An international team of scientists say a new  technique could turn pulsars into superbly accurate time-keepers. A pulsar is the spinning, collapsed core of a massive star that ended in a…

Which is cooler: "I run a rocket company" or "This is my secret remote tropic island spaceport"? In A Spaceport of Her Own, I interview Randa Milliron about InterOrbital System's code-named "Tonga…

High-resolution images show that the solar corona is filled with large, banana-shaped magnetic structures called coronal loops. It is thought that these coronal loops, some over a few 100,000 km long…

Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born -so young it can hardly be considered a true star because it is in the earliest stages of star…

South Korea Fails to Launch Space Rocket The's second attempt to launch its first space rocket has failed. Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byung-man announced in a briefing on…

Lutetia is a large, primitive asteroid left on the shelf for billions of years, presumably because no planet consumed it as the Solar System formed.  Most measurements affirm this, making the…

With the press of a button, yesterday Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands activated LOFAR and started the recording of its first official image. LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) is by all standards a big…

Galaxy M51, now called the Whirlpool Galaxy, was discovered by Charles Messier in 1773 but its spiral structure was first found by William Parsons in 1845, using his huge (and wonderfully named)…

The nation's second attempt to launch its first space rocket has failed. Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byung-man announced in a briefing on Thursday that the Naro space rocket…

GPS will die, sending airplanes crashing and sinking boats.  Cell phones will fail, stranding travelers and resulting in people in remote areas dying due to exposure.  Worse of all, our TV…