The Mountainsmith Altura 1-Person 3-Season Tent makes an ideal lightweight shelter if you backpack solo or if you don't feel like getting romantic with your buddies in...

The 54th Carnival of Space is up at Altair VI. I love the name of that blog, though I’m surprised I don’t get 403 errors when I go there. Hahahaha! Get it?...

Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of...

The sheer amount of Mexican trinkets you could fit in the ALPS Mountaineering Cortez Backpack is staggering. This weeklong (3-6 day) backpack features over 80L of...

Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that,...

FINALLY Every boy from 2 from to a 100 (and a bit more), is going to like this story titled "Rocket man flies on jet-powered wings", as told by MSNBC:...

The Mineral Moon The Mineral Moon. A mosaic of 53 images that was recorded by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft as it passed near the moon in 1992. The...

The most recent supernova in our galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. The supernova explosion occurred about 140 years ago, making...

Simon Howes writes "After searching for decades, astronomers have found a supernova in our galaxy! So it wasn't little green men we were waiting for. It's located very...

An anonymous reader writes "According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an article titled 'Aliens Are My Brother' that intelligent beings created...

An “e-mail” message from aliens inhabiting the Altair solar system could reach Earth within 7 years, some astronomers suggest. The alien message would come...

Forget getting a bunk bed from Ikea, you want something original and exciting? Something that your kids (or maybe yourself) will really want to sleep on? Then consider...

NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida...

As 2007 comes to a close, we're marking 12 years of Yahoo! Picks. To celebrate, we've called up some of our favorite features from the past dozen years. Today's Pick,...

(European Space Agency) Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to...

The University of Mississippi is graduating the first ever space lawyer. While graduate Michael Dodge won't deal with judges sporting particularly wrinkled foreheads, he...

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is a virtual telescope software that enables you to explore the universe with the help of interactive star charts and high resolution...

Maybe it's time to get a new telescope or upgrade for the future in another way? According to a report in today's New York Times, the skies may be the next frontier in...

Ever since Copernicus placed the Sun at the center of the universe instead of the Earth, scientific discoveries have been repeatedly making our home planet less special...

When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander descends to the surface of the Red Planet on May 25, few will be watching as closely as the men and women who have spent years planning,...