Astrophysics

                In about a month’s time, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft will adjust its orbit and dip into the outer venusian atmosphere.

Kepler will rely on solar radiation pressure to balance its compromised pointing ability in order to make observations of targets in the plane of Earth's orbit

One of the most fundamental but elusive constituents of the cosmos could soon be cornered
 

When a white dwarf passes in front of its binary star system companion every 88 days, it acts like a lens to make the larger star appear brighter to us.

 

The detection of a runaway star may explain how a massive object turned into a dense, magnetic magnetar instead of collapsing into a black hole

The star cluster HVGC-1 had been part of the M87 galaxy, but now it's fleeing that galaxy at more than two million miles per hour. Clara Moskowitz reports

 

Live streaming video by Ustream It doesn’t get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).

Traces of primordial gravitational waves could tell us how and when the early universe went through its precipitous expansion

Data from the damaged spacecraft reveal new worlds

Astronomers hope that one day soon we’ll obtain a spectrum of light that might tell us whether or not an Earth-sized exoplanet harbors life.

This morning I appeared on the nation’s number-one-rated morning show, Fox and Friends. Afterwards I tweeted out a few things that have garnered some attention, including this: Fox & Friends producer wanted to talk about future trends.