Aug 07
A Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer has discovered what some are calling a “cosmic ghost,” a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical object
Aug 07
Scientists don’t know much about the mysterious phenomenon known as dark energy, but they do have a picture of what it’s doing to the universe, namely, driving it apart. In what may be the clearest detection of dark energy to date, astronomers looked at microwaves left over from the beginning of the universe some 13.7 billion years ago.
Aug 07
As rumors swirled over the weekend, NASA convinced the scientists running the experiments on its Mars Phoenix lander to open up to the public about the scientific process that’s still trying to figure out just what we’ve found out about our neighboring planet.