If you really love rocket launches and new satellites blasting into orbit, here's some free porn. It's the Kepler launch we told you about Thursday. Burns "2,200lbs of propellant per second." Hot!......

What looks like a large burrito wrapped in tin foil, is designed to find habitable planets, and is sitting—inside a Delta II rocket—on Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral AFS, ready for......

    I am an American worker, and you are damn right I want the wealth to be shared and spread. I am talking about the wealth my hard work helped to create, but was taken from me by George Bush's base, the very rich, or as I know them, my corporate bosses. For the past eight years...

Planet hunters are having a field day. This week, astronomers announced the discovery of three so-called “super Earths� orbiting a star some 42 light years away. Super Earths are planets with masses less than Neptune’s but greater than Earth’s. The planets are hanging tight with their host s...

Left to Right: Alex Beckstead, the director of Paperback Dreams, Leslie Berkler of Cody's Books, Clark Kepler of Kepler's Books, and Andy Ross of Cody's Books. BEA is one big blur of conversation, interspersed with long walks carrying extremely heavy bags bulging with books. Of course there are lots...