Jun 05
A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence ..
Jun 05
Astronomers have found the first Earth-Sized Exoplanet 3,000 light years away. The planet was discovered by the science-fiction-sounding method of Gravitational Microlensing. Scientists believe that this shows that there might be far more planets out there than we ever suspected.
Jun 05
When the Phoenix Lander, NASA’s spacecraft that is looking for signs of life — or at least ice — on Mars, landed two weeks ago it, had an audience of thousands, but it was all online, not on cable or the nightly TV newscast. Web-savvy space fans have tuned into the spacecraft’s Twitter page, where Phoenix has been “tweeting” back daily messages..
Jun 05
In a collision of astrophysics and algebra, a study of cosmic mirages known as gravitational lenses completes a mathematical theorem
Jun 05
The US space agency’s new robotic craft on Mars has been commanded to carry out a second practice dig before beginning its real work.
Jun 05
A $1.5 billion cosmic ray telescope may meet up with the International Space Station after years of delay.The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was mothballed after agency officials realised there weren’t enough shuttle missions left to take the experiment to the space…
Jun 05
A pair of astronauts attached the lab during the first of three scheduled spacewalks from the International Space Station
Jun 05
Three dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way contain proportionally more dark matter than any stellar system yet studied
Jun 05
Astronomers searching for distant supernovae to probe dark energy have unwittingly stumbled upon two odd objects in our own solar system
Jun 05
Astronomers have long believed that our galaxy possesses four spiral arms, but two have failed to turn up in a new star survey
