space

Discovered: Black Hole 12 Billion Times The Size Of The Sun

The massive black hole powers a quasar 420 trillion times brighter than the Sun.

Asia’s Turn At The New Space Age?

Will Asian governmental efforts take man to space or will private companies get there first?

Supernovae Confirmed As Major Lithium Producers

The lithium in our smart phones may have come from the explosion of novae.

KARI To Launch Two Satellites With Arianespace

The two space and Earth environmental monitoring satellites will be launched in 2018 and 2019.

Fixing A Million Year Clock

A new, more accurate value for the half life of 60Fe could be used to fix an atomic clock that measures galactic history.

Planetary System Twice The Age Of The Sun Discovered

The Kepler-444 star is 11.2 billion years old and orbited by five planets about the size of Mercury and Venus.

Studying Muscle Loss With Worms In Space

The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans could tell us about the effects of microgravity on muscle and bone.

7 Must-Read Stories In December 2014

Amidst exciting space news from India and the encouraging discovery of broadly neutralizing dengue antibodies comes the tragic story of a HIV outbreak in Cambodia.

The Birth Of Little Twin Stars

High resolution observations and supercomputer modeling have allowed astronomers to understand the formation of binary stars.