Why Trapping Somebody In Space Only Takes A Breeze (And Other Highlights From Expedition 40)
Imagine that you were in the middle of a module on the International Space Station. Floating in mid-air, far from…
Book Review and Giveaway: Max Goes To the Space Station – Children’s Books
Book review by David L. Hamilton Jeffery Bennett’s Max Goes to the Space Station is the newest addition to the…
Zoom to the Moon’s North Pole with this Incredible New Gigapixel Map
OMG - breathtaking! That was my reaction when I clicked on this incredible new interactive map of the moon's north…
Surf’s Up on Titan! Cassini May Have Spotted Waves in Titan’s Seas
It's no surprise that Titan's north polar region is covered with vast lakes and seas of liquid methane -- these…
First Microlensing Detection of a Planet Circling a Brown Dwarf Candidate
When astronomers detect new exoplanets they typically do so using one of two techniques. First, there's the famous transit technique,…
Dusty Galaxies Shine Across The Universe In New Herschel Survey
While dust is easy to ignore in small quantities (says the writer looking at her desk), across vast reaches of…
We’ve Discovered Inflation! Now What?
Days like these make being an astrophysicist interesting. On the one hand, there is the annoucement of BICEP2 that the…
Get Set For Comet K1 PanSTARRS: A Guide to its Spring Appearance
Get those binoculars ready: an icy interloper from the Oort cloud is about to grace the night sky. The comet…
That Moment When the “Father of Inflation” Learns of the Detection of Gravitational Waves
Andrei Linde, a professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University, is one of the main authors of the…
Carnival of Space #344
The tent is up! This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Kimberly Arcand at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory blog.…