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Democrats and Republicans weigh in on the financial future of NASA

This week's review winner tangles with what is respectfully known as The Terminagler; a 31mm Monster...

In a recent issue of Science Magazine, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) team of international astrophysicists reports the discovery of another new type of very high energy (VHE) gamma ray source. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of the collision early July 4 between an 820-pound projectile released by the Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1.

We successfully reached out and touched a comet... at 28,000 miles per hour.

How can you watch the planned first-of-its-kind collision between a comet and a spacecraft from Earth this weekend, even if your night skies don’t allow a direct view? <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

One of our reviewers scans the EQ6 SkyScan mount and wins the contest this week.

In a dress rehearsal for the rendezvous between NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft and comet 9P/Tempel 1, the Hubble Space Telescope captured dramatic images of a new jet of dust and gas streaming from the icy comet. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Interstellar travelers might want to detour around the star system TW Hydrae to avoid a messy planetary construction site... <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

Science fiction writer Harlan Ellison once said that the most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity... <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut (HD 216956), offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on the ring.

This week's review contest winner takes a look through Orion's wide-field Stratus eyepieces...

At a recent meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, molecular evolutionist Mitch Sogin explained how understanding the diversity of microbial life on Earth could help scientists in the search for life on other worlds.

On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. <b>NOTE: French, German, Italian, and Spanish translations follow...</b>

In the land rush known as extrasolar planet hunting, the most prized real estate is advertised as "Earth-like." On Monday, June 13, scientists raced to plant their flag on a burning hunk of rock orbiting a red star.