Jul 08
Stunning satellite images of the Red Planet reveal avalanches, sand dunes and more.
Jul 08
For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren’t talking about that much. Beyond space tourism as a platform for steamy shenanigans, space missions are the perfect petri dishes for close encounters, and this year NASA certainly has a busy flight schedule, with five missions planned.
Jul 08
Charles Thomas Bolton was THE first man to discover a black hole. His thanks for 37 years of research? Well he’s just been kicked out his observatory by the University of Toronto who sold off the observatory he was was working in to greedy real estate interests: An act that ranks with the sacking of the library of Alexandria.
Jul 08
Ever since the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet (does it even deserve a capital “P”???) in 2006, astronomers around the world have been at odds to describe just what they mean when they say the word “planet.”