Are We Living in a New Geologic Epoch?
Have humans changed our planet Earth so much in the past 200 years that we are now living in a…
Alarmist Asteroid 2007 TU24 Video
At the time I'm writing this, asteroid 2007 TU24 has nearly passed the Earth. As we've been hammering on here…
Are the Martian Winds Still Resurfacing the Planet?
The Martian atmosphere is tenuously thin; just 1% as thick as the Earth's. And yet, it boasts a surprising array…
Stars Form Better in the Cosmic Suburbs
Galaxies, like people, tend to stick together. These galaxies collect together into communities large and small, called clusters and even…
Natural Particle Accelerator Dwarfs the Power of the Large Hadron Collider
Years of work are about to pay off, as Europe's Large Hadron Collider is almost ready to come online. Soon…
A Nova Doesn’t Create, It Destroys
Astronomers used to think that brief stellar eruptions called novae generated massive amounts of dust. But new observations of a…
Podcast: Questions Show #8
We’ve been so crazy following our own whims through the universe that we’ve neglected your questions. That ends today. It’s…
Hyperfast Star Ejected from the Large Magellenic Cloud
Occasionally, stars minding their own business around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy get chucked out…
UK Astronomy Community “Deliberately Sabotaged” By Funding Cuts To Gemini Observatories
UK astronomers have been dealt a serious and unexpected blow. Funding cuts to space research has stopped the nation from…
Paper Boomerang will be Tested on Space Station
You know this is a burning question on the minds of eight-year olds everywhere: if you threw a boomerang in…