Luke Skywalker’s home in “Star Wars” is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only uninhabitable...
Monday, 30 March 2015
Friday, 27 March 2015
Why the Quantum, Why the Universe --"Are Findings Pointing to a New Physics?"
The existence and stability of atoms relies heavily on the fact that neutrons are slightly more mas-sive than protons. The experimentally...
"The Dark World of Our Universe" --Astronomers Zeroing In on This Great Mystery
Dark matter is a giant question mark looming over our knowledge of the Universe. There is more dark matter in the Universe than visible matter,...
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Ancient Paleo-Lake Identified at Mars' Jezero Crater -- Could Reveal Biologic or Organic Material
Researchers from Brown University have completed a new analysis of an ancient Martian lake system in Jezero Crater, near the planet’s equator....
The Starmaker --Fierce Colossal Winds of a Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
Star formation takes place in cold, dense molecular clouds. By heating and dispersing gas that could one day make stars, the black-hole wind...
Image of the Day: Dusty Cloud at Milky Way Core Survives Supermassive Black Hole Encounter
This composite image shows the motion of the dusty cloud G2 as it closes in on, and then passes, the supermassive black hole at the centre...
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Jupiter's Explosive Ever-Present Polar Lights --Many Times Size of the Earth
On Earth, bursts of particles spewed by the Sun spark shimmering auroras, like the Northern Lights, that briefly dance at our planet’s poles....
"Hacking the Cosmos" --New Systems Able to Process Square Kilometer Array Data Tsunami
It's almost a rite of passage in physics and astronomy. Scientists spend years scrounging up money to build a fantastic new instrument. Then,...
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Naming the Mysterious Features of Pluto and Charon --An Open Invitation to the World Community
The SETI and the New Horizons team is beginning a campaign called “Our Pluto”. The goal is to gather together the names that they will eventually...
Monday, 23 March 2015
"Cosmic Music?" --Discovery: Stars May Generate Sound
A chance discovery by a team of researchers, including a University of York scientist, has provided experimental evidence that stars may...
"The Missing Extinction Event" --Earth's Largest Known Asteroid Impact Zone Discovered in Australia
A 400 kilometer-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite that broke in two moments before it slammed into the Earth has been found in Central...
Saturday, 21 March 2015
Pulsars Imploding Into Black Holes --"May Unveil Secrets of Dark Matter"
"It is possible that pulsars imploding into black holes may provide the first concrete signal of particulate dark matter," said study co-author...
Rosetta Probe Reveals Key Molecule from Early Nebula Origin of Solar System
A's comet probe Rosetta has for the first time ever measured nitrogen gas at a comet, providing clues to the early stages of the formation...
Friday, 20 March 2015
Ancient Supernova Dust Factory Observed at Milky Way Center --"Building Block of the Universe"
"Dust itself is very important because it's the stuff that forms stars and planets, like the sun and Earth, respectively, so to know where...
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Amazing Luminous Star Cluster Inside a Supernova in a Tiny Dwarf Galaxy
More than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy near our own, an international team...
The Anthropocene Epoch: "How We Became Nature"
Overpopulation, the greenhouse effect, warming temperatures and overall climate disruption are all well recognized as a major threat to the...
"Iron Rain Fell on Early Earth" --Gravity Seeded Our Iron Deposits vs the Moon
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine, the most powerful deliverer of bursts of electrical energy in the world, have helped...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
The Mystery of Ceres' White Spots --"Could the Dwarf Planet be Habitable?"
"Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres was known as a planet, then an asteroid and later a dwarf planet," said Marc Rayman, Dawn chief engineer...
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