Editors' Picks
Star Trek Got Warp Speed All Wrong
Hold everything people. The blast of a star and light that happens in Star Trek when they jump to warp speed? Wrong! It wouldn't look like that at all, according to some physicists
At Night, Giant Fields of Burning Natural Gas Make North Dakota Visibile From Space
Locals have a new nickname for their state. North Dakota: "Kuwait on the Prairie"
You Can’t Throw a Rock in the Milky Way Without Hitting an Earth-Like Planet
A new estimate says there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
An Asteroid Will Skim Right By the Earth on Friday Afternoon
The 147-foot-wide rock will pass a scant 17,200 miles from Earth's surface, under the orbits of some telecom satellites
February 12, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
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Haunting images of spiral galaxy M106 and the stellar nursery of the Orion nebula capture the life cycle of stars
February 06, 2013
| By Mohi Kumar
Many newly discovered exoplanets may not be able to shed their dense hydrogen atmospheres, making them unsuitable for life
February 05, 2013
| By Mohi Kumar
To test the reaches of laser communication, NASA beamed a digital image of Leonardo da Vinci's famous portrait to a satellite orbiting the moon
January 25, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
February 2013 | By Ker Than
Tonight, night sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere can see Jupiter pass less than a finger's width away from the waxing Moon
January 21, 2013
| By Mohi Kumar
The Fisher Space Pen has been made famous by Apollo astronauts and Jerry Seinfeld. But just how does it work? And is NASA really spend millions making it?
January 11, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Set to launch in 2015, this new piece of the International Space Station is designed to be blown up like a balloon
January 17, 2013
| By Colin Schultz
Hold everything people. The blast of a star and light that happens in Star Trek when they jump to warp speed? Wrong! It wouldn't look like that at all, according to some physicists
January 17, 2013
| By Rose Eveleth
Locals have a new nickname for their state. North Dakota: "Kuwait on the Prairie"
January 18, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
Get a jet airliner's view of the surface of the Moon
January 14, 2013
| By Colin Schultz
A new estimate says there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
January 08, 2013
| By Colin Schultz
The possibility of entering a sealed aircraft, buckling up and exiting the atmosphere in the name of leisure is nearing reality
December 27, 2012
| By Alastair Bland
In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers are preparing for a new array that will stretch across 10 miles
January 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
A new study indicates that the levels of radiation astronauts would experience over the course of a deep space mission could lead to dementia
December 31, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride, Roger Boisjoly and the shuttle program form this year's late greats of space exploration
December 28, 2012
| By Mohi Kumar
From the Higgs Boson to the Curiosity rover, 2012 was a major year for science
December 14, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
January 03, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
The newly discovered quasar spews an amount of energy equivalent to more than two million suns
November 28, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The winner of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for technology hopes to launch a revolution with his spaceship and electric car
December 2012
| By Carl Hoffman
James Anderson, the winner of a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, has discovered the alarming link between climate change and ozone loss
December 2012
| By Sharon Begley
Astronomers have spotted an object roughly 100 light-years away that appears to be a planet not associated with any star
November 16, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
December 2012
| By Ker Than
44 light years away, scientists have detected a planet that might be the right temperature to hold liquid water, a precondition for life
November 08, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
