Space

No Need To Be Scared Of Asteroids- Far Less Scary Than Lightning

then all of our asteroid surveys will pick them up giving us probably decades of warning before they ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 11 2018 - 2:20am

Polar Regions Of Mars Of Outstanding Interest For Astrobiology- Why We Haven't Searched For Life There Yet

not all bad news however, for heat sterilization. Since Viking, while commercial equipment for most ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 30 2018 - 4:09pm

NGC 134: Island In The Universe

Boffin, with input from Yuri Beletsky (all ESO). Warps are actually not atypical. More than half of the ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2007 - 11:21am

Broad Absorption Line Quasar Puts Out More X-Rays Than Even Believed Possible

10-20 percent of all quasars are BAL quasars, which get their name from a thick cocoon of gas ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2011 - 10:05am

Big Dipper Secret Ingredient- Alcor's Red Dwarf Companion

1640 astronomers discovered the faint star by blocking out almost all of Alcor's light with ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm

Missing Jupiters May Have Brought Massive Comet Belts

of the Herschel data. GJ 581's planets have masses between 2 and 15 Earth masses and are all ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2012 - 6:00pm

LRLL 54361: Binary Star Spied Gobbling Its First Meal

region) in (a), and about 50" (~15,000 AU) in (b). Most if not all of this light is likely the result ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2013 - 3:07pm

Mega Earth Kepler-10C Discovery- Why Are Our Solar System's Planets So Different?

2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. Therefore it is all solids, although it may ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 12:08pm

Monstrous Distant Baby Galaxies Cradled By...Dark Matter?

region photographed in visible light by the Subaru Telescope. We can see that not all of the monstrous ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 12:29pm

Cloud RCW 120 Findings Challenge Old Theories Of Star Formation

hundreds and hundreds of stars of all sizes: from those similar to our sun, to monsters several tens of ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2010 - 3:51pm