Travel Tech: Organize Your Trip Research OnlineSeptember 01, 2011 – Duffel, an online tool and mobile app, allows users to gather all their trip planning research in one user-friendly space. When I began researching a nine-day road trip through California, the information quickly piled up. I tagged everything from Yelp restaurant reviews and flight itineraries to CVB websites and Traveler On Foot tours, which resulted…
"Supermoon": Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years SaturdayMarch 18, 2011 – The moon will make its closest approach to Earth in 18 years—making the so-called supermoon the biggest full moon in years.
Pictures: Best Amateur Astronomy Images AnnouncedJanuary 20, 2011 – A spooky bubble and other "hidden treasures" are among the winners of a contest that asked the public to process raw astronomy data.
New Aurora Pictures: Solar Storms Light Up Arctic NightFebruary 19, 2011 – Shimmering curtains of neon color added sparkle to Valentine's Day, as bursts of particles from the sun triggered brilliant auroras.
New Planet Found; Star's Fourth World Stumps AstronomersDecember 10, 2010 – A fourth planet found around a sunlike star has its discoverers scratching their heads as to how the oddly spaced system took shape.
Universe's Most Distant Object SpottedOctober 20, 2010 – A galaxy that existed 600 million years after the big bang may help explain why the gases in "empty" space are transparent, experts say.
Pluto Has Oceans Under Ice?December 17, 2010 – Frigid Pluto may harbor a deep liquid ocean beneath its miles-thick ice shell, a new model of the dwarf planet's radioactive core heat suggests.
Video: Hayabusa Spacecraft's Fiery Return From AsteroidJune 16, 2010 – Japan's Hayabusa, the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and return to Earth, made a fiery reentry over southern Australia Sunday night.
Demythologizing Arctotherium, the Biggest Bear EverFebruary 16, 2011 – Quite a few years back, so long ago that I can’t really remember much more than the fact that I once visited it, my parents took me to Space Farms Zoo and Museum. Tucked away in northern New Jersey, the roadside attraction is not so much a zoo or a museum as a throwback to […]
New Comet Pictures: How Hartley 2 Creates "Snowstorm"November 19, 2010 – A detailed dive into NASA's pictures of comet Hartley 2 shows how the odd body's reservoir of dry ice drives a flurry of particles.
Pictures: Brilliant Geminid Meteors Dazzle Sky-WatchersDecember 18, 2010 – See what you missed: Earlier this week dark skies provided the ideal backdrop for the peak of the 2010 Geminid meteor shower.
'War of the Worlds': Behind the 1938 Radio Show PanicJune 17, 2005 – Here's how the classic radio hoax unfolded.
Florida by Land: Explore Geological WondersJanuary 06, 2010 – Visit caverns, sinkholes, and other often rare and unexpected wild spaces in Florida.
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Astronaut John GrunsfeldNovember 24, 2009 – Voice from Outer Space: Astronaut John Grunsfeld Around NASA, he’s known as “the Hubble Repairman.” And last May, on his third visit to the orbiting space telescope, John Grunsfeld pulled off the repair to end all repairs. Working at zero gravity some 350 miles above the surface of the Earth, the astronaut restored sight to…
Up on the RoofMay 01, 2009 – A lofty idea is blossoming in cities around the world, where acres of potential green space lie overhead.
Einstein’s Evolving Universe: Beyond the Big BangMay 16, 2005 – A century later we’re still probing the great physicist’s notions of space and time.