Space walking

This NASA handout shows Astronaut Tim Kopra. US space shuttle Endeavour astronauts were to venture into open space today on the mission's second spacewalk aimed at helping complete the International Space Station (AFP).

• New Galileo book raises religious, science issues
  DALLAS (Reuters Life!) - The current struggles between religion and science in areas such as evolution and "intelligent design" are thrown into sharp relief in a new book about the Italian astronomer Galileo and his trial by the Roman Inquisition.
• Crowds flock to Bangladeshi town for full solar eclipse
  DHAKA (AFP) - A tiny town in northern Bangladesh is braced for a rare taste of mass tourism as thousands of people pour in to witness a full solar eclipse this Wednesday.
• Solar eclipse: Of celestial mechanics and the Eye of God
  PARIS (AFP) - Total solar eclipses have struck awe or fear into hearts for millennia, but scientists are more interested in the unusual mathematics behind the gold-and-indigo lightshow.
• Asia will witness 21st century's longest eclipse
  BANGKOK - Millions of people across Asia will witness the longest total solar eclipse that will happen this century, as vast swaths of India and China, the entire city of Shanghai, and southern Japanese islands are plunged into darkness Wednesday for about five minutes.
• NASA Secretly launched Apollo 11 Moon rock to space
  Forty years to the day after it was found and collected by Neil Armstrong, a moon rock is helping NASA mark the anniversary of the first lunar landing from onboard a perch that is closer than any Apollo-returned lunar sample has ever come to its original home.
• Astronauts to mark Apollo Moon landing with spacewalk
  Astronauts will unload some spare parts for the International Space Station Monday in a spacewalk that comes 40 years to the day of the first moon landing by men from Earth.
• China dust cloud circled globe in 13 days
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Dust clouds generated by a huge dust storm in China's Taklimakan Desert in 2007 made more than one full circle around the globe in just 13 days, a Japanese study using a NASA satellite has found.