Stories by Clara Moskowitz

Re-creating conditions on the sun’s surface inside a laboratory plasma chamber, scientists find surprising insights into solar outbursts

The Cassini probe readies for its final act with new flight patterns that will get unprecedented views of Saturn and culminate in a final dive into the planet's atmosphere. Clara Moskowitz reports   

 

A galaxy four billion light-years from us was has three supermassive black holes at its center, with two in a tight formation. Clara Moskowitz reports

Mysterious light at the center of the milky way could be our first look at dark particles

A new run at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 could show whether the Higgs boson matches the Standard Model of particle physics or opens the door to new theories

The European Southern Observatory broke ground June 19th to build the world's largest telescope atop the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile. Clara Moskowitz reports   

 

Thinking of space and time as a liquid might help reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity
 

The current solar maximum appears to be weak. But the few previously measured maxes could have been unusually strong. Clara Moskowitz reports   

 

New observations of a behemoth collision reveal extreme physical forces at work
 

NEW YORK—When it came to relationships, Albert Einstein was no Einstein. In fact, the famous genius's romantic entanglements could rival the dysfunction of a typical Jerry Springer guest.

A failed dwarf galaxy called the Smith Cloud apparently survived an ancient collision with the Milky Way because of a protective dark matter cloak. Clara Moskowitz reports   

 

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

In a Q&A biographer Lynn Sherr explains the public and personal sides of the notoriously private Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, which she chronicles in a new book

Waves on Titan indicate bodies of liquid methane may be home to life

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Two astronomers recall almost mistaking light from the big bang for pigeon droppings

Hubble, Kepler, Chandra and other orbiting observatories got reprieves, but the Spitzer mission may be canceled
 

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, once estimated to be 41,000 kilometers across, is just 16,500 kilometers wide in the latest Hubble Space Telescope observations, and the shrinkage seems to be accelerating. Clara Moskowitz reports
 

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

NASA and Russia’s good relationship in space may sour over Ukraine crisis
 

Conflicting results in measurements of how long neutrons live has physicists rethinking their experiments, because solving the riddle may point the way to exotic new physics

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