Space & Physics
Hundreds of New Exoplanets Validated by Kepler Telescope Team
A trove of 715 planets—all members of multiworld systems—joins the list of Kepler's finds
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Space & Physics
Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe
With a new approach that treats the universe as a fluid, cosmologists plan to tease out the fine details of the big bang from its behavior and evolution
Technology
X PRIZE Teams Shoot for Milestone Awards en Route to the Moon
For the first time, an X PRIZE is offering award money to participants during a competition
Space & Physics
Cosmic Mismatch Hints at the Existence of a "Sterile" Neutrino
A disagreement between observations of galaxy clusters and the cosmic background radiation could be explained by the existence of a fourth type of neutrino
The Sciences
From Gadgets to Galaxies: Conference Reports
Scientific American technology editor Seth Fletcher talks about the recent Consumer Electronics Show and astronomy editor Clara Moskowitz discusses last month's American Astronomical Society conference
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Space & Physics
"Star Wars" Planets Migrate into Position around Stellar Pairs
A research team has shed more light on how Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine could orbit two stars, which are themselves bound together in an orbital dance
Space & Physics
Wacky World Wobbles Wildly
Exoplanet Kepler 413 b's tilt can vary by as much as 30 degrees over 11 years, leading to extremely erratic seasons. Clara Moskowitz reports
Space & Physics
Stephen Hawking: "There Are No Black Holes"
The notion of an "event horizon," from which nothing can escape, is incompatible with quantum theory, Hawking says
Space & Physics
Proxima’s Unprecedented Passage: When Stars Align
The sun's closest stellar neighbor will soon reveal its mass—and possibly its planets—when it passes in front of a distant star
Space & Physics
A Star at the Edge of Eternity
A Saturn-size star just 40 light-years away will outlive nearly all of its peers
Space & Physics
New Cosmic Distance Measurement Points the Way to Elusive Dark Energy
Astronomers have measured a distance scale in the universe to unprecedented accuracy, opening the door to better tests of dark energy models than ever before
Space & Physics
Bizarre Star Could Host a Neutron Star in Its Core
Astronomers have spotted their best candidate ever for a Thorne-Zytkow object, a hybrid star proposed almost 40 years ago
Technology
Astro Drone Crowdsourcing Game
If you own a Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter, you can participate in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Astro Drone crowdsourcing game to help improve robot vision
Space & Physics
Dark Matter Near Earth Peaks Every March, New Study Suggests
The sun's gravitational pull on dark matter particles may cause seasonal patterns not previously expected
Space & Physics
Dark Matter Search Considers Exotic Possibilities
As observations fail to pin down the so-far undetectable stuff, explanations once considered fringe are now getting another look
Space & Physics
What an Exomoon Would Look Like from Earth [Video]
Moons orbiting distant planets might be visible in existing spacecraft data
Space & Physics
Weird Supernovae Spin Faster Than Blender Blades
Two recently found supernovae are much farther away and brighter than almost any star explosion ever seen, perhaps because they wound up as rapidly spinning magnetars. Clara Moskowitz reports...
The Sciences
Nature's Best Science Features of 2013
The editors of Nature picked these feature stories as the best among the magazine's longer journalistic reports of the year
Space & Physics
A Wish List of Future Space Missions
NASA's long-term vision, released by the agency's astrophysics division, restates its broad and popular themes for scientists to pursue including "Are We Alone?" and "How Did We Get Here?"...
Space & Physics
First Exomoon Possibly Glimpsed
Astronomers may have discovered a moon orbiting an alien planet, but the signal is far from definitive
