US aerospace giant Boeing made it pretty clear last week that it would be interested in making some megabucks by building some of the European Union’s Galileo satellites - those at the heart of Europe’s putative 3.4 billion-Euro global positioning…
Dense regions of dark matter in the early universe may have stunted the growth of the first stars some could still be burning today
You can sleep easy in the knowledge that the world’s most powerful particle smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will not gobble us all up in the middle of the night. So says a new safety assessment released by CERN, the…
A new study of nearly a million galaxies suggests matter in the universe is distributed in a fractal pattern
Craters inside vast chasms in the ice at the Martian pole suggest volcanoes unleashed a vast flood relatively recently
Astronomical references in the ancient Greek text suggest its hero, Odysseus, returned home after his epic journey to a total solar eclipse
Some planetary scientists have not been appeased by the latest name-change and are planning an event devoted to debating Pluto’s place in the solar system
The singularity lurking inside a black hole would cause cosmic chaos if we unleashed it thankfully, nature keeps coming up with a way to stop us (full text available to subscribers)
The Phoenix lander appears to have fallen down a rabbit hole on Mars. How else to explain why it is exploring, from its stationary spot in the frigid northern plains, nearby sites called Wonderland, Cheshire Cat and Croquet Ground?”The overarching…
For more than 30 years, researchers have been cooking up mock Martian soil but no single material can simulate all its properties
