Discovered: Nearby Planets that Could Host Life
MIT researchers found three potentially habitable planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star. Three planets, just 40 light years away from…
Category: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Hubble Space Telescope Got the GOODS!
The Hubble Space Telescope has been conducting a deep-sky survey called “Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North,” or GOODS North.
Painting the Way to the Moon: An Impressionist Portrayal of a Rocket Scientist
By Dan Spengler Ed Belbruno is a self-admitted motormouth. Painting the Way to the Moon, a new documentary about the…
Gamma Rays from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
After traveling for about half the age of the universe, a flood of powerful gamma rays from a distant galaxy…
We May Send Humans to Mars by 2030
Our partners at ResearchGate recently spoke with Alfonso Davila from SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, about what draws us…
Comet Lovejoy Delivers Free Alcohol
By Kate Stone Comet Lovejoy recently released large amounts of alcohol and sugar into space, according to new observations by…
Total Lunar Eclipse of the Heart
By Max Goldberg The lunar eclipse is something a person can see only a few times in a lifetime. Luckily…
Comet Carries Building Blocks of Life
Many of us learned in school that comets were lifeless balls of frozen gas and dust hurtling through space. In…
Apollo 11 Astronauts’ Customs Form
Customs declaration forms are familiar documents to international travelers. But what about space travelers? When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed…
New Horizon’s Pluto Flyby
NASA’s spacecraft New Horizons entered its closest approach with Pluto yesterday, as part of its nine-year mission to study the…