Physical Sciences

Your Weekend Dose Of Awesome: An Elliptical Crater On Mercury

features of special scientific interest are targeted for imaging in all 11 colors. The MESSENGER spacecraft ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2013 - 8:30am

Big Crunch Beta Functions: The End Of The Universe Is Closer Than You Think

actually can be worked with together and that they interact with each other. When applying all three ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2013 - 1:33pm

Is The Universe Expanding, Or Are We Shrinking?

However, when taking this latter perspective, one has to ensure that all microscopic lengths shrink in ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Aug 18 2013 - 11:36am

A Simpler Way To Define What Makes A Planet

all eight planets in our solar system and all classifiable exoplanets-- the large bodies that orbit ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2015 - 1:27pm

Black Holes? More Like Donut Holes In The Cosmos

times heavier than the sun. All of these active galactic nuclei have been described, and data is ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 12:31pm

The Daytime Astronomer at Career Day

space idioms. Mostly, their questions are all over the place. Since you're live, you have to ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - May 15 2009 - 7:28pm

The permittivity of vacuum- why?

multiple of the elementary one, a number without dimension, just count. It all works beautifully in modern ...

Blog Post - Ladislav Kocbach - Dec 13 2010 - 8:28am

Volunteer-Based Peer Review: A Success

us produce content for the internet- to participate, to give a little. The internet has made all of ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 28 2014 - 7:17am

Are Black Holes The Source of Dark Energy? Possibly, Just Possibly.

they interact. Dark energy is in a sense just a way we account for all the details typically ignored in ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 24 2023 - 12:57pm

Riding A Long Train Down A Black Hole

to raise their hands.  But what you will see is quite disturbing if you are unprepared for it: All ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Aug 26 2013 - 9:27am