The final frontier got a bit closer today as Microsoft Corp. officially launched the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org.

Friendswood native and Texas A&M student Justin Barba is one of 15 students selected to spend the summer working with scientists at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) through a National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) internship.

Eight leading scientific organizations will release a document Wednesday calling for the next presidential administration and Congress to better protect the nation from the impacts of severe weather and climate change.

There's an episode of Ghost Hunters , the reality show on the Sci Fi Channel that follows Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson -- Roto-Rooter plumbers by day, ghost busters by night! -- where the duo ends up in a Florida lighthouse in pitch darkness, alone.

by Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2008 When comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event. Their quest was to find out why the comet had sudde