Cosmic Ray is Moving
Cosmic Ray is joining his blogger colleagues as part of Discovery News Space coverage.  Check out the expanded Discovery News Space team to follow my future posts. Thanks for visiting!

Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
Because of increasing light pollution, the most spectacular structure in the sky is seen by fewer and fewer people these days – the Milky Way. During the summer months you are in fact peering in the direction of the downtown hub of our pinwheel galaxy.  The central region straddles the constellations

Alien Abductions: Idiocy of the Worst Kind
Today the much-hyped film, “The Fourth Kind,” debuts in theaters with a predictable poster of a pair of other-worldly eyes staring out.Sci-fi film buffs will remember Steven Spielberg’s sappy 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” where flying saucers outfitted with disco lights buzz lone cars and farmhouses, and in a messianic end

Color-Challenged Astronomers Are Lost in a Latte' Universe
God was sitting up late one night designing the universe. He took care of simple things first. Gravity would construct stars, galaxies and planets. Biological evolution would ensure a robust diversity of life forms.But what color to make the universe?  God looked down into his foamy cup of latte' and decided that the color beige would be just perf

The Night The Martians Took Broadway!
The Balloon Boy saga from a couple weeks ago will go down in mass media history as one of the great hoaxes. Network news was riveted on following the wayward balloon for over two hours because they were convinced there was a stowaway child onboard. Maybe we were prime