Venus Eclipsed by the Moon on Earth Day, 2009

  Mother Nature celebrated Earth Day this year with some  fireworks of her own.  The Lyrid Meteor Shower peaked the morning of April 22, followed by the moon eclipsing the planet Venus...

Lyrid Meteor Shower and Planetary Eclipse set for Wednesday

Every once in a while Mother Nature provides the citizens of planet Earth with a spectacle that no one should miss.  Sometimes it’s an incredible lightning display with thundering echoes, and at other...

Space Shuttles Will Be Sold After 2010 Retirement - NASA

NASA has announced that the final three Space Shuttles will be sold after they are retired in 2010.  After nearly 30 years of service, and over 120 missions into orbit, NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet will...

The Last Oil Well

With oil corporations raking in record profits around the globe, and fuel prices reaching ridiculous levels at the pumps over the past summer, people are beginning to look beyond the tips of their noses and...

Scientists Find Canadian Meteorite

Planetary scientist Alan Hildebrand and graduate student Ellen Milley from the University of Calgary discovered fragments of the ten ton meteorite that fell near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border on the evening...

Meteorite Hunter Offers $10,000 Reward for Canadian Meteorite

A bright meteor streaked across the skies of Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada on November 20, 2008 at approximately 5:26 PM MST, prompting telephone calls to police stations, NORAD, and news stations from North...

Massive Fireball Falls Over Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada

A bright meteor streaked across the skies of Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada on November 20, 2008 at approximately 5:26 PM MST, prompting telephone calls to police stations, NORAD, and news...

Changing the Course of the World's Fuel Future

Each morning, Alex Conger rises from bed at 5am, climbs the stairs to his home office, and fires up his computer.  Several monitors flicker to life and almost immediately chat windows begin to appear on one...

The Orionid Meteors have Arrived -

If you happen to be up before dawn on the morning of Tuesday, October 21, you may want to grab a jacket and head outside to watch the sky around the constellation Orion.  The annual Orionid Meteor Shower...

Travel Alert - Mexico

  If you are traveling through the San Jose Del Cabo airport near Cabo San Lucas,

Where Have all the Sunspots Gone?

If you’re a HAM radio buff, chances are you have been making some long distance connections over the last few weeks with very little interference from the upper atmosphere.  You owe thanks in part to...

Chinese Food and the VP Debates

 Before the vice presidential debate began last night, my girlfriend and I hit our favorite Chinese food restaurant, ran into the local quick mart for a couple sodas, and then curled up on the couch to watch...

Evacuate the Coasts - For Good

    Before humans arrived on the scene nearly 100,000 years ago, the earth experienced climatic changes at somewhat regular intervals.  Ice sheets expanded and melted, droughts and floods ravaged...