2010-10-03 09:55
By: John Roach for National Geographic NewsAstronomers studying a nearby star say they've found the first potentially habitable planet—likely a rocky place with an atmosphere, temperat… Read More
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2010-03-22 03:37
Quick! What's the brightest star in the sky? If you said Sirius, then give yourself a blue gold star. But I'm sorry to say: Bzzzzt. You're wrong. Your problem is you know too much astronomy… Read More
2009-09-13 09:08
Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens fascinating perspectives to better… Read More
2009-09-13 08:25
By Maggie McKeeThe universe's first stars may have been bloated behemoths powered by dark matter, suggests an intriguing, if speculative, new study. These 'dark stars' might have delayed the… Read More
2009-09-13 07:59
By David Van BiemaWith reporting by David Bjerklie, Alice Park/New York, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Jeff Israely/RomeThere are two great debates under the broad heading of Science vs. God. The mo… Read More
2009-09-13 07:26
By Richard PanekThree days after learning that he won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot was talking about the universe. Sitting across from him in his office at the University of… Read More
2009-09-13 07:02
The term Universe has a variety of meanings based on the context in which it is described. In philosophical terms, the Universe is the summation of all that exists and the space in which all… Read More
2009-09-07 03:43
By Paul RinconScience reporter, BBC NewsAstronomers have discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star.Planets form out of the same swirling gas c… Read More
2009-07-22 02:42
Preliminary image showing a black mark in Jupiter's South Polar Region (SPR) which is almost certainly the result of a large impact - either an asteroid or comet - similar to the Shoemaker-L… Read More
2009-01-28 19:33
By Robert Myers and Robert PearlmanIn the early days of the Cold War, three men claim they were chosen by a powerful new government agency to undertake a historically perilous journey. They… Read More
2009-01-28 18:43
By Michael DuvinakThe global warming hoax has proved to be, if nothing else, a topic that should be openly debated instead of being considered off-limits by the climate change activists. Ove… Read More
2009-01-28 18:42
EXTRA !..EXTRA !'All We Have To Fear Is Air Itself 'SAYS ROOSEVELT, "NEW DEAL" ON GLOBAL WARMING !League of Nations Scientists Warn Of CatastropheIf Hoover Re-electedForget the 1938 Hurrican… Read More
2009-01-28 18:34
Apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. Yes, you read correctly, in some way, shape or form, the Earth (or at least a large portion of humans on the planet) will cease… Read More
2009-01-28 18:28
The solar system, in which earth is situated, is but a speck in the Milky Way Galaxy, which in turn is just one of the countless galaxies in the Universe. Even though there have been a lot o… Read More
2009-01-28 18:27
Information received via channel mediums tells us that crop circles are the result of photon energy patterns hitting Earth's surface causing the crops within the fields to become horizontal… Read More
2009-01-28 18:27
For decades arguments have raged about the disappearance of the famous Flight 19 in what became known as The Bermuda Triangle. Is it an area where the normal laws of physics simply don't app… Read More
2009-01-28 18:25
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down safely near the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 p.m. Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degre… Read More
2009-01-28 18:22
By John Allen PaulosNot Really, ABC News Columnist Says; It's Not Unusual for Order to Occur NaturallySince writing my book "Irreligion" and some of my recent Who's Counting columns, I've re… Read More
2009-01-28 18:21
So how big is our planet Earth? The video below illustrates the size of planets and stars compared to each other. See how our planet and Sun become dwarfs and disappear in the scale. W Cephe… Read More
2009-01-28 18:17
By Angela K. BrownSTEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this farming community where nightfall usually brings clear, starry skies, residents are abuzz over reported sightings of what many beli… Read More
2009-01-28 18:10
For the first time ever, NASA will beam a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" (Listen) -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.The transmission over NASA's Deep Space Netw… Read More
2009-01-28 18:09
WASHINGTON (AP) - The deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it's a bizarre and violent universe. The research findings from this week's annual meeting of U.S. astronom… Read More
2009-01-28 18:06
By Dennis OverbyeCorrection AppendedIt could be the weirdest and most embarrassing prediction in the history of cosmology, if not science.If true, it would mean that you yourself reading thi… Read More
2009-01-28 18:05
By Joe RaoSPACE.com Skywatching ColumnistThe most spectacular celestial sights over the next couple of weeks are reserved for the early morning sky. Two bright planets will converge, then be… Read More
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