Planets and sisters collide in Melancholia, a tale about the end of the world. 

After fifty years of space exploration, the final frontier has already become littered. Currently, NASA is looking at ways to mitigate space litter to lessen its potential threat on future space efforts.

With increasing requests for space in the Straight, the Student Union Board decided to close the ceramics studio to the dismay of many of its users.

The space shuttle, Discovery, is scheduled as the second to last mission for the program.  Its last mission, originally scheduled for Monday, Nov. 1, was postponed several times this month.  The earliest date the shuttle can now launch is Dec. 17.

Congress passed a bill last semester, effectively ending the Space Shuttle program, potentially freeing up budgetary space for larger missions, such as a trip to Mars.  In the meantime, NASA will rely on private, commercial space flights and international partnership for access to the space station.

The Mars rover "Spirit," which was being led by Prof. Steve Squyres, astronomy, may have finally lost power for good, after greatly exceeding all initial expectations.

People all over the world went outside Saturday night to observe the moon for the first ever International Observe the Moon Night. At Fuertes Observatory on north campus, over 300 adults and children from the university and surrounding communities gathered to view and learn about the moon. The event was organized by the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research (CRSR) and the Cornell Astronomical Society.

When are women at their highest peak of fertility? At their lowest? How can women choose between motherhood and their careers? And how does female anatomy cause such a dilemma? New research is helping women make the difficult decision, and modern technologies are allowing women to choose entirely new paths to motherhood.

Towards the end of my first year of law school I, like most of my classmates, attended a meeting in preparation for the writing competition. The writing competition is used for the law journals at Cornell to select their associates for the next year. At this meeting all the journals gave a brief presentation and distributed a handout providing information on their journal; during the presentation for one of the journals, I noticed that when they formed they originally funded themselves with a bake sale. This struck me as an excellent idea, and I decided I wanted to start my own law journal, The Cornell Journal of Space Law, which I would fund by selling cookies shaped like rocket ships, the sun, etc. (if this idea failed it was suggested to me that I should solicit Richard Branson for funds). While I never followed through with this idea, I do actually remain very interested in space law as a field, and many law students still approach me to discuss or joke about space law.