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02-08-2010 - space

Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA's future

"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait about the new NASA budget. "I see t >>

02-08-2010 - Space

Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait on NASA's future

"This is not the end of NASA's manned space program," said Plait about the new NASA budget. "I see this as a shake-up that is actually pretty important and may very well be needed desperately by NASA >>

02-08-2010 - Space

Tom Woods studies sun in super HD with NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory mission is studying the solar storms the drive our space weather here on Earth. >>

02-01-2010 - Space

David Schlegel says BOSS will use ancient sound waves to map universe

"It's a very exciting time in astronomy right now, because we do have these big unknown questions about both dark energy and dark matter. Yet, at the same time, we now have these experiments where we' >>

01-18-2010 - Space

David Paige measures extreme cold on surface of moon

According to Dr. Paige, a new thermal map of the moon shows the coldest temperatures in our solar system ever directly measured. >>

01-16-2010 - Space

Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'Learning how to think is empowerment'

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the recipient of EarthSky's Science Communicator of the Year award for 2009. He spoke with EarthSky's Deborah Byrd about why he spends so much time talking to people about scien >>

01-04-2010 - Space

David McComas investigates heliosphere surrounding our solar system

"Having taken these first observations of the interactions at the edge of our solar system, and discovering this completely new ribbon of very bright emissions in a place that nobody expected it, just >>

12-28-2009 - Space

Ned Wright: 'WISE space telescope will make an atlas of the universe'

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will orbit the Earth through 2010 and scan the entire sky in infrared light. >>

12-28-2009 - Space

Paul Davies studies possibilities of life beyond Earth

Davies talks about the realm of microbes he calls the 'shadow biosphere' - and how these microbes could hold clues to alien life. >>

11-30-2009 - Space

Alan Stern: ‘A Chihuahua is still a dog, and Pluto is still a planet'

"Our whole view of the solar system was turned upside in the 1990s when we discovered this plethora of Pluto-like planets. The fact is that it's our larger Earth that's the misfit," says Stern. >>

11-16-2009 - Space

Paul Davies on how life on Earth began

"The question about whether life is a 'freak accident' or built into the nature of the universe is wide open," says Davies. "But it's testable by not doing very much - we simply have to study life on >>