There is news from both inner space and outer space.
On Monday morning at 7:42 Eastern time, the Hubble Space Telescope began its 100,000th trip around the Earth in what has been a storied 18-year career. In honor of that milestone, and the
Would stars light up the sky in other universes? It's often claimed that the fundamental constants of physics in our own Universe are exquisitely tuned to permit stars – and therefore life - to exist. But Fred Adams, an astrophysicist at the University
BALTIMORE Mario Livio tossed his car keys in the air.
They rose ever more slowly, paused, shining, at the top of their arc, and then in accordance with everything our Galilean ape brains have ever learned to expect, crashed back down into his
What goes up must come down. Few on Earth would argue with the fundamental law of gravity.
But ten years ago this month the Astronomical Journal accepted a paper for publication that revealed there is a dark side of the force.
For decades
Astronomers have nabbed an important bit of data about the early universe that had eluded them for 25 years. An international team studying gas clouds in a distant galaxy has found that the temperature of the gas matches almost exactly what models
Scientists have produced the most detailed ever prediction of the ultimate fate of our planet and readers of a nervous disposition would be well advised to look away now. In a billion years, they calculate, the Sun will have become 10% brighter than it
Okay - I never said I was away, but I am. A brief visit to Romania, and I’m full of things about Ada Lovelace I want to say. But it’ll have to wait, as I’m fucking insanely, stupidly busy.
However, in passing, was just buying some basic shopping. I
Woke up in a hotel room in Brussels. It's 6pm in the afternoon here. Cloudy and shitty. I go down for some coffee-- the hotel bar was closed when I went to bed at noon. Now it's open, the bottles brightly line the wall like an attendant glass entourage.
In the end, there will not even be fragments.
If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death. That is the forecast according to
On Friday 14 December NASA Administrator Dr Mike Griffin and British-born Shuttle astronaut Piers Sellers will be amongst speakers joining leading astronomers and planetary scientists at the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in London to consider the