Space & Physics
Galaxy Gave Star Cluster the Boot
The star cluster HVGC-1 had been part of the M87 galaxy, but now it's fleeing that galaxy at more than two million miles per hour. Clara Moskowitz reports
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Space & Physics
Proof that the Universe Inflated Rapidly After the Big Bang
Traces of primordial gravitational waves could tell us how and when the early universe went through its precipitous expansion
Watch the Earth From Space, Live!
Live streaming video by Ustream It doesn’t get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).
Space & Physics
Exomoons Can Spoof Exoplanet Biosignatures
Astronomers hope that one day soon we’ll obtain a spectrum of light that might tell us whether or not an Earth-sized exoplanet harbors life.
Environment
Fox News Tells SciAm Editor Not to Talk About Climate Change
This morning I appeared on the nation’s number-one-rated morning show, Fox and Friends. Afterwards I tweeted out a few things that have garnered some attention, including this: Fox & Friends producer wanted to talk about future trends...
Space & Physics
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's Snapshots from Space [Video]
Today, Chris Hadfield shared in social media a previously released video, Chris Hadfield’s Snapshots from Space! “Throughout his ISS mission, CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield has been taking some of the most incredible photos of Earth ever seen...
Space & Physics
Warp Drive Research Key to Interstellar Travel
As any avid Star Trek fan can tell you, the eccentric physicist Zefram Cochrane invented the warp-drive engine in the year 2063. It wasn't easy.
Space & Physics
Kepler Telescope Finds 700 New Exoplanets
Data from the damaged spacecraft reveal new worlds
Space & Physics
Heads Up! Thirteen Years Of Asteroid Impacts On Earth
Since the Chelyabinsk event in early 2013, when a brilliant meteor fireball streaked across Russian skies and exploded with the energy of thirty Hiroshima bombs, humans have paid slightly more attention to the potential danger of asteroids than before...
Space & Physics
How Can Galaxies Move Faster Than the Speed of Light? [Video]
Charles Liu, astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, answers questions submitted to our YouTube Space Lab Channel
Space & Physics
Telescope Apps Help Amateurs Hunt for Exoplanets
The "Automated Planet Finder" could make astronomers of us all
Space & Physics
First Earth-Size Planet That Could Support Life Found
NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified a planet that is both similar in size to Earth and within the habitable zone of its sun
The Sciences
Giant Gamma Ray Detector Searches for Two Home Sites
The Cherenkov Telescope Array will track high-energy photons to probe black holes, dark matter and relativity
Space & Physics
Exotic Space Particles Slam into Buried South Pole Detector
The IceCube experiment has taken hits from three neutrinos carrying energies above the outlandishly high peta–electron volt range that suggest they may radiate from titanic explosions in the depths of space
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What do NYC Streets and Asteroids Have in Common?
Fatigue, that’s what. As a particularly frigid winter recedes across the north and east of the United States (we’ve become accustomed to milder weather in past years), the abuse suffered by asphalt roads is becoming apparent...
Space & Physics
Dark Matter May Be Destroying Itself in Milky Way’s Core
Excess gamma-ray light at the galactic center may indicate invisible dark matter particles
Space & Physics
Fossil Galaxy May Be One of First Ever Formed
The stars in the nearby Segue 1 dwarf galaxy have fewer metals than any other galaxy known, suggesting the object is a relic from the baby universe
Space & Physics
Star Birth Sparked at the Galaxy's Edge
Gas from another galaxy is hitting our own, triggering the birth of bright new stars and adding fresh luster to the Milky Way
Gravitational Waves Reveal the Universe Before the Big Bang: An Interview with Physicist Gabriele Veneziano
It’s not usually put like this, but the discovery of primordial gravitational waves two weeks ago has given us our first direct glimpse of a period before the big bang.
Astrophysics
What Stephen Hawking Really Meant When He Said There Are No Black Holes
A decades-old paradox returns
