"Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking," said Mark…
Smack! Booster Impact Site Found on Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has finally spotted the impact of the Apollo 16 booster, more than 43 years after it…
Air & Space Museum at Dulles, Virginia
I was in DC for business last week, and stayed an extra day to check out the Smithsonian Air and…
Return to ‘Wow!’
The famous Wow! signal, picked up on August 15, 1977 at the Big Ear radio telescope (Ohio State University) is…
Dramatically Sharper Gamma-ray Telescope Spots Energetic Sites | Video
A software upgrade to ground-based analyses of data sets from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) has…
New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Intriguing features on dwarf planet Ceres stand out in exquisite detail in new images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which recently…
The Future of Intelligent Machine Communication –From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s Robot Asimo (UC Berkeley)
From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better at communicating with humans. But…
The California Nebula
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Milky Way age map shows growth rings
The first-ever complete age map of the Milky Way shows that our galaxy grew from the inside out. from EarthSky…
Life on Earth Can Thank Its Lucky Stars for Jupiter and Saturn
Without Jupiter and Saturn orbiting out past the Earth, our solar system would be much more dangerous to life, new…
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