Space

Meteoroid Caught Free-Falling On Video? No, A Stone In The Parachute Pack

A probability of the observation, given the hypothesis that the stone is indeed a meteoroid, needs first of all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 24 2014 - 1:01am

Arsia Mons: Is There A Habitable Environment On This Martian Volcano?

than the habitable environments turned up by Curiosity and other Mars rovers. Those sites are all ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2014 - 4:30pm

GRB 140419A: A Huge Explosion From 12.1 Billion Years Ago Reaches Earth

Among all lights in the electromagnetic spectrum, gamma rays have the shortest wavelengths and are ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 11:06am

J1023 And A 'Transformer' Pulsar

high-energy particles moving near the speed of light. The power for all this comes from the pulsar's ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 4:20pm

Let's play Impact Crater or not Impact Crater.

all of their leaves.   The same goes for excavations with an earth mover.  Generally people excavate ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 12 2014 - 1:20pm

Could Life Have Existed Just 15 Million Years After The Big Bang?

stars would have been warmed by the heat of a radiation that permeated all of space, which was much ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 23 2014 - 7:00am

From The Mouths Of Baby Fireballs

fireball The University of Michigan Infrared Beam Combiner (MIRC), an instrument that combines all six ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 4:16pm

Orion's Test Flight: Recovering America's Space Dream

rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBS) that can all be used in the recovery of the crew module," Irish ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 3 2014 - 7:44pm

Andromeda Is The Violent Bad Boy Of Our Local Group

disordered motion. Stars in a "well ordered" population are all moving coherently, with nearly the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 6:33pm

EPIC: Nearby M Star Has 3 Earths, One In The Goldilocks Zone

discovery is all the more remarkable, he said, because the Kepler telescope lost two reaction wheels that ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2015 - 2:06pm