Flame Dances on Board Space Station
Starting a fire on the International Space Station might not sound like such a good idea. [More]
View ArticleBlack Hole May Eat Asteroids
At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is a supermassive black hole. It weighs as much as four million suns. The black hole is hefty, but it's pretty tranquil most of the time. [More]
View ArticleJohn Glenn Orbited 50 Years Ago Today
“This is Friendship 7 . Have beautiful view of the African Coast.” [More]
View ArticleMars May Still Be Quaking
What's shaking on Mars? A new study suggests that tremors may have rattled the Red Planet just millions of years ago. These earthquakes, well, Marsquakes, could even be ongoing today. That would mean...
View ArticleDark Matter Clump Furrows Brows
Dark matter. It’s hard to see, it’s hard to study and it just won’t behave. There’s plenty dark matter around. It’s just that no one knows what it is. It only makes its presence felt through its...
View Article"Man in the Moon" Facing Factors Figured
Why is the far side of the moon on, well, the far side of the moon? [More]
View ArticleMars Makes Movie Execs See Red
“We open on a lone soldier walking through the desert. The year: 1861. The place: Mars!” [More]
View ArticleMartian Water Stuck in Minerals
Mars today is pretty dry. But billions of years ago, water flowed across the Red Planet. It ran in rivers that carved deep valleys. And it may have even filled a Martian ocean inside what today look...
View ArticleSpace Shuttles Head for Final Destinations
“And nose gear touchdown, and the end of a historic journey. And to the ship that has led the way time and time again, we say farewell, Discovery. ” In 2011 space shuttle Discovery completed its final...
View ArticleBallooning Star Split Planet in Two
In about five billion years, Earth is going into the broiler. The sun will swell up into a red giant, engulfing us and the other inner planets . And that'll be that. [More]
View ArticleGamma-Ray Bursts Found Innocent in Ray Case
Earth is under siege from outer space! In a way. We get peppered by speedy particles, called cosmic rays, all the time. Some come from the sun, some from supernovas and some via solar-style winds...
View ArticleEarth Was Longtime Asteroid Punching Bag
An asteroid impact is widely blamed for killing off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. An asteroid 10 kilometers wide struck the Yucatan peninsula and left a giant crater. It also tossed up enough...
View ArticleZeppelin Searches for California Meteorite
Gold Country is now meteorite country. On May 3rd scientists inspected the northern California countryside from the air for fragments of the so-called Sutter’s Mill meteorite . The minivan-size space...
View ArticleAstronomers Detect Smallish Exoplanet's Infrared Glow
Here’s a hot topic: astronomers have detected infrared radiation from a faraway planet not much bigger than our own. [More]
View ArticleAnnular Eclipse Hits U.S. Sunday
Lucky sky-watchers in the western U.S. are in for a treat Sunday: an annular eclipse. [More]
View ArticleSpaceX Private Vessel Reaches ISS
It may lack the poetry of “the Eagle has landed,” but here’s major space news: the Dragon has docked. [More]
View ArticleSpaceX Dragon Returns to Earth from ISS
“And the SpaceX team is confirming that Dragon has successfully splashed down at 10:42 A.M. Central Time. Dragon is in the water.” NASA Mission Control, announcing that the first commercial spacecraft...
View ArticleAstronomers Seek Biggest Stars
How big can a star get? Based on observations, astronomers think there's a limit of about 150 times the mass of the sun for the vast majority of stars. [More]
View ArticleSuper-Earth Exoplanets Could Be Better for Life
Earth is the only planet we know of that harbors life. But could some exoplanets be even better for life? [More]
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