not Santa, but the International Space Station.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.