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I’m dreaming of a white Christmas!
Congratulations! You survived the end of the world, and Christmas is around the corner. Time to focus on that popular question: will we have a white Christmas?
December 21, 2012
Did our solar system cross the galactic plane on December 21, 2012?
Did our solar system cross the plane of our Milky Way galaxy in 2012? Nah. That event is another 30 million years away.
December 21, 2012
Will the solar system planets align on December 21, 2012?
The image in this post shows the planets in our solar system on December 21, 2012. Do they look aligned to you?
December 21, 2012
Clays on Mars: More plentiful than expected
A new study indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously thought.
December 20, 2012
Ultramassive black holes: How big can a black hole get?
A survey of 18 giant black holes shows that at least ten may weigh between 10 and 40 billion times the mass of the sun. Astronomers have dubbed these "ultramassive" black holes.
December 20, 2012
Temperature records from nature reaffirm climate warming
In a large compilation, scientists used used 173 independent datasets - from natural sources such as ocean sediments - to show warming over the past century.
December 20, 2012
From Cassini for the holidays: A splendor seldom seen
Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its rings.
December 19, 2012
Astronomers identify stars in the Milky Way’s central bar
Our Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. Now astronomers say they have identified some individual stars making up the bar.
December 19, 2012
Is there a black hole in the center of our galaxy?
And if the Milky Way does have a central black hole, what's it doing there?
December 19, 2012
New dinosaur may be oldest by 10 million years
Working with fossils found in Tanzania, scientists have discovered what may be the oldest known dinosaur.
December 19, 2012
