I received an email earlier this week about a new Citizen Science Project called Planet 9. Citizen Science is an effort to get the public to help out with time intensive science tasks, and there's ... (349 words)

The US$3.3 billion Cassini mission is about to rendezvous with Saturn, but if some had had their way the robot probe would never have left the ground. Dr Kevin Grazier, a scientist from Nasa's Jet ... (1132 words)

Claire Le Couteur reports from the 2003 Skeptics' Conference in Wellington. This year's conference, held at Victoria University, began with a social gathering followed by a presentation by artist and ... (739 words)

For almost half a century, it's seemed like human destiny to go into Space. When we were kids, everyone wanted to be an astronaut when they grew up. The loss of the Columbia space shuttle hasn't ... (517 words)

Netsurfer Science is a website every skeptic should bookmark. It provides a good lead-in to many science and skeptic-related sites and issues on the web. Here are a couple of recent items. Howling at ... (450 words)

ROBERT Temple's book The Sirius Mystery suggests that astronauts from Sirius visited Earth in ancient times, 5000 years or more ago. These beings were amphibious humanoids, with the lower body ... (1428 words)

Oh My God, it's the End of the World! Again! IN A RECENT Herald report, alarmist forecasts for May 5, 2000 speak of an "alignment" of the six inner planets, the Sun and the Moon, "for the first time ... (647 words)

There is no "face" on the Red Planet, according to pictures sent back from the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor. The BBC's science correspondent says the news will dampen down the controversy that has ... (373 words)

IT'S a damned rotten trick, I know, but I rang up my mum and asked her a simple question, does the Earth go round the Sun, or is it the other way around? She wasn't sure, but felt the most obvious, ... (713 words)

Following the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult, Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, released a statement at a press conference in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He began by reading from Carl ... (995 words)

THE other day I was doing a spot of painting with the help of a friend. She was telling me about a fancy dress party she'd gone to, and how some friends had dressed up all in green, as aliens. "They ... (598 words)