Astronomy/Cosmology
After analyzing the first powder ever drilled from the interior of a Martian rock, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered some of the key chemical...
If I knew that there was a planet with life on the far side of the galaxy, with no hope of contact with us, what would I wish for it? Not that it be...
The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought, according to a new analysis by a Penn State researcher, and some of...
Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant solar system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding...
I was both intrigued and disturbed by the recent report of a plan called Inspiration Mars to send a human couple on a flyby of Mars in the year 2018...
A network of seismographic stations recorded spectacular signals from the blast waves of the meteor that landed near Chelyabinsk, Russia, as the...
Astronomers survey the scale of the Universe by first measuring the distances to close-by objects and then using them as standard candles [1] to pin...
These days the core of the Milky Way galaxy is a pretty tame place...cosmically speaking. The galactic black hole at the center is a sleeping giant....
New theoretical modeling by Carnegie's Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter and Saturn—might have formed...
Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across—eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon—spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at...
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