Astronomy
Planets Can Survive a Red Giant
Our Sun is in the middle age of life, and that's a good thing for us here on Earth. But…
Planets Under Construction
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a massive planetary zone forming around the star system TW Hydrae.…
Bumpy Dust Makes Molecular Hydrogen
The most common element in the Universe is hydrogen, and much of that is molecular hydrogen, where two atoms are…
June 25th Conjunction: Mercury, Venus and Saturn
Few celestial events attract such widespread media attention as what is inappropriately named a planetary alignment. Because of their orbits…
New Form of Matter Created
Physicists at MIT have successfully created a new form of matter in their laboratory; a gas that shows superfluidity at…
Natural Particle Accelerator Discovered
Astronomers have discovered a binary system of a blue giant and a pulsar that operate as a natural particle accelerator,…
Podcast: Into the Submillimeter
When you look into the night sky with your eyes, or through a telescope, you're seeing the Universe in the…
A Star in the Making
Named after Harvard University astronomer Bart Bok, Bok globules may not be the most romantic sounding phrase in astronomy, but…
Staring into a Cosmic Jet
Jets of material seem common in the Universe; blasting away from black holes, neutron stars, the hearts of galaxies, and…
Neutrino Evidence Confirms Big Bang Predictions
Astronomers have built up a map of neutrinos that existed when the Universe was very young, and have found that…