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Using supermassive black holes to measure cosmic distances
"Eye of Sauron" is a nickname for an active supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy. Researchers measured its distance at 62 million light-years.
November 29, 2014
NASA is tracking a gargantuan iceberg, escaped from Antarctica
After six months of winter darkness in Antarctica, NASA has re-acquired satellite images of the huge iceberg B31.
November 28, 2014
Video: Astrophysicists discuss the film Interstellar
Black holes, worm holes, exoplanets, time dilation. Three astrophysicists discuss them all in a presentation of the science behind the film Interstellar.
November 28, 2014
Earth has its own Star-Trek-like invisible shield
Scientists studying Earth's Van Allen belts have found an invisible shield that blocks ultrafast electrons from moving deeper into Earth’s atmosphere.
November 28, 2014
Another reason to be thankful for turkey
Be thankful for turkeys this Thanksgiving! An antibiotic to target staph infections and strep comes from good bacteria made inside turkeys, say researchers.
November 26, 2014
Video: Young volcanos on the moon
Scientists have long thought the moon's volcanos stopped erupting a billion years ago. But dotting the lunar landscape are some remarkably fresh volcanic features.
November 26, 2014
Pico do Fogo volcano in Cape Verde erupts, residents evacuated
Pico do Fogo is a shield volcano in the Cape Verde islands, off Africa's west coast. After a 20-year quiet, it began erupting Sunday, causing hundreds to evacuate.
November 24, 2014
Video: A year in the life of Earth’s CO2
Awesome visualization, based on an ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model, showing how carbon dioxide in our air travels around the globe.
November 24, 2014
Hummingbird flies more like insect than bird, says study
You might think a hummingbird simply beats its wings so fast and hard it pushes down enough air to keep its small body afloat. Turns out it's much trickier than that.
November 24, 2014
Study says gravity and Higgs boson interacted to save the universe
One second after the Big Bang, the Higgs boson should have caused a Big Crunch, collapsing the universe to nothing. But gravity saved the day.
November 22, 2014
