Nothing grabs media attention like a close visit by an asteroid or comet. At Slooh, the online observatory, hundreds of

Friday, the 21st is the Summer Solstice. Together with the equinoxes and the Harvest Moon, it’s the final Earth/sky connection

Some 18 months ago, the Mars Science Laboratory began a 253-day journey to Mars to deliver the Curiosity Rover to

This past March 17, an unusual number of deep-penetrating meteor fireballs tore through our atmosphere. Brilliant and eye-catching, their paths

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A new Einstein biography has just been released. Despite the great man’s justified celebrity, many misconceptions are repeated. Take his

In our culture of publicity and hard-sell, it’s tempting to exaggerate. Even with celestial events, the media often cry wolf.

Can you get out of here? That’s the question pondered for centuries: How to leave Earth permanently. A cannonball fired

Today’s column had its origins this afternoon when a Woodstock storeowner sighed. The problem? He’d laboriously written a book on