LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States, including Gillette, and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
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'Ring of Fire' eclipse visible from China to Texas
- May 17 2012
- Associated Press
Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon! Due Saturday
- May 04 2012
- MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The biggest and brightest full moon of the year will arrive Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.
Space shuttle Enterprise arrives at NY's JFK
- April 27 2012
- DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - An unusual flying object has landed at New York's Kennedy Airport.
Space shuttle Enterprise to arrive in NY on Friday
- April 27 2012
- DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Look! Up in the sky! It's a ... space shuttle?
Space shuttle Discovery lands at new home near DC
- April 17 2012
- SETH BORENSTEIN and BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery has landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, where its wheels will stop for the last time at the Smithsonian.
Space shuttle Discovery ready for voyage to museum
- April 16 2012
- MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery has one last mission to complete.
NASA launches suborbital rockets from Virginia
- March 27 2012
- Associated Press
ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) - After several delays, NASA has launched five rockets from Virginia that are part of a study of the jet stream.
NASA reschedules Va. suborbital rocket launches
- March 21 2012
- Associated Press
ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) - Bad weather has prompted NASA to reschedule the launch of five rockets from its Wallops Facility in Virginia. The rockets are part of a study of the upper-level jet stream.
Solar storm not nearly as bad as could have been
- March 09 2012
- Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists say the solar storm could have been worse.
Big solar storm reaches Earth; no trouble reported
- March 08 2012
- SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The largest solar storm in five years has engulfed Earth, but scientists say the planet has lucked out so far.
Scientists see red on NASA cuts of Mars missions
- February 27 2012
- Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Upset scientists want to make sure the U.S. doesn't give up on future Mars exploration because of a tight federal budget.
Venus, Jupiter, moon offer dazzling night show
- February 23 2012
- MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Stargazers of the world are getting a treat this weekend.
An alien world resides just outside our solar system
- February 01 2012
- administrator
A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide with the material that fills the rest of the galaxy, at a complex boundary called the heliosheath.
Sandia Labs engineers create 'self-guided' bullet
- February 01 2012
- Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet that could help war fighters. New Mexico-based Sandia National Laboratories says its engineers have done just that. They invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile.
Space Shuttle Discovery headed to the Smithsonian
- January 24 2012
- Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection.
