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Planet Hunters invite users to search for alien worlds
The Planet Hunters website invites users to search for alien worlds.
December 16, 2010
Life’s building blocks in impossible place, plus a whalloping meteorite tale
Since it crashed to Earth over two years ago, an object called 2008 TC3 has fascinated scientists. Now it appears this object contains amino acids, the building blocks of life.
December 15, 2010
Ice volcanoes on Saturn’s moon Titan likely
Ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan likely, say scientists who announced their findings at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
December 14, 2010
How to build an International Space Station (ISS)
It's not the great double wheel of a space station that so inflamed my imagination back in 1968, with Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, the ISS is a space station, and humans will live and work there.
December 13, 2010
Historic SpaceX commercial spaceflight recovery
The space transport company SpaceX made history by launching a spacecraft, Dragon, into orbit and recovering it safely, a feat only done by a few nations.
December 13, 2010
SpaceX commercial rocket launches successfully
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket today. It hopes to be the first commercial company to recover a capsule from space.
December 8, 2010
NASA scientist says Geminid meteor shower defies explanation
The Geminids are like the 900-pound gorilla of meteor showers. But the shower's source - a rocky body called 3200 Phaethon - is more of a 98-pound weakling, says NASA.
December 7, 2010
A Christmas story… and a warning!
Christmas story about Clay Sherrod. Clay has been a strong force for the promotion of astronomy as the "People's Science" and the education of the public about the Universe.
December 3, 2010
Stars – and planets – possibly more plentiful
Astronomers have made a discovery suggesting that the universe might have three times as many stars - and many more planets - than previously suspected.
December 1, 2010
Super-Earth may have water as steam or high clouds
Astronomers have found that a super-Earth exoplanet has an atmosphere that is either mostly water in the form of steam, or that is dominated by high clouds or hazes.
December 1, 2010
