NASA's prepping its Solar Probe Plus mission for a firey sundive. It's no theatrical stunt--it's all about science and understanding how our sun works, which doesn't make it a bit less awesome.READ»
While you were sleeping, the lights went out in the Eastern Hemisphere as the largest solar eclipse this century cast a shadow from Asia to the South Pacific. The total solar eclipse cast complete darkness over an area up to 160 miles ...READ»
Astronomers have found the biggest cluster of exoplanets ever, the first in 15 years. The star at the center of the discovery is Sun-like, and there may even be an Earth-y planet still hiding in the data.READ»
After Steven Vogt and his team announced the discovery of a planet in the habitable zone of Gliese 581 in late September 2010, other astronomers failed to confirm the discovery. Yet, as Dr. Vogt told EarthSky, the failure to confirm does not mean the planet is not there.READ»
NASA's set to launch an extraordinary satellite today that has a particularly exciting mission. Kepler is being called the first spacecraft with the ability to peer at distant stars and distinguish if a particular type of planet is ...READ»
We're all familiar with the face of the Moon -- it's blobby shapes and colors are part of the unconscious map of our environment we all share. And we all know that the Moon doesn't rotate as seen from Earth. But now, research suggests ...READ»
Kevin Werbach is an independent technology analyst, consultant, and writer, as well as CEO of the Supernova Group . Werbach is a contributing editor of Release 1.0: Esther Dyson's Monthly Report, and co-organizer of PC Forum. ...READ»
I once had an idea for a book that compares marketing to the solar system. That metaphor, which I call radiant marketing, is quite apt for describing how marketing efforts are being impacted by new technologies and new ways of connecting with customers and members. It's a simple metaphor, with the sun representing a business and the planets the customers. READ»
Japan is due to fire a H-IIA rocket into space tomorrow, with a rather special payload aboard: The Ikaros space yacht, a beautiful vehicle that's an experimental test bed for solar sail technology. The launch is scheduled for early ...READ»
The Force, the energy released at the moment of the Big Bang expanded out and created a volume of space at the same time it also began to transformed itself into a zillion different elementary particles, fermions and bosons if you ...READ»
The Hubble Space Telescope has always been an amazing machine, but it was recently made even more amazing with some repairs and optical upgrades in daring spacewalks. The first pics are out now, and they're stunning.
The HST was ...READ»
Radiant marketing is a simple metaphor with the sun representing a business and the planets the customers. Your job as a business owner is to keep the sun burning bright and not fade into a black hole, with marketing being key to that effort. So where does social media marketing fall in this planetary metaphor?READ»
Unlocking the secrets of the universe doesn't come cheap. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has spent at least 10 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest particle ...READ»
Ten brains are better than one, right? Crowdsourcing will always make projects go faster. That's why The Energy Crowd, a crowd-sourced based Web site for renewable energy technologies, is moving so quickly with its first ...READ»
The world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1, met its demise in 2005 when it fell into the ocean before ever reaching orbit. But dreams of solar sails propelling spaceships haven't died, and Carl Sagan's Planetary ...READ»
