
30 under 30: Exploring String Theory to Figure Out How Things Work
Meet Ioannis Florakis, 29, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

30 under 30: Exploring String Theory to Figure Out How Things Work
Meet Ioannis Florakis, 29, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

30 under 30: A Radio Astronomer Investigating Galaxy Evolution
Meet Jacinta Delhaize, 25, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting


30 under 30: An Astronomer Tracing the Universe's History
Meet Eduard Rusu, 27, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

30 under 30: A Passion for Early-Universe Cosmology and Epic Bike Trips
Meet Laurence Perreault Levasseur, 24, one of the up-and-coming physicists attending this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Transit of Venus
The Venus transit offers a chance for modern-day stargazers to repeat the experiments conducted by expeditions around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries--with a modern twist

Live Chat: The 2012 Transit of Venus, with SA Editor George Musser
Musser, who covers space for SA, will help us prepare to watch Tuesday's transit and explain the science behind this rare astronomical event

Iron in the Fire: The Little-Star Supernovae That Could
Exploding white dwarf stars and an unexpected abundance of iron explain the chemistry of a unique star cluster

The Man Who Knew Venus Would Transit the Sun [Excerpt]
Amateur astronomer Jeremiah Horrox was the only person in England, and possibly the entire world, convinced that a Venus solar transit would occur in 1639, an event that Johannes Kepler himself had failed to predict

Vestiges of Violence: Towering Gamma-Ray Jets Point to Past Outbursts from Milky Way's Black Hole
Black hole jets had previously been detected in other galaxies, but not in ours

Australia and South Africa To Share Square-Kilometer Array Telescope
The split will eventually see South Africa receiving the majority of the project's 3,000 dishes, and Australia will host the low-frequency radio antennas

How Large Stars Die [Animation]

50 Years Ago: The First Gamma-Ray Satellite
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American