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Salon.com
April 26, 2001
Chris Colin |
Failing, falling and burning to bits On its red-hot deathbed, the Mir space station helped us root for misery, a good story and fiery debris...   |
Wired
April 2001
Tom McNichol |
Beyond Cool NASA cost-cutters want to kill a pioneering probe to the ice-cold edge of the solar system. First they have to reckon with the Pluto Underground... |
Science News
April 7, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Strange Orbits Like toy cars chasing each other on a looped racetrack, three stars can, in principle, trace out a figure-eight orbit in space... |
Science News
March 10, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mayan Mars Mayan astronomers developed their own model to describe the motion of Mars with uncanny accuracy. Anthropologists from the U.S. have recently described evidence supporting the Mayan model... |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Michael Scott Moore |
"The Hole in the Universe" by K.C. Cole An engaging new book explores the riddles of space, from string theory to the possibility that the universe is a holographic projection... |
Wired
January 2001
Ed Regis |
Zip Drive NASA scientists are building a hot little ride: Vasimr, a rocket that runs on million-degree plasma and could someday fuel a fast-track trip to Mars... |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
A Space Odyssey in 2001 Students in grades 4 through 6 will have the opportunity to create solutions to real space exploration challenges through the fifth annual Space Day. Space Day, which will be observed on May 3, 2001, celebrates the achievements and opportunities of space exploration... |
Wired
September 2000 |
Verge NASA's new helium-filled balloons are going higher and doing more than ever to understand and predict stratospheric ozone loss... |
Wired
August 2000 |
GEO 600 laser interferometer It will measure gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity but yet to be observed. These waves - space-time ripples caused by the movement of large cosmic masses like black holes and compact binary stars - will help determine distances across the universe. |
Salon.com
December 2, 1999
William Speed Weed |
Master of the universe With the existence of six new planets announced just this week, Geoffrey Marcy is racking up "extrasolar" discoveries like Mark McGwire racks up homers. |
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