News

  1. Astronomy

    A dwarf with a disk

    The Hubble Space Telescope has examined in unprecedented detail a ring of debris around a star that could be the nearest and youngest known home for planets outside the solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Earth

    Ocean-sensor project reaches milestone

    Oceanographers seeking to deploy an armada of 3,000 robotic probes to take the pulse of Earth's oceans have passed the halfway mark and hope to have the full array of sensors in place by 2007.

    By Sid Perkins
  3. Humans

    Helping patients decipher options

    Scientific publishers and research organizations are preparing to launch a Web site that will make new research findings available to the public in an easy-to-understand context.