Astronomers Hypothesize that Milky Way Might Be Teeming with Planets
In the past, astronomers had no evidence that there were planets orbiting other stars. Now, they estimate that the Milky Way might contain huge numbers…
In the past, astronomers had no evidence that there were planets orbiting other stars. Now, they estimate that the Milky Way might contain huge numbers…
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the three smallest exoplanets ever detected. All of them are smaller than Earth, and the smallest is no larger than…
Acquired in 1996 and typically used for studying hurricanes, the Gulfstream IV-SP (G-IV) operated by NOAA will have a new mission for the next two…
California is leading the way in a groundbreaking push for safer alternatives to toxic chemicals. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the U.S….
A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Agios Pharmaceuticals are using MR spectroscopy to measure whether brain tumors have a…
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to pull off the maneuver to refine its flight path while…
According to a recently completed statistical study by an international team of astronomers, our galaxy has at least 100 billion planets. Gravitational microlensing was used…
Kepler’s mission is to find potentially habitable planets around Earth size and smaller in a target region of the Milk Way galaxy. It’s had quite…
The 2010 GHG data was released today and for the first time data from large facilities is easily accessible to the public. The GHG report…
Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, such as PS 10 and PS20 located in Spain, help supply clean electricity to thousands of homes; but researchers at…
Using the Very Large Baseline Array, astronomers have managed to capture an image of a black hole firing two gigantic pockets of ionized gas at…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made a rare discovery when looking deep into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Spotted was a population of rare blue stars in…
The real-time social networking service Twitter has yielded data that would have tracked the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti, which began in October 2010, faster…
The largest galaxy cluster in the distant universe has been found and nicknamed “El Gordo,” which is much easier to say than the official name…
Given that tobacco smokers on average smoke 30 cigarettes per day, it is no surprise that pot smokers would experience less lung damage than cigarette…
In a development that could end up saving the lives of soldiers traumatically injured on the battlefield, engineers from MIT have developed a spray coating…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needs stronger, lighter, and more resilient materials that can be used in any number of applications from armor to…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…