space race

Venus is now starting an extraordinary cycle. Also called the evening star, it’s not the least bit hard to find. It will spend the next nine months in the west after sunset, slowly growing higher and brighter.

In science, coincidences grab attention. Our sky has just two disks, the sun and the moon, and both appear the same size. That’s what let that amazing total solar eclipse happen this past April. And we have the best north star of the past 26,000 years. Some people think there are no coincidences, that everything is connected. This week: Coincidences.

Today home to the global headquarters for semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries, Luther Forest in Malta and Stillwater, New York was once home to another kind of advanced technology.

Former President Clinton speechwriter Jeff Shesol's new book, "Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy and the New Battleground of the Cold War" sheds…

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend twenty billion dollars to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.Based on…