Astronomy/Cosmology
After most NASA science spacecraft launches, researchers wait patiently for months as instruments on board are turned on one at a time, slowly ramped...
Former rocket scientist, who became the first private space tourist, wants to send two people on a round trip to Mars in 2018.
A US millionaire who...
You may have heard in the recent media that the world was going to end. Uh, again. Worse still, the devastation wasn’t limited to Earth; the whole...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has eaten the 1st ever samples of gray rocky powder cored from the interior of a Martian rock.
The robotic arm delivered...
There is an outside chance that a newly discovered comet might be on a collision course with Mars. Astronomers are still determining the trajectory...
We’ve currently found 867 different exoplanets, but have yet to definitely determine if one of those harbors life. How will astronomers make that...
Voracious absences at the center of galaxies, black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational...
According to a press release posted on SpaceRef and NASAWatch, Dennis Tito — the first-ever space tourist — is planning to send a human mission to...
An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations...
Gravity remains the dominant force on large astronomical scales, but when it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded...
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