Space

Cosmological Twin Paradox: A Twin Of Our Sun, Except 4 Billion Years Older

Scorpii was confirmed to be younger than the Sun — about 2.9 billion years old. Jorge Melendez of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2013 - 11:46am

Mysteries Of 55 Cancri Solved

their orbits. These detections are exciting because they enable us to learn things about the orbits that ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2014 - 12:30am

3,000 Light Years Away, Hope For A Habitable Planet

the distortion contained information about the planet—its mass, separation from its star, and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2014 - 3:30pm

Odds of Intelligent life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets: NOT Great.

know about those planets is that they are not hydrogen rich gas giants.   What we need to know is ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 21 2016 - 4:23pm

Cosmic Messengers: A Multi-Dimensional View Of The Universe

insignificant; and yet, by observing the sky we have the power to learn about the Universe and its structure, ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 16 2021 - 9:41am

Is Gliese 581 Habitable?

interesting because of the central star, which is a red dwarf, M-type star. About 75% of all stars in our ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2007 - 3:17pm

The First Kickstarter Satellites

p.s. Finding out about these missions is not made simple, even with the web.  It's worth noting there is ...

Article - Project Calliope - Sep 9 2012 - 10:58am

Asteroid Chariklo Has A Ring System Like Saturn

a remote object like Chariklo, which is only about 250 kilometers in diameter and a billion kilometers from ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 1:00pm

So You Thought You Knew What Spinning Planets Look Like?... Surprising Shapes Of Rapidly Spinning Planets

planets could take the form of triaxial ellipsoids in 1834 For more about the history of mathematical ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 3 2019 - 7:07pm