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The Google+ Space Hangout Returns!

Posted by Ian O'Neill Fri Jan 13, 2012 03:20 PM ET | 0

Week 2 of the Google+ Space Hangout was a great success, discussing everything from dark matter to exoplanets. Watch it now! Read more

The Google+ Space Hangout Has Landed!

Posted by Ian O'Neill Fri Jan 6, 2012 02:48 AM ET | 0

Every Thursday (at 10 am PST), join us on Google+ for a live (and interactive) webcast stuffed full of spacey goodness. Read more

To Make Mankind Great Again, Push to Mars

Posted by Ian O'Neill Fri Aug 12, 2011 07:44 PM ET | 0

Last weekend, at the 14th International Mars Society Convention in Dallas, Texas, the message was clear: it is imperative that we send a manned mission to Mars. Read more

To Make Mankind Great Again, Push to Mars

Look Up! The Perseids Are Here: Video

Posted by Ian O'Neill Fri Aug 12, 2011 01:28 PM ET | 0

Right now you can get the best out of your Perseids experience by participating in #MeteorWatch -- an international social media effort to create, what I like to see it as, a worldwide virtual observatory. Read more

Is the Sun About to Fizz Out?

Posted by Ian O'Neill Tue Jun 14, 2011 03:40 PM ET | 0

The sun is changing, but scientists aren't sure why. Read more

Kepler's Insight to Physical Nature of Planetary Systems

Posted by Ray Villard Tue May 24, 2011 07:30 PM ET | 0

Of the170 multiple-planet systems of two or more planets found so far by Kepler, many have remarkably flat orbits. Read more

Hawking: Surprise! There's No Heaven

Posted by Ian O'Neill Tue May 17, 2011 01:22 PM ET | 0

Death, according to Hawking, is even more of a drag than we thought. Read more

Eye-Controlled Laptop and 'Telepresence' Robot Debut

Posted Thu Mar 3, 2011 02:56 PM ET | 0

The future is here at CeBIT, the world’s top tech fair in Hanover, Germany. Read more

Milky Way Stuffed with 50 Billion Alien Worlds

Posted by Ian O'Neill Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:17 PM ET | 0

Using Kepler observations, an estimate of the number of exoplanets populating our galaxy has been made. Read more

TED-X Caltech Pays Tribute to Feynman

Posted by Jennifer Ouellette Tue Jan 18, 2011 01:40 PM ET | 0

At a recent Caltech conference, there was a celebration of the human urge to explore our world and find things out. There were also bongos. Read more

UFOs Spying on Our Nukes, Airmen Claim

Posted by Jorge Ribas Tue Sep 28, 2010 04:51 PM ET | 0

Glowing red orbs dripping molten metal, giant cigar-shaped objects, and fully illuminated discs are among the descriptions of the unidentified flying objects that have been seen hovering over nuclear weapon sites for the last 65 years. These... Read more

Wake Up and Smell the Science, Hollywood!

Posted by Ian O'Neill Tue Feb 23, 2010 06:37 PM ET | 0

The cast of The Core, looking baffled by bad science. Neutrinos? You're going to kill the Earth using... neutrinos?! That was the thought echoing through my brain during the November 2009 screening of Roland Emmerich's disaster orgy, 2012. However, I... Read more

Wake Up and Smell the Science, Hollywood!

Planet Definition Doesn't Apply Beyond Solar System

Posted by Ray Villard Tue Jan 26, 2010 03:03 AM ET | 0

Imagine living on a South Pacific island and naming all aquatic life in your lagoon “fish.” But your definition was so specific it didn’t apply to whatever creatures lived in the rest of the ocean. This is what the International ... Read more

Planet Definition Doesn't Apply Beyond Solar System

Will Earth 'Be Wiped Out' by a Supernova?

Posted by Ian O'Neill Wed Jan 6, 2010 04:16 PM ET | 0

It's very easy to get worried when you hear that a star could explode "with the force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT" and the explosion is going to detonate so close to us that it "could strip ... Read more

Will Earth 'Be Wiped Out' by a Supernova?

Honoring Science and the Arts

Posted by Jennifer Ouellette Tue Jan 5, 2010 12:56 AM ET | 0

There's a lot of breaking space-related news coming out of the American Astronomical Society meeting this week in Washington, DC, but one that caught my attention -- for personal as well as professional reasons -- was a special public lecture ... Read more