With the rise of the Hollywood film industry in the 1920s and thereafter, the world came to recognize that fame, like American automobiles or hot dogs, could also be manufactured and successfully marketed. In a democratic, officially classless culture,...

A star system or stellar system is a small number of stars which orbit each other,[1] bound by gravitational attraction. A large number of stars bound by gravitation is generally called a star cluster or galaxy, although, broadly speaking, they are also...

Scientists need help sorting through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.They are asking volunteers on the Internet to help classify the galaxies as either elliptical or spiral and note, where possible, in which direction they rotate. It would be the...

Astronomers have taken a baby step in trying to answer the cosmic question of where we come from.Planets and much on them, including humans, come from dust _ mostly from dying stars. But where did the dust that helped form those early stars come from?A...

The government's crash-test program should take into account collision avoidance technologies and make the results more meaningful for new car buyers, safety officials said Wednesday.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration held a daylong hearing with automakers, suppliers and safety advocates to discuss changes to the...

Two dozen 2007 passenger vehicles received top scores in government crash ratings Tuesday under a system that is expected to be revised to offer more meaningful information for car buyers.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said 17 sport utility vehicles received five stars in front-end...