THE 'SCOPES HAVE EYES: Many scientists believe that ground-based telescopes with cutting-edge adaptive optics could very well produce images of even better resolution than Hubble (at least in the infrared region of the spectrum, when is where AO works best)...

YURI'S NIGHT - CELEBRATIING SPACE 'ROUND THE WORLD: For the past two years, I've served as the director of media relations for Yuri's Night. Ok... now I know you're asking, "What's Yuri's Night?"...

2009 - EXPECT ASTRONOMICAL AWESOMENESS:The International Year of Astronomy in a sentence? Galileo changed the course of human knowledge by peering into a telescope in 1609 -- making 2009 the 400th anniversary of total awesomeness...

THE COLUMBIA REPORT, PART 1 & 2: Having survived the initial breakup of the space shuttle, astronauts aboard Columbia were doomed by failed shoulder harnesses and helmets that allowed too much movement for the head, a new report about the 2003 U.S. space disaster released Tuesday finds...

THE TOP 10 NIGHT SKY EVENTS FOR 2009: Here's my take on the best predictable celestial events for 2009, the International Year of Astronomy, when we celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo's use of the telescope to explore the sky...

NEW YEAR'S EVE ON ALPHA CENTAURI: For an alien civilization living in a multiple star system, there are unique super-grand astronomical alignments that may have a big cultural and religions impact...