Rocky, Low-Mass Planet Discovered by Microlensing
[/caption] In planet hunting today, there seems to be one burning question that nearly every new article published touches…
EPOXI Encounters Energetic Comet Hartley 2
[/caption] No, EPOXI isn't the name of a new super glue, but an abbreviation for the continuation of Deep Impact.…
A New Way to do Science? Live-Tweeting Observations of Haumea
[/caption] Back when I first started using Twitter in 2008, I never would have guessed this social media outlet could…
Black Hole Devours Star and Hurls Energy Across 3.8 Billion Light Years
[/caption] Engaging the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers at the University of Warwick were…
Baby Black Holes Grew Up Fast
[/caption] For more than six weeks, the watchful eye of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory kept track of a small portion…
Could You Head Up DARPA’s 100-Year Starship Program?
[/caption] Since January of this year, DARPA and NASA have been publicly talking about a 100-year starship program. They’ve held…
New Clues To Solving Physics Riddle
[/caption] There are diminutive visitors to Earth. We've known about them and measured their presence since the 1960s. When the…
Hubble’s Stunning New View of Centaurus A
[/caption] From a HubbleSite press release: Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the…
The Final Countdown: A Tweetup Journal
On July 8, less than a month from now, the last remaining space shuttle is slated to launch from Cape…
Lunar Eclipse Images from Around the World; June 15, 2011
[/caption] Now updated with more images and video! It was an event that hasn’t happened in 11 years and won’t…