Conservation of Mass
[/caption]While it may offend anyone currently trying to lose that holiday weight, it is a classic physical law that in…
Powerful Mars Orbiter Directs Opportunity to Clays and Hydrated Minerals
[/caption] NASA is using its powerful science surveyor orbiting more than 241 kilometers above Mars to target the surface explorations…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 209: Exotic Life
We don’t like to cover news on Astronomy Cast, but sometimes there’s a news story that’s interesting, complicated, and rapidly…
Solving the Mystery of Dark Gamma Ray Bursts
[/caption] Unraveling the mystery of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is a story filled with international intrigue, fantastic claims, serious back-tracking,…
Can Nearby Binary Star Systems Mimic Planets?
The vast majority of the known exoplanets have been discovered by the radial velocity method. This method employs the effects…
Herschel Looks Back in Time to See Stars Bursting to Life
[/caption] From a Royal Astronomical Society Press release: Astronomers have found the first conclusive evidence for a dramatic surge in…
LOFAR Swedish Station Begins Construction
[/caption] Robert Cumming from the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden sent us this image, letting us know that construction has…
Scientists from Arsenic Bacteria Paper Respond to Criticisms
Backlash from the "arsenic life" paper that was published on December 2, is still ongoing. Some of the criticism has…
Where In The Universe #129
Here’s this week’s image for the Where In The Universe Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You…
Bright White Storm Raging on Saturn
[/caption] About a week ago, a bright white storm emerged on Saturn's northern hemisphere, and amateur astronomer/planet astrophotographer extraordinaire Anthony…