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• 12/12: Saturn: It is closer than it's been in decades; The best time to look will be new year's eve (NASA)
• 12/09: Meteor Showers: The Geminids, produced by the strange 3200 Phaeton, are coming up (S&T)
• 11/20: Meteor Showers: The 2003 Leonid meteor shower was a disappointment (space)
• 10/10: Meteor Showers: An unusual double Leonid shower will peak twice in November (NASA, S&T)
• 10/10: Lunar Eclipse: The second total lunar eclipse of 2003 will occur on Nov 8th (space, NASA, S&T)
• 09/26: Uranus: Where and when to spot the sixth (barely) visible naked-eye planet these days (space)
• 09/24: Comets: Comet Encke returns in October and is expected to peak at 6th magnitude (S&T)
• 09/02: Venus Transit: A rare transit of the Sun by Venus will occur on June 8, 2004 (S&T)
• 08/07: Mars: It is now so close that a small telescope will show the melting of its south polar cap (NASA)
• 07/08: Mars: Bright, star-like flares maybe visible from certains points on the surface (S&T)
• 06/20: Constellations: The story of Scorpius and Libra, and some of the stars in them (space)
• 06/13: Mars: This year it will come closer to Earth than it has in tens of thousands of years (space, S&T)

• 12/19: Infrared Telescopes: NASA releases first images by Spitzer Space Telescope (NASA, SFN, space)
• 12/17: Automation: Astronomers develop computer program that watches the skies for them (space)
• 11/07: Interplanetary Communication: Deep Space Network completes upgrades (sciencedaily, SFN)
• 11/06: Large Binocular Telescope: The first of the two 8.4-m mirrors is trucked to destination (S&T)
• 11/05: Future Missions: Candidate Small Explorer missions have been selected by NASA (SFN)
• 10/15: Space Flight: China is now the third country that has put a human in orbit (SFN)
• 10/13: SIRTF: NASA's infrared space telescoped has now been cooled and focused (SFN)
• 1`0/10: Gamma Ray Telescope: The MAGIC telescope is inaugurated on La Palma (Nature)
• 09/19: Solar Sail: Launch of Cosmos-1 spacecraft delayed until spring of 2004 (planetary)
• 09/12: Why Space? The top ten reasons why we should support NASA's programs (space)
• 09/04: SIRTF: Infrared space telescope launched in August takes first photographs (space, SFN, S&T)
• 08/14: Hubble Space Telescope: NASA panel recommends more servicing missions (space, SFN)
• 07/31: Propulsion Technology: NASA's ion engine runs for almost 5 years without problems (spaceref)
• 07/30: Telescopes: Plans for building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope to map the night sky (space)
• 07/29: Telescopes: World's largest astronomical CCD camera installed on Palomar telescope (spaceref)
• 07/22: FUSE Satellite: Scientists reprogram onboard computers for extended mission (space, SFN)
• 07/19: Ground-Based Telescopes: Judge delays construction of new telescopes on Mauna Kea (space)
• 07/08: Space Exploration: Rees says manned missions should be left to private initiative (Foreign Policy)
• 07/01: Ground-Based Telescopes: Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph rivals space telescope (space)
• 06/30: Space-Based Telescopes: Canada's first space telescope successfully launched (spaceref)
• 06/27: Young Astronomers: Study finds that the majority of them are women (SFN)
• 06/23: Space Agencies: Europeans call for large increase in European space research efforts (spaceref)
• 06/18: Space Tourism: Tourist seats open on Soyuz for future International Space Station trip (space)
• 06/15: Space Tourism: X Prize Foundation rejects Gravity Control Technology's entry (space)
• 06/10: Hubble Space Telescope: A NASA panel discusses its future (space); 7/31 update (space, S&T)
• 06/04: Automated Telescopes: New robotic telescopes scan and monitor the sky automatically (space)

• 12/12: Magnetic Field: The Earth's magnetic field has decreased by 10% over 150 years (space, NASA)
• 12/10: Auroras: High-altitude auroras may appear outside the ISS's 400-km high orbit (space)
• 12/03: Magnetic Field: Occasional cracks can let solar wind particles go through (NASA, SFN)
• 10/30: Space Weather: Storm arrives as Congress plans to eliminate space weather forecasting (space)
• 10/21: Hermes: Recently rediscovered asteroid seems to be a binary (space, S&T); Viewing (NASA)
• 10/20: Hermes: Large near-Earth asteroid discovered in 1937 has been spotted again (space, S&T)
• 10/06: NEO Close Call: A small one passed 54,700 miles from Earth on 27 September (space, S&T)
• 10/06: From Space: Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made structure one can see? (space)
• 09/28: Space Rock: Meteor hits eastern India; 3 people hospitalized, 2 houses destroyed (TheStar, BBC)
• 09/10: NEO's: Panel of experts recommends that NASA expand its search, including small ones (space)
• 09/03: NEO's: Brief "scare" ends as trajectory of asteroid 2003 QQ47 is calculated (space, space)
• 08/18: X-Rays: Astronomical satellite will look at X-rays coming from our own planet (NASA)
• 07/29: NEO's: 17-year old student wins Intel award with project on measuring distances (S&T)
• 07/25: Earth's Gravity: The GRACE satellites have produced the most detailed map so far (space)
• 07/21: NEO's: Search for 90% of large asteroids by 2008 proceeds on schedule (space)
• 07/17: Asteroid Impacts: Some small rocky asteroids will explode in the atmosphere (space, spaceref)
• 06/27: Meteor Shower: The Earth might encounter the June Bootid meteor cloud tonight (NASA)

• 12/09: Solar Activity: Extensive destruction of magnetic field powers solar explosions (SFN)
• 12/02: Solar Activity: The Sun is more magnetically active than at any time in the past 1000 years (PW)
• 11/19: Solar Cycle: How the Sun flips its magnetic field every 11 years (SFN, space), BBC)
• 11/16: Solar Activity: Ulysses spacecraft provides data for 3D view of solar storms (SFN)
• 11/12: Water on the Moon? Latest radar data contradict earlier indirect evidence of thick ice (space, SFN)
• 11/12: Solar Activity: Why has the solar weather been so unseasonal lately? (NASA)
• 11/07: Moon Missions: Is NASA the best organization to plan a human return to the Moon? (space)
• 11/05: Solar Activity: Yesterday's flare could be most powerful ever seen (space, SFN); update (space)
• 11/03: Solar Activity: Three more major flares bring the total to 9 in less than two weeks (space)
• 10/30: Solar Activity: A second major space storm is headed for the Earth (space)
• 10/28: Smart-1: The spacecraft is still spiraling out of the Earth's gravitational pull (space)
• 10/28: Solar Activity: The Sun unleashed today the third most powerful flare ever recorded (space, SFN)
• 10/23: Solar Weather: Scientists compare current activity with historic 1859 storm (NASA, SFN, space)
• 09/29: Smart-1: Europe's first science mission to the Moon has been launched into space (space, SFN)
• 09/23: Moon Rock: Disappeared Apollo rock donated to Honduras in 1973 is returned (space)
• 09/16: Moon Exploration: X-ray images taken by Chandra detect abundances of elements (SFN, space)
• 08/19: Moon Exploration: India plans to send a spacecraft to the Moon by 2008 (space)
• 08/05: Moon Exploration: The ESA is getting ready to launch its first lunar mission, Smart-1 (spaceref)
• 07/21: Solar Activity: RHESSI data shows microflares play a major role in heating the corona (SFN)
• 06/19: SOHO Mission: Possible loss endangers space weather forecasts (space), communications (space)
• 06/19: Solar Activity: RHESSI data shows that flares can reach temperatures of 80 million °F (spaceref)
• 06/19: Solar Activity: Evidence for powerful 'conveyor belts' driving the 11-year cycle (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/15: Solar Surface: Scientists analyze the most detailed 3D pictures obtained so far (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/04: Moon Exploration: NASA studies possible South Pole landing sites for a future mission (space)

• 12/17: Landing: ESA's Beagle 2 probe will parachute to Mars' surface on the 25th (NASA, space, S&T)
• 12/09: Nozomi Mission: Japanese space agency abandons hope for successful mission (SFN, space)
• 12/08: Weather: Data suggest that Mars may be emerging from an ice age (space, SFN, SFN)
• 12/03: Mars Express: On-board camera snaps first picture of Mars, an unusual one (SFN)
• 11/26: Mars Odyssey: The radiation monitoring device stopped working last month (SFN)
• 11/15: Future Missions: The ESA has selected proposals for the Mars Sample Return mission (SFN)
• 11/14: Water: Pictures from Mars Global Surveyor privide more evidence for past rivers (SFN, space)
• 11/08: Past Missions: Viking missions may have failed to detect life because of the desert (SFN)
• 11/08: Surface Features: Mars is like Texas: Everything is bigger, including sand dunes (SFN, space)
• 10/24: Climate: Presence of olivine indicates that Mars has been cold and dry for a long time (SFN)
• 10/01: Future Missions: The next set will begin with Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter's launch in 2005 (space)
• 09/10: Future Missions: NASA's plan for the decade (space) needs to consider some key issues (space)
• 09/04: Water: Mars may have experienced occasional downpours (S&T), and rusted without water (S&T)
• 08/27: Surface: Scientists are figuring out how water eroded away ancient craters (S&T)
• 08/27: Opposition: Hubble Telescope takes best picture ever of Mars from Earth (SFN, S&T)
• 08/21: Search for Water: Mars Global Surveyor data give critical evidence regarding past oceans (SFN)
• 08/16: Search for Life: Ice towers may be a promising place to look, in addition to river channels (SFN)
• 08/04: Future Missions: Phoenix lander will search for water and life in northern polar region (SFN)
• 07/29: Moons: A new theory says Phobos and Deimos are fragments of an old, larger moon (space)
• 07/25: Water: Los Alamos releases new map of likely places for water (spaceref, SFN)
• 07/08: Rovers: Rover B, "Opportunity", has been launched on Mars course (SFN, space); update (space)
• 06/20: Nozomi Mission: The spacecraft is on its way to Mars after final swing-by of Earth (space, S&T)
• 06/17: Nozomi Mission: Japan's first Mars-bound probe appears to be in serious trouble (space)
• 06/17: Rovers: Rover B, "Opportunity", is scheduled for launch on June 26th (spaceref)
• 06/10: Rovers: Rover A, "Spirit", has been launched on its 7-month journey to Mars (SFN)
• 06/05: Mars Environment: The Odyssey spacecraft sees more changes and activity than expected (space)
• 06/05: Rovers: How the landing sites for the upcoming missions were chosen (space)
• 06/04: Nozomi Mission: Status of the Japanese spacecraft, due to arrive around the end of the yar (SFN)
• 06/02: Mars Express: The spacecraft and Beagle 2 lander are on their way to Mars (spaceref, SFN)

• 12/14: Planetary Rings: Their life may be lengthened by recycling of orbiting material (SFN)
• 12/12: Titan: Why this moon of Saturn is the best place to study the primordial soup of life (SFN)
• 12/05: Cassini Mission: The spacecraft has taken a great picture of its destination (space, SFN)
• 11/07: Cancelled Mission: The ESA cancels the 2011 Mercury lander mission (space, SFN)
• 10/23: Jupiter: Strange, inexplicable black spot near Jupiter's equator baffles astronomers (space)
• 10/02: Titan: Arecibo observatory reports evidence of lakes of liquid hyrocarbon (SFN, space)
• 09/24: Uranus Moons: Hubble Space Telescope discovers 2 new ones, for a total of 24 (space, SFN)
• 09/23: Titan: Caltech undergraduate helps understand weather on Saturn's moon (SFN)
• 09/21: Jupiter Mission: The next Jupiter exploration mission is on the drawing board (SFN)
• 09/21: Galileo Mission: The spacecraft has been destroyed in the atmosphere of Jupiter (BBC, SFN)
• 09/16: Galileo Mission: After 8 years, the spacecraft will plunge into Jupiter on Sunday (space)
• 09/10: Nereid: Evidence suggests that Neptune's third largest moon was captured from afar (S&T)
• 09/09: Saturn: Hubble Telescope takes some of its best pictures of the rings, seen at full tilt (space, SFN)
• 09/02: Europa: A possible explanation for the giant ice domes on its surface (SFN)
• 08/28: Huygens Mission: The considerations involved in dropping in on Titan in 2005 (spaceref)
• 07/25: Moons: Recently discovered moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus get new names (S&T)
• 07/09: Pluto: As the planet moves away from the Sun, its atmosphere heats up! (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/25: Mercury Missions: Japan and the ESA plan joint mission to land a probe on Mercury (space)
• 06/18: Venus Express: Europe and Russia sign agreement for 2005 launch (spaceref)
• 06/07: Solar System Model: The world's largest has been built in a Maine town (space)
• 06/04: Saturn Weather: Saturn's equatorial winds are decreasing (spaceref, space)
• 06/04: Jupiter Moons: A newly announced discovery brings the total to 61 (spaceref, SFN)

• 12/05: Asteroids: Sunlight pushes them around, provides a way to measure their mass (PW, SFN)
• 12/02: Comet Missions: Stardust spacecraft pinpoints its target, comet Wild-2 (SFN)
• 12/01: Size: Solar System might have been smaller until Neptune migrated outward (space, S&T)
• 11/25: Comet Missions: The Deep Impact spacecraft is being prepared for launch in 2004 (space)
• 11/23: Pluto Mission: The New Horizons mission to Pluto will study Jupiter on its way (SFN)
• 11/11: Comet Missions: ESA preparing Rosetta for its trip to Churyumov-Gerasimenko (SFN)
• 11/05: Voyager 1 Mission: Has the spacecraft reached the termination shock? (space, SFN, S&T)
• 10/15: Asteroid Tugboat: NASA is working on a safety plan against NEO threats (space)
• 10/15: Comet Missions: The panel looking into the CONTOUR failure concludes its work (SFN)
• 09/24: Comet or Asteroid? How can 133P/Elst-Pizarro have a tail and an asteroid-like orbit? (S&T)
• 09/17: Kuiper Belt: Study yields few large Kuiper Belt Objects, and none at large distances (S&T)
• 09/10: Asteroid Rotation: Solar heat can have a greater effect than explosive impacts (space, SFN)
• 09/07: Kuiper Belt: Hubble finds farthest, faintest solar system objects beyond Neptune (SFN)
• 09/05: Comet Mission: Hubble Telescope assists in preparing the Rosetta mission (SFN)
• 09/05: Pluto Mission: New Horizons funding is restored, while the ISS's is trimmed (space)
• 09/02: Halley's Comet: ESO's Very Large Telescope tracks it down 28 AU from the Sun (SFN)
• 08/12: TransNeptunian Objects: Classifying and naming objects beyond Neptune is not easy (space)
• 08/12: Asteroids: Juno has a large crater from a relatively recent collision (SFN, spaceref)
• 08/10: Dust: An increasing amount of interstellar dust has been reaching us recently (SFN, spaceref)
• 08/08: Comets: A variety of processes affect and change comets over time (SFN, spaceref, space)
• 07/28: Pluto Mission: New Horizons now appears to be threatened by budget cuts (spaceref, space)
• 07/25: Pluto Mission: Details are being worked out for the 2006 launch of New Horizons (space)
• 07/11: Future Plans: The goals for this century include the Moon, mars, asteroids, ... (space)
• 07/11: Comets: In april a NASA airplane collected dust debris from comet Grigg-Skjellerup (SFN)
• 07/02: Plans: NASA posts Solar System Exploration Roadmap online (spaceref)
• 06/19: Stardust Mission: The spacecraft is now on its path to meet comet Wild 2 (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/09: Comets: Lab experiments explain X-ray emissions by comets hit by solar wind (SFN)

• 12/15: Terminology: When is an extrasolar planetary system a "solar system"? (space)
• 12/10: Habitable Planets: Simulations indicate that Earthlike planets should be common (SFN, space)
• 12/01: Planetary Systems: More evidence that Vega has a planetary system similar to ours (SFN, space)
• 11/25: Old Planets: Astronomers will try to detect surviving planets around white dwarfs (SFN)
• 11/14: Planet Formation: Young star is seen to be forming a Jupiter-size planet (SFN)
• 11/07: Earthlike Planets: The star HD 172051 will be the top target of the Darwin mission (BBC)
• 11/07: Cancelled Mission: The ESA cancels the 2007 Eddington planet-finding mission (space, SFN)
• 10/02: Planet Searches: A good place to go to search for planets is Antarctica (space)
• 09/22: Planet Swallowing: The peculiar star V838 Mon may be engulfing its own planets (SFN)
• 09/15: Possible Worlds: Astronomers have the technology to spot Saturn-like ringed planets (S&T)
• 09/05: Possible Worlds: Some Earth-sized planets may be completely covered by oceans (S&T)
• 08/02: Habitable Planets: Looking for them around stars more massive than the Sun (SFN, spaceref)
• 07/21: Statistics: Survey finds that 20% of metal-rich stars have planets (nature, space, SFN, spaceref)
• 07/10: New Planet: Oldest known planet orbits white dwarf and neutron star (SFN, NASA, spaceref)
• 07/03: New System: Similar stellar system to our own found around star HD70642 (SFN, space)
• 06/03: Planet Formation: Dust around young stars dissipates more quickly than expected (space)

• 12/12: New Stars: Envelope of glowing gas found for the first time around massive young star (SFN)
• 12/11: Neutron Stars: Newly discovered binary provides new opportunity to test general relativity (S&T)
• 12/03: Neutron Stars: Collisions between neutron stars may be more common than we thought (space)
• 11/27: Eta Carinae: Infrared interferometer zooms in on inner details of unstable star (SFN, space)
• 11/22: Dying Stars: Astronomers observe the star V Hydrae as it transforms itself (SFN)
• 11/13: Pleiades: The cluster is slamming into two clouds of interstellar gas, not one (space, SFN)
• 10/30: Star Formation: Newly found Lynx arc is biggest and hottest known stellar nursery (space), SFN)
• 10/18: Black Holes: Europe's Integral spacecraft discovers hidden black holes (SFN)
• 10/15: Supernovas: The star HD192163 in the Crescent nebula is evolving into a supernova (space, SFN)
• 09/24: Supernovas: Astronomers are monitoring galaxies to identify future supernovas (SFN)
• 09/19: Brown Dwarfs: The closest one to us has another brown dwarf as companion (space)
• 09/15: Star Names: The truth about companies that sell star names for a fee (space)
• 09/12: Magnetars: Some stars have flares that reach us from the other side of the galaxy (NASA)
• 08/09: Eclipsing Stars: The star KH 15D started "winking" only in the past few decades (SFN)
• 08/08: Globular Clusters: Study of blue stars in NGC 6397 shows effects of collisions (SFN)
• 08/06: Supernovas: Astronomers have identified the progenitor stars of a Type Ia supernova (SFN, S&T)
• 08/06: Supernovas: First direct evidence that a supernova explosions can be egg-shaped (SFN, spaceref)
• 08/02: Open Clusters: Infrared telescope finds new young stars deep inside molecular cloud (SFN)
• 07/30: Globular Clusters: Close encounters between stars form X-ray emitting binary systems (SFN)
• 07/22: Massive Stars: Stars up to 120 solar masses seen in Milky Way nebula W49A (space)
• 07/16: Supernovas: Explosions emit large amounts of interstellar dust (SFN)
• 07/02: Pulsars: Gravitational wave emission may set upper limit to their rate of rotation (SFN, spaceref)
• 06/30: Pulsars: Jet from Vela pulsar bends and moves sideways at phenomenal speeds (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/20: Eta Carinae: Astronomers are predicting changes in the star, which may be a binary (S&T)
• 06/11: Neutron Stars: For the first time, a magnetic field has been directly measured (spaceref)
• 06/11: Rotation: The bright star Achernar is the most flattened one we know of (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/03: Variable Stars: Rho Cas may brighten and dim dramatically in the coming months (S&T)
• 06/01: Cepheids: A surprisingly large number seem to be in triple systems (spaceref)

• 12/08: Interstellar Matter: Cassini detects interstellar particles ionized near the Sun (SFN)
• 11/24: Milky Way Center: The black hole is more massive than expected and spins every 11 min! (space)
• 11/11: Milky Way: The Integral spacecraft is producing a gamma ray map of the Milky Way (SFN)
• 11/04: Canis Major Dwarf: Nearest known satellite galaxy is a dismembered corpse (space, SFN, S&T)
• 10/29: Milky Way Center: Infrared flickering shows central black hole rotates rapidly (SFN)
• 09/24: Sagittarius Dwarf: This Milky Way satellite is merging with our galaxy (space, S&T, SFN)
• 09/05: Milky Way Center: Observations show stormy plasma around central black hole (SFN, space)
• 07/09: Planetary Nebulae: Scientists try to explain why the Owl Nebula looks like an owl (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/03: Milky Way History: The RAVE project gets under way down under (SFN)

• 12/08: NGC 4261: Trail of black holes near galaxy points to past collision and merger (SFN)
• 11/12: Explosions: Strong and weak GRB's and X-ray flashes are really the same thing (SFN)
• 10/29: NGC 1637: X-ray observations show violent activity in normal-looking spiral (SFN)
• 10/05: M86: Gas stripped from the giant elliptical galaxy forms a 200,000-ly long tail (SFN)
• 10/01: NGC 4151: The galaxy is the first extragalactic object viewed by the Keck Interferometer (SFN)
• 09/22: Sounds in Space? How can a black hole emit a sound if there is no sound in space? (space)
• 09/20: GRB's: What do gamma-ray bursts look like when we don't see the gamma rays? (S&T)
• 09/18: Andromeda VIII: A ripped and torn galaxy remnant is discovered near M31 (space, SFN)
• 09/15: GRB's: University of Chicago scientists challenge the prevailing theory (SFN)
• 09/09: Black Holes: The deepest "sound" ever detected heats up a galaxy cluster (NASA, space, S&T)
• 08/14: Cosmic Rays: The highest energy ones may be produced by gamma ray bursts (spaceref, SFN)
• 08/04: GRB's: Astronomer estimates that only 1 in every 450 observable ones is currently detected (SFN)
• 07/28: NGC 1068: Chandra X-ray telescope images hot gas escaping from central black hole (SFN)
• 07/27: Star Formation: The GALEX Satellite has started sending images back to Earth (SFN, spaceref)
• 07/25: First Stars: The most distant quasar known contains gas formed by first generation stars (SFN)
• 07/22: Circinus Galaxy: The central black hole is surrounded by a pancake, not a doughnut (spaceref)
• 07/16: Quasars: Astronomers discover quadruply lensed quasar with Einstein ring (spaceref, SFN)
• 07/16: Gassy Galaxies: Newly discovered galaxies are mostly gas, with very few stars (spaceref)
• 07/16: Formation: SDSS sees relationship between galaxy and black hole formation (SFN, spaceref)
• 06/29: NGC 1068: VLT interferometer gets first look at the doughnut around a giant black hole (SFN)
• 06/26: M83: Astronomers detect "domino model" star formation pattern (spaceref)
• 06/19: GRB's: Clues of their association with supernova explosions grow stronger (spaceref)
• 06/18: Galaxy Types: Survey finds giant and dwarf ellipticals are similar in many ways (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/05: Star Clusters: The galaxy NGC 5253 has a million-star cluster inside a "supernebula" (spaceref)
• 06/01: GRB's: Solar observatory RHESSI catches burst by a lucky break (SFN)
• 06/01: New Kind: Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies had been previously overlooked (spaceref)

• 12/12: Dark Energy: Galaxy clusters 7 billion years ago suggest dark energy may not exist (SFN)
• 12/10: Star Formation: Star forming galaxy seen in Cloverleaf galaxy 11 billion ly away (SFN)
• 11/17: Early Universe: Distant X-ray jet provides clues on early microwave background (SFN)
• 11/06: Dark Matter: New theory suggests cold dark matter forms moving clumps (SFN, sciencedaily)
• 10/28: Galaxy Survey: SDSS 3D map of universe confirms evidence for dark energy (SFN, S&T)
• 10/20: Cosmology: Cosmologists meet at Case Western to discuss the present status of the field (S&T)
• 10/10: Expansion: Five billion years ago the universe began to accelerate in its expansion (SFN)
• 10/08: Shape of Space: Some evidence suggests that the universe is finite, although almost flat (space)
• 09/19: Galaxy Formation: Submillimeter images show light from the first galaxies (SFN)
• 09/18: Early Universe: Studies reveal galaxy crowding and violent explosions (space, SFN)
• 08/13: Future Universe: Some astronomers predict a dim future as stars burn out (spaceref, space)
• 08/11: Dark Matter: Astronomers see evidence in disruption of dwarf satellite galaxies (SFN)
• 07/25: Dark Matter: Team measures size and shape of dark matter halo around galaxies (SFN, spaceref)
• 07/25: Dark Matter: Its distribution in the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal is not as expected (spaceref)
• 07/23: Visible Universe: There are about 70 sextillion stars (space); How come we see so few? (space)
• 07/21: Dark Energy: New study confirms existence of dark energy (spaceref, space)
• 07/17: Dark Matter: Hubble Space Telescope maps its distribution in one galaxy cluster (SFN)
• 07/17: Early Universe: DEEP2 Redshift Survey gets map of early galaxy distribution (spaceref, SFN)
• 07/17: Cosmic Orphans: Globular clusters seen wandering in intergalactic space (space, SFN)
• 07/16: Neutrinos: AMANDA detector produces tentative map of cosmic neutrino sources (space, SFN)
• 07/08: Dark Matter: Part of it may be "superWIMPS" that interact only gravitationally (spaceref)
• 06/19: Star Formation: Intense star formation rate dropped off about 7 Gyr ago (space, spaceref, SFN)
• 06/11: Dark Matter: Most of the matter in one galaxy cluster is cold dark matter (spaceref, space)

• 11/20: Mass Extinctions: Study claims asteroid killed most life on Earth 250 Myr ago (space)
• 11/11: Interstellar Communication: Could ET signals come with ET viruses? (space)
• 10/31: Search for Life: NASA is preparing tiny biological labs on CD's for future missions (SFN)
• 10/02: Life on Earth: The range of conditions that allow life is wider than we thought (NASA)
• 09/26: Mass Extinctions: Scientist casts doubt on accepted view of dinosaur extinction (SFN)
• 07/30: Life on Earth: Newly found lake microbe lives in possible Mars-like conditions (NASA)
• 07/16: Life on Earth: NASA research center will study possible origin from comets (spaceref, SFN)
• 06/19: SETI: One scientist's thoughts on astrobiology and her career in SETI research (space)
• 06/13: Mass Extinctions: The oldest evidence for an impact-related extinction is 380 Myr old (spaceref)

• 11/18: Subatomic Particles: X(3872) seems to require an explanation beyond the standard model (BBC)
• 11/17: Gravity: Launch of NASA's Gravity Probe B delayed until 2004 by technical bug (SFN)
• 10/15: Superluminal Propagation: One more experiment shows that it does not violate causality (SFN)
• 10/02: Gravity: Signals received from Cassini provide the best test so far of general relativity (S&T, SFN)
• 08/06: Time: A new controversial proposal claims that the flow of time does not exist (space)
• 07/13: Gravity: NASA's Gravity Probe B arrives at Vandenburg AFB for launch preparations (spaceref)
• 07/02: Solar Sails: Scientist claims they cannot work because they would violate laws of physics (spaceref)
• 06/28: Gravitational Waves: Italian-French interferometer Virgo to be inaugurated on July 23rd (spaceref)
• 06/13: Quark-Gluon Plasma: Reproducing matter as it appeared right after the Big Bang (spaceref, space)