PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard Space Flight Cen (Read More)
Universe Today:
It's time once again for another Where In The Universe Challenge. Test your visual knowledge of the cosmos by naming where in the Universe this image was taken and give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft res (Read More)
Universe Today:
Bluffer's Guide to the CosmosThe English language continually evolves. Just see Ambrose Bierce's definition of dictionary. New concepts call for new words that often evolve from a new dictum. Astronomy has made its fair shar (Read More)
Planetary Society Weblog:
The Planetary Society announced today that an anonymous donor has put upone million dollars to help us get a solar sail in flight. That money will kick-start our ambitious new LightSail program, a series of three increasingl (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have published the discovery of the farthest known object in the cosmos: a star that exploded when the universe was only 630 million years old -- only 4.6% of its current age. Light from this cata (Read More)
Planetary Radio - The Planetary Society:
The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee report was released October 22nd. Planetary Society Executive Director Lou Friedman provides his perspective in this week's show. Bill Nye says something very strange is (Read More)
Exoplanetology:
Eve-Online, one of my favorite Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) has just made an important update. They added more details to the exoplanets in their universe.The last time I've played Eve was almost 4 years ago duri (Read More)
Universe Today:
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, a spooky Halloween version, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where the (Read More)
Wired Science:
For all its tumult — erupting stars, colliding galaxies, collapsing black holes — the cosmos is a surprisingly orderly place. Theoretical calculations have long shown that the entropy of the universe — a measure of its disord (Read More)
Universe Today:
This astronomical object is pretty in pink. Find out what it is back on the original post for this week's Where In The Universe Challenge. And make sure you check back next week for another test of your visual knowledge of (Read More)
Universe Today:
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know the drill: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yoursel (Read More)
Universe Today:
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos, and I swear, this one is space related. But you know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in th (Read More)
Universe Today:
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yourself (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
"We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. …It is a vital power rippling exquisitely through us all the time." D.H. Lawrence*. (Read More)
Universe Today:
If you've ever wanted to communicate with aliens, here's your chance. Cosmos Magazine is offering the chance to send a message to another planet, Gliese 581 d. This exoplanet is about 20.3 light-years from Earth, in the con (Read More)
CNN:
Astronomers are holding their breath to see what they'll discover with a new generation of huge telescopes set to be built around the world. Peering ever deeper into space and further back in time, the powerful devices will b (Read More)
Planetary Society Weblog:
Last week I got a message via Facebook from one Jacqui Hayes, who's on the staff of an excellent Australian science magazine called COSMOS. More importantly to me, Jacqui was once one of the Student Navigators, an internatio (Read More)
Universe Today:
I'm a day late (sorry!) but here's this week's image for the Where In The Universe Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in t (Read More)