[10/12/2007] -- This fall and winter, Mars may not be appear as big as the full Moon (it never looks that big), but it will make its closest pass by Earth for nearly a decade. Rising in the east around 11 pm this fall, Mars will be visible earlier and earlier as an orange "star" the closer we get to December: Check out our guide to viewing Mars in your own backyard.
[10/12/2007] -- Sending mice to "Mars" - even a simulated Mars (Earth orbit) is tricky - bringing them back is even trickier: we have the latest report from an MIT/Georgia Tech team set to launch the Mars Gravity Biosatellite. In an age when students - not just governments and the military can loft satellites into space, the project will carry 15 mice into low Earth orbit for five weeks.
Fri., Oct. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT -- Buried alive under two metres of snow in an avalanche; internally decapitated in a car accident; or plummeting 10,000 metres to the Earth in a plane crash - these killer scenarios leave no chance for survival... or do they? Against All Odds chronicles the incredible cases of death-defying individuals and uses science to unlock the mysteries of how these people survived.
[10/04/2007] -- Icy particles are belched out of a moon's hot jets located along giant fracture lines and into the Saturnian system, says a new study that is upholding a two-year theory. The Space Science Institute has reviewed two years of pictures the Cassini spacecraft has taken of Enceladus.
[10/10/2007] -- For the first time since he was laid to rest, the world will be able to look King Tutankhamun - ruler of Egypt - in the face. Tutankhamun's mummy will be removed from his sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of his tomb in Luxor this November.
[10/09/2007] -- In the event of a pre-launch abort, astronauts readied to fly NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle into orbit and beyond could escape from the launch pad in a roller-coaster-like rail car system that starts near the top of the launch pad - 380 feet (120 metres) above ground.
[10/09/2007] -- Spouses often mirror each other's health habits, according to a new study from Yale University. That means that if your partner exercises, quits smoking, stops drinking alcohol, receives a flu shot, or undergoes a cholesterol screening, the other spouse is more likely to do the same.
[10/04/2007] -- For Incan children, the road to the sacrificial alter was longer than experts once thought, according to new findings: Hair samples from naturally-preserved child mummies reveal that the chosen children embarked on a lengthy "countdown" process in preparation for the sacrifice - as much as a year in advance.
[10/04/2007] -- "I personally believe that China will be back on the moon before we are,'' NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told a stunned group at a recent lecture in Washington D.C. "I think when that happens, Americans will not like it. But they will just have to not like it," Griffen said, just days before Space Shuttle Discovery reached the launch pad in anticipation of an October 23 launch to the International Space Station.
[10/03/2007] -- While math plays a central role in modern-day engineering, ancient Greeks found ways to build sophisticated machinery without it. Mark Schiefsky, professor of classics at Harvard, came to this conclusion after analyzing technical treaties and literary sources dating back to the fifth century B.
[10/03/2007] -- The first manned outpost on the Moon could include the mobile home of space bases and spacesuit-car hybrid vehicles, according to NASA. The agency's Lunar Architecture Team has unveiled their concepts for a planned lunar base.
[10/02/2007] -- Just when you thought you couldn't possibly get any closer to your personal computer, new research out of Tufts University seeks to take the relationship one step further. A team of scientists is developing computer technology that seeks not only to detect but also to respond to users' thoughts.