Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: As Japan gears up to send the first working solar sail into deep space in a couple of months, the Planetary Society is moving ahead with its own solar-sail project. You can put your name on both sails … if you act now. Planetary Society - Solar sail - Orbit - Alan Boyle - Technology

While the planet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Mars continues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eye planet, Saturn, is now enjoying its finest month in 2010. Saturn - Venus - Mars - Earth - Solar System

The big bang was the beginning of the universe as we know it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the last? Big Bang - Big Bang Theory - Television - Cosmology - Arts

NASA is ready to test the X-37, a new "mini" shuttle, without a crew. WESH's Dan Billow reports. (NBC News Channel) NASA - Space - Space Shuttle - WESH - Technology

The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary decorations in our solar system, but are also cosmic gems festooned with unknown red material and some tricky dynamic forces that shape them. Solar System - Rings of Saturn - Saturn - Cassini - Space