Study shows difficulty in finding evidence of life on Mars In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet’s […]
Study shows our sun is less active than similar stars By cosmic standards the sun is extraordinarily monotonous. This is the result of a study presented by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar […]
Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the […]
New selfie shows Curiosity, the Mars chemist A new selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it’s especially meaningful for the mission’s team: Stitched together from 57 individual images taken by a […]
NASA visualization shows a black hole’s warped world This new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The visualization simulates […]
Researcher shows physics suggests life could exist in a 2-D universe James Scargill, a physicist at the University of California, has written a paper reporting that the laws of physics allow for the existence of […]