On planet Gliese 876d, sunrises might be dangerous. Although nobody really knows what conditions are like on this close-in planet orbiting variable red dwarf star Gliese 876, the above artistic illustration gives one impression.
The mission, designed to test general relativity, came in last in a review of 10 NASA spacecraft
Downplaying concerns about the safety of an escape system on the space station, NASA clears the shuttle Discovery for a 31 May launch
A small red dwarf star has erupted with the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than the Sun
New simulations fail to explain how black holes weighing more than a billion Suns formed so soon after the big bang
A giant void in the cosmos discovered last year is probably a statistical artefact, say astronomers
A lab test shows that frozen grains of dust in interstellar clouds are a likely site for the formation of water
Some of the most famous quotes attributed to him suggest he was - namely, “God does not play dice with the universe.”But a handwritten letter that the great physicist wrote to the philosopher Eric Gutkind in 1954, a year before…
Where in the cosmos might black holes be hiding? looks behind the sofa
A new study bolsters the idea that quantum fuzziness smoothes out a black hole’s destructive ’singularity’, allowing information to escape
