Space

Seeing Is Believing? You Still Won't Believe This Gravitational Arc

"I'm not yet convinced by any of these explanations," Gonzalez said. "After all, we have ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2012 - 8:33pm

Dawn Of Time: When The First Stars Blinked On, There Was No Carbon Or Oxygen

to observe objects that are less than about 11 billion years old. These objects all exhibit heavy ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2012 - 4:01am

Two Type 1a Supernovae Discovered

that has burned up all its energy. It is about as massive as the Earth's sun. It's core is ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2013 - 10:57am

Rossby Waves And The Moving 'Hot Spots' Of Jupiter

Jupiter's atmosphere, possibly all the way down to the level where water clouds can form. In pictures, hot ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2013 - 10:21am

True Colour Of Exoplanet Is Blue, Light Scattered From Drops Of Glass

a sun synchronous orbit. They combined all the light from the entire image into a single pixel to ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jan 19 2014 - 11:09am

Get Ready For The Sun's Magnetic Pole To Flip

to the field's polarity ripple all the way out to the Voyager probes, on the doorstep of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2013 - 5:20pm

Spirals, Figure 8's And Peanut Shells: Go Home Milky Way, You're Drunk

"puffed up all at once or slowly." Understanding the distributions of speeds and directions of motion ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2013 - 2:28pm

Bell's Inequality And The Speed Of Light: Quasar Findings Might Close The 'Free Will' Loophole

laboratory. Essentially all of these experiments have shown that such particles are correlated more strongly ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2014 - 10:54am

Planet Mercury Shrunk Far More Than Previous Estimates

its lifetime, the rocky planet had barely shrunk at all. But modeling of the planet's formation ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 3:30am

What The Milky Way's Shape And Contents Really Look Like (You'll Need A Bigger Monitor)

a band around Earth where the plane of the Milky Way lies, it shows more than half of all the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 4:55pm