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Could Epsilon Eridani Support a Future Earth-like Planet?
This is an exciting time in astronomy, although as a fanboy what I wouldn’t give to be alive in the era when we’d have the means to visit these places: Nearby Solar System Looks Like Our Own at Time...
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Hubble Shines, But Gets No Respect
Just a few days after coming back to life Hubble rewards us with the fantastic image above of a pair of double galaxies, and yet like some sad ignored family member will have to wait for a repair...
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The First Photo of an Exoplanet
While the photo above looks pretty, it’s no ordinary snapshot — in fact within the red dust is the very first photo of a planet that’s outside of our solar system. Hubble Directly Observes Planet...
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Low Budget Portable Planetarium
The Homestar Home Planetarium use to only be available in Japan, but now ThinkGeek is about to carry a version designed for the American market. What’s nice about this gizmo is that it can turn any...
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Carbon Dioxide Discovered on an Extrasolar Planet
It’s amazing how every day we find more and more obvious clues that there may be other signs of life in he universe. This latest discovery shows that astronomers have detected carbon dioxide (a basic...
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Is Our Cosmos Recycled?
There’s a great article at New Scientist on speculation that the cosmos existed before the Big Bang and that the bang itself was a recycling effect. It seems that scientists are now starting to play...
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Recreating a 2000-Year-Old Computer
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient calculator that was discovered in Greece over 100 years ago, what makes it amazing is that it’s over 2,000 years old and uses similar technology that wasn’t...
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The Tidal Waves Under Icy Europa May Hint at Life
When most scientists thought of the one place in our solar system outside Earth that may support life the common favorite was Titan, but now that honor may go to the Europa the other sister moon of...
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Scientists Discover the Smallest Exoplanet So Far…
While this planet is about twice the size of Earth it’s amazing to think of the progress that astronomers have made in just the past few years. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next few years we...
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Our Galaxy: 37,964 Habitable Planets and 361 Advanced Civilizations
Our galaxy is big, really big — so the odds are in our favor that Earth is not a fluke. Of course this thinking is old news at this point, however what’s new is that astrophysicists are starting to...
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Habitable Planets: Upgraded from 40,000 to Billions!
It was only less than a few weeks ago that we reported that Astrophysicist Duncan Forgan had boldly calculated that there are about 40,000 planets that would support intelligent life — well like a...
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NASA Scientist Predicts We’ll Meet E.T. by 2019
The good news is that Peter Smith who led NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission predicts that within ten years we’ll find life on other planets — but the bad news for us fanboys with hopes of hanging out with...
View ArticleFinding Earth-Like Planets in Far-Away Solar Systems
In this video Bethany Cobb does a great job of explaining how astronomers search for planets in orbit of stars. In the full video she further explores NASA’s Kepler Mission and its search for...
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Touching the Stars
This story touched my heart: One of the side benefits of NASA is the amazing images that that the Hubble Space Telescope has produced over the years — however many of these glimpses of the furthest...
View ArticleFrom a Statistical Point of View You Shouldn’t Be Reading This
In this wonderful short video clip science writer Bill Bryson talks about how amazing it is that over the course of just a few short billion years we’ve gone from a collection of atoms to living life...
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Sega’s R2-D2 Home Star Planetarium
At this year’s Christmas Toy Fair, Sega’s toy division showed off their officially licensed Star Wars R2-D2 Homestar Planetarium – a R2-D2-shaped projector capable of displaying over 10,000 stars on...
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Time to Invent Warp Drive
Two years ago, NASA’s Kepler space telescope identified the planet designated Kepler 22B — a super-earth orbiting a yellow dwarf similar to our sun. It was recently confirmed that the planet resides...
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Is Pluto a Binary Planet?
A few years ago Pluto suffered the public humiliation of being demoted from being a planet, but perhaps things are looking up for the little guy: Last week a fourth moon was discovered to be orbiting...
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Saturn will be at its Biggest and Brightest Tonight
If you look outdoors tonight you’ll see Saturn in opposition, which means that it will be exactly opposite the sun as seen from Earth. To find saturn when the sun sets in the west, look for Saturn to...
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