Ancient Solar Systems Found Around Dead Stars
[/caption] Were there once habitable planets long ago around stars that are now dead? A team of astronomers have found…
UK, US Astronomers: That’s One Cool Star
An international team, led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, has discovered one of the coolest sub-stellar bodies…
Orion’s Belt Sees More Action Than We Knew
Using infrared telescopes, European and American astronomers have peered through the opaque molecular cloud that obscures much of Orion's stellar…
Reporting From the NorthEast Astronomy Forum
So what's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Try acres of telescopes and hundreds of amateur astronomers. If you're…
A Day for Earth, but a Whole Week for Dark Skies
[/caption] Wednesday is Earth Day, but all week -- Monday, April 20 through Saturday, April 26 -- is National Dark…
The STS-400 Shuttle Rescue Mission Scenario
[/caption] Two space shuttles now sit out on the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center: Atlantis on 39A for the…
How to Keep Asteroids Away: Tie Them Up
[/caption] It may not look like much, but that drawing could save a life someday -- or 7 billion.…
Podcast: Optical Astronomy
Optical astronomy; now this is the kind of astronomy a human being was born to do. In fact, until the…
Podcast: Questions Show: Undoing Inflation, Searching for Water, and Seeing Everything a Black Hole’s Ever Eaten
If there was enough mass to cause a big crunch, would inflation go backwards too? How do spacecraft know that…
Ancient Antarctic Ecosystem Could be Analog for Life on Other Worlds
[/caption] Scientists have found an ancient ecosystem below an Antarctic glacier, one that has survived millions of years without light…