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Amateur Astronomers Discover 42 Alien Planets
A team of amateurs has discovered evidence for 42 alien planets, including a Jupiter-size world that could potentially be...
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Data Confirms Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
An international team of astronomers says analysis of NASA data on a distant stellar system has led them to...
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Archeologists in Egypt Unearth 3000-Year-Old Tombs
Egypt’s Antiquities Minister says Italian archaeologists have unearthed tombs over 3000 years old in the ancient city of Luxor....
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Virtual Vices Reveal Shift in American Morality
As the Internet and other media invade American life, our vices have gone virtual, according to a new study....
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Rising Mercury Emissions Increase Risk to Humans
Developing nations are facing growing health and environmental risks from increased exposure to mercury, according to a UN report....
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We Likely Wouldn’t See a Doomsday Asteroid Until it Was Too Late
How much warning will we really have if a Near Earth Asteroid (NEO) is about to hit Earth? The...
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Finding Another Earth: How Will Scientists Confirm It Exists?
The announcement that astronomers have found a potential alien world that could be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet is...
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The Farthest Supernova Yet for Measuring Cosmic History
What if you had a “Wayback Television Set” and could watch an entire month of ancient prehistory unfold before...
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When Is the Next Doomsday (Not) Going to Happen?
Take a deep breath; Dec 21, 2012 is behind us. The Mayan calendar end-of-world debacle is over: zip, zilch,...
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Physicist Wants to Put Einstein’s Equation to the Test
Does E always equal mc²? University of Arizona physicist Andrei Lebed suspects not – and plans to try and...