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"Grave Mistake,"a film by New Mexico film producer Shawn Darling, will premiere at midnight Saturday on the Las Cruces Channel, Comcast channel 98 Written by Darling, who is the owner and CEO of Gryphon's Egg Productions.

Telescopes on seven continents will observe 243 distant quasars. Provided by NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico Very Long Baseline Array.

Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the reference frame scientists use to measure positions in the sky.

Artist JosA© Cisneros, some of whose images on tile are on permanent display at the Fray AngA©lico ChA vez History Library in Santa Fe, died Saturday at his home in El Paso.

Several New Mexico communities have received $1 million in federal grants to improve distance learning and telemedicine.

New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union has opened a new branch office in the Northeast Heights at 8321 Palomas NE, near Paseo del Norte and Barstow.

Get our new Windows 7 eBook for $7 with 70+ Tips. Download Now ! Thursday, November 5th, 2009 by leftystrat No Related Post Lonnie Zamora , former policeman in Socorro, New Mexico, passed away the other day from heart failure.

Anthony Bragalia continues his research in to the Socorro UFO incident in 1964 which now seems more like a prank than a genuine encounter thanks to material clues and physical evidence found at the site.

Thanks to new tools, scientists are quickly mapping the stars. By Robert C. Cowen November 2, 2009 edition Astronomers are filling in the blank spaces on their 3-D map of our universe thanks to their ability to sense almost every conceivable form of electromagnetic radiation.

In New Mexico's early-day history, one can find scattered references to the ways those who came before us preserved their food.

Mysterious radio blips that come from apparently empty regions of space may be the voices of long-dead stars.

New Mexico national security initiatives in Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Socorro will receive $43 million in federal funding.

Lavina Hayes of Deming stuffs her purse with free compact fluorescent light bulbs Tuesday during a weatherization celebration sponsored by the Community Action Agency at the A. Fielder Memorial Safe Haven on North Tornillo Street.

On an equatorial shoreline 280 million years ago, the receding tide stranded ancient jellyfish and other sea life on the sandy beaches.

A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time.

Airbags have saved countless lives over the years in car crashes. Now they're set to save lives in another way: by stopping rocket propelled grenades.

New Mexico Tech scientists think they've found the largest spring yet in the upper Rio Grande, a few miles south of the Colorado border near Ute Mountain.

Two of the nation's premier birding festivals will be held in November, one in Socorro, NM, and the other in Harlingen.

No place seems safe from the prying eyes of inquisitive astronomers. They've traced the evolution of the universe back to the "Big Bang," the theoretical birth of the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago, but there's still a long stretch of time -- about 800 million years -- that's been hidden from view.

Enrollment numbers at Western New Mexico University are at an all-time high, according to university officials.