'I'm planning to retire to Mars' | Discover
Mars . Not now, but when he's older and ready to swap life on Earth for one on the red planet. "It would be a good place to retire," he says in all seriousness. Normally, this would be the time to mak...
Indie band One Ring Zero explores the universe
Published Date: August 01, 2010 Making an album about such seemingly simple concepts as food or ice cream trucks might seem like a fool's errand, but for Brooklyn indie duo One Ring Zero, those conce...
NASA robot to tweet from space
Kanye West isn't the only celebrity that joined Twitter this week. NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2, is getting ready to work on the International Space Station in November but it's already tweeting about pr...
NASA robot to tweet from space
Kanye West isn't the only celebrity that joined Twitter this week. NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2, is getting ready to work on the International Space Station in November but it's already tweeting about pr...
NASA robot to tweet from space
Kanye West isn't the only celebrity that joined Twitter this week. NASA's Robonaut 2, or R2, is getting ready to work on the International Space Station in November but it's already tweeting about pr...
Whole New Mercury Promised by NASA Spacecraft
NEW YORK – A NASA spacecraft aimed at Mercury has already returned valuable observations from the planet closest to our sun, despite still being months away from entering orbit around the small, ...
New Space Telescope Mirrors Get Frosty Treatment
NASA is putting the mirrors for its ambitious new James Webb Space Telescope through the ultimate cold test — one that exposes them to temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing to ma...
Building a window to the stars
Want an eye-popping view of the heavens but don't own a high-powered telescope or live near an observatory? Try building your own reflecting telescope. San Francisco-based designer
What's that weird thing around Saturn's second-largest moon
In 2008, researchers detected a sharp, symmetrical drop in electrons around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. This could be caused by a ring of debris, but the Cassini spacecraft, which has flown by...
Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods
David Barriopedro at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and colleagues were intrigued by studies showing the tides followed an 11-year cycle, just like the sun, showing peaks when the sunspots were m...
NASA, UIC offer kids summer science programs
(John J. Kim/Sun-Times) Oliver's father worked his way to independence from sharecropping and vowed that his children would live well by obtaining higher educations. Oliver has enrolled her grand...
Area on Mars could hold fossilized remains of life
A spot on Mars called Nili Fossae that is rich in clay mineral-rich rocks could be a prime spot to search for the fossilized remains of Martian life that may have existed 4 billion years ago, a new st...