Posted Fri Nov 20, 2009 04:03 PM ET | 0
For the first time since September 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has circulated a beam of protons fully around its 17 mile-long ring of supercooled electromagnets. The last time this happened was shortly before the LHC suffered a devastating... Read more
Posted Fri Nov 20, 2009 09:01 AM ET | 0
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is about to be fired up and Professor Jonathan Butterworth hopes that the ATLAS detector uncovers far more exotic physics than just the Higgs particle. Read more
Posted Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:48 PM ET | 0
It was never going to be a quick-fix to Mars Expedition Rover Spirit's predicament, but today's first attempt at rolling the wheeled robot out of the soft sand was aborted in less than 1 second. Fortunately, this isn't an indicator ... Read more
Posted Tue Nov 17, 2009 02:41 AM ET | 0
The world will come to an end. In approximately 4 billion years time, when the sun has depleted its supply of hydrogen in its core, our nearest star will swell like a balloon when it starts to burn heavier elements, ... Read more
Posted Sun Nov 15, 2009 09:34 PM ET | 0
Last night, my wife Deb and I went to watch the Roland Emmerich movie 2012. Deb fell asleep. She was the lucky one. I'm joking, it wasn't that bad, we just had to attend the midnight showing as the earlier ... Read more
Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:27 AM ET | 0
Did you hear the one about the particle accelerator that created a micro-black hole? You know, the one where this black hole exponentially grows into an Earth-eating behemoth, destroying all life as we know it? You probably did hear that ... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 09, 2009 04:30 AM ET | 0
You may have noticed a slight change in Discovery News today, and no, you're not seeing things. For the past few months, the Discovery News, design and tech teams have been working hard to redesign the site and better incorporate ... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 04, 2009 07:15 PM ET | 0
Wow, today has been an eventful day! This afternoon I had a great interview with Dr. Mike Brown (a.k.a. the planet hunter who killed Pluto by discovering Eris) all about hate-mail, Pluto, Planet X and Nibiru. The full interview transcript ... Read more
Posted Wed Nov 04, 2009 02:45 PM ET | 0
Mike Brown has an intimate knowledge of the Kuiper belt, if there is something big lurking out there (like Planet X or Nibiru), he'd know about it. Ian O'Neill asks Dr. Brown if he is part of a grand conspiracy to hide this harbinger of doom... Read more
Posted Mon Nov 02, 2009 01:26 AM ET | 0
UPDATE (Nov. 1): Originally, this article sounded pretty grim for Kepler, but it would appear that my source (Nature) may not be correct. A message was posted today by William Borucki, the principal investigator of the exoplanet-hunter mission,... Read more
Posted Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:28 PM ET | 0
One of the key questions when we eventually return to the Moon will be: where are we going to live? Ian O'Neill asks Dr. Carolyn van der Bogert some questions about a recently discovered lunar lava tube "skylight" to find out more. Read more
Posted Fri Oct 23, 2009 02:12 PM ET | 0
This weekend, the story of legendary explorer Amelia Earhart will be told in an epic movie called "Amelia". Earhart will be played by Hilary Swank (who bares more than a fleeting resemblance to the aviation pioneer, great casting) and the ... Read more
Posted Thu Oct 22, 2009 03:04 AM ET | 0
Building on the huge success of #Meteorwatch, the UK's Newbury Astronomical Society is currently preparing for the second instalment of #Moonwatch! You might be wondering, what's this #Moonwatch? What's it got to do with Twitter? What's this "#"... Read more
Posted Wed Oct 21, 2009 04:17 PM ET | 0
These are very exciting times for extrasolar planet hunters. Dozens of new exoplanets have been discovered (some a little larger than Earth, others several times the size of Jupiter) and astronomers are refining their already sophisticated techniques... Read more
Posted Mon Oct 19, 2009 07:21 PM ET | 0
So how do you go about spotting an alien civilization? Well, you build a really big radio telescope and point it at the stars. But say if ET isn't transmitting? Say if ET is transmitting, but they are too far ... Read more
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