Jason Major
An “Elemental” Explanation of Dark Matter
Atoms, string theory, dark matter, dark energy... there's an awful lot about the Universe that might make sense on paper…
Feeling Small in the Universe?
Well, you shouldn't be. Yes, you're just one person out of over 7 billion on Earth. Yes, your lifetime --…
Say Cheese: Cassini to Snap Another “Pale Blue Dot” Picture of Earth
Citizens of Earth, get ready for your Cassini close-up: once again the spacecraft is preparing to capture images of Saturn…
Venus’ Winds Are Mysteriously Speeding Up
High-altitude winds on neighboring Venus have long been known to be quite speedy, whipping sulfuric-acid-laden clouds around the superheated planet…
Earth-Passing Asteroid is “An Entirely New Beast”
On the last day of May 2013 asteroid 1998 QE2 passed relatively closely by our planet, coming within 6 million kilometers...…
Details of Yuri Gagarin’s Tragic Death Revealed
On the morning of April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin lifted off aboard Vostok 1 to become the first…
Navy Researchers Put Dark Lightning to the SWORD
Discovered "by accident" by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful -- yet invisible…
Plastic Protection Against Cosmic Rays?
It could work, say researchers from the University of New Hampshire and the Southwest Research Institute. One of the inherent dangers…
Cassini Captures Saturn’s Darkest Rings
The closest to the planet itself, the hazy arcs of Saturn's D ring may lack the reflective brilliance and sharply-defined…
An Early Start for Noctilucent Clouds
The season for noctilucent "night-shining" clouds is arriving in the northern hemisphere, when wispy, glowing tendrils of high-altitude ice crystals…