Astronomy
Prying Planets Out of The Shadows: The Gemini Planet Imager’s First Year of Light
This year marks the 20th anniversary of 51 Peg b, the first exoplanet detected around a Sun-like star. And although…
Kepler Targets Supermassive Black Hole
With only an introductory course in science, it’s easy to think that scientists strictly follow the scientific method. They propose…
New Finds From Kepler: 8 New Worlds Discovered in the Habitable Zone
A fascinating set of finds was announced today at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), currently underway…
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By Boots or Bots? How Shall We Explore?
With robotic spacecraft, we have explored, discovered and expanded our understanding of the Solar System and the Universe at large.…
Exoplanet-Hunting TESS Satellite to be Launched by SpaceX
The search for exoplanets is heating up, thanks to the deployment of space telescopes like Kepler and the development of…
Hubble Makes ‘Pillars Of Creation’ Look Better Than Ever
When you look at that image on the right, make sure to thank the STS-125 crew. And all the people…
Exciting Exoplanet News from AAS: How Rocky Worlds are Made; Oceans on Super-Earths
Astronomers from around the world gathered in Seattle today for the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Although it’s…
Catch Mercury Brushing Past Venus in a Spectacular Dusk ‘Quasi-Conjunction’ This Week
Missing Venus? The third brightest natural object in the heavens returns to prime time dusk skies in 2015 after being…
New Simulation Models Galaxies Like Never Before
Astronomy is, by definition, intangible. Traditional laboratory-style experiments that utilize variables and control groups are of little use to the scientists who…